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| Central Beach at Indiana Dunes (notice the ominous Michigan City cooling tower lurking in the background) |
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| Bennett was happily batted about by the waves |
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| Nice middle part |
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| Bennett giving up on burying Lincoln half way to burrow down himself |
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| Commence honey application and fire ant release |
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| Bennett and Tracey constructed a sandcastle with an elaborate moat system |
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| Bennett added the shells (and random driftwood splinters) as the finishing touch(es) |
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| Bennett learns a harsh lesson about planting a wet face into sand |
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| Hiking the Dune Ridge trail in the evening |
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| The trail traversed forested dunes (further back off the beach) |
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| Shot from the peak (notice The Great Marsh lurking ominously in the background) |
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| Breakfast at the Great Marsh observation deck (after being assailed by a gang of horseflies on the hike to it) |
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| Somebody pooped their pants during breakfast |
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| Next hike was along the Cowles Bog trail (actually a fen, not a bog...we didn't know the difference before, either) |
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| Not pictured: the salamanders discovered further down the trail |
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| Henry Cowles, the 'Father of Ecology', studied extensively the ecosystems at Indiana Dunes |
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| Joseph Bailly homestead (early frontier settler in Northwest Indiana) |
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| Bailly traded with American Indians on the Little Calumet River in his front yard |
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| Our final hike was the trail through Miller Woods. We found some interesting critters... |
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| ...like this crayfish wandering on the path... |
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| ...and this large yellow caterpillar |
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| Returning the crayfish to his pond |
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| Sea of cattails |
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| Bennett looking for the crayfish in the pond through the cracks |
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| Our last adventure was exploring the Nature Play Zone at the Paul Douglas Environmental Learning Center |
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| We saw a deer and several lizards |
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| Bennett scaled all the boulders lying around |
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| Not Indiana Dunes, but Lincoln requested this amazing piece of playground equipment be shoehorned in this post |
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| Lincoln and Bennett roamed through the undeveloped York-High Ridge Forest Preserve a few days before Lincoln left for 2 months |
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