Spent time today at the La Brea Tar Pits.
http://www.tarpits.org/ Brea is Spanish for 'tar', so I guess we went to 'The Tar Tar Pits' :) Over the centuries, the animals that were trapped in the tar have been preserved, and the millions of bones are on display in the museum.
We timed our visit well, managing to avoid a school excursion of smelly kids just as we were leaving. We wandered around Mid-Wiltshire, a groovy dining and shopping district, before heading home for a swim.
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| Fully preserved skeleton of a ground sloth |
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| Getting a lesson in surface area/surface tension from museum volunteer |
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| Cool dudes! Captain Smooth and Captain Grin |
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| The pit was awesome! Mind you we wouldn't want to fall in - apparently that asphalt doesn't wash out ... and a saber toothed cat might eat you whilst you are stuck in the tar! |
