Waco Tx

3/21/2017

Spent a couple days in Waco to visit friends and see if it's as nice a town as it looks on TV.

We had a nice campsite at Midway Park, a Corp Engineers campground on Lake Waco.

One of our favorite  excursions was the Waco Mammoth National Monument.  Back in 1978 two teenagers, looking for arrow heads, stumbled across one of the most significant archaeological finds in the country. The resulting dig by Baylor University uncovered a nursery herd of Colombian Mammoths that perished in a single natural event over 65,000 years ago. Here's some pictures from inside the climate controlled "dig shelter"...

Image at upper left is life size.

Complete skeleton of male Columbia Mammoth

Colombian Mammoth is the largest.

Scientist believe Camels were the watch dogs for the eye sight challenged Mammoth herd. In return the Mammoths protected the camels from Saber Tooth Cats whose remains were also found in the dig. 

Waco did appear to be a nice medium size town in the "Hart of Texas".  The "HGTV Fixer Upper" show has definitely had a positive effect on the community. There's plenty for the outdoor enthusiast including Cameron Park, and a series of Corp of Engineers campgrounds around lake Waco. 

We enjoyed our time in Waco and would return again

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