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One day at the Hobbs Conservation National Park - Arkansas

Week end with Mithra, Uma and Keiran

sunny 30 °C

Hobbs Conservation National Park in Arkansas organises a lot of events thorughout the week and we decided to go today as they had 3 activities we enjoyed, all for free: historic Van Winkle Trail in the morning, multi diversity trail at 1pm and a Beaver lake cruise at 3 pm....

On the way to the park we rescued a turtle that was trying to cross the road!!!!
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The walk in the morning was interesting and short enough so the kids did not get too bored. It takes you where Van Winkle built his first mill powered by oxes. He was the first man to be known to use slaves as labour in a factory environment instead of agricultural fields... The walk shows you the different buildings that made up the site ....

The kids had fun:
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These are the few things we saw : Teo is sitting on the original toilet, the white flowers are the dogwood tree and are just beautiful in spring, the red flowers are from the paw paw tree which produces a delicious fruit at the end of summer, the tree with the kind of spider web is in fact house for a lot of caterpillars that will come out during the summer.
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Some pictures of Uma and Kieran
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Posted by ealonso 07:21 Archived in USA Tagged park historical trail van conservation arkansas winkle hobbs

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