240,000 acres make up the South Dakota Badlands. For centuries humans have viewed them with a mix of dread and fascination. The Lakota knew the place as 'mako sica'. Early French Trappers called the area 'les mauvaises sterres a traverser'. Both mean "bad lands". The region is breathtaking, peaks and valleys of delicately banded colors - colors that shift in the sunshine....and a thousand tints that color charts to not show. We spend this Lord's day enjoying the creation that our Lord put together. It was truly magnificent! The video and pictures do not do justice to the area. About 75 million years ago the Earth's climate was warmer than it is now, and a shallow sea covered the region called the Great Plains. Stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from western Iowa to western Wyoming. In todays badlands the bottom of that sea appears as a grayish-black sedimentation rock called Pierre shale. The layer is rich in fossils from the animals that sank to the bottom of the sea when they died.
Linda and Mike standing before the Badlands.
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