Badlands

Badlands The next stop was the Badlands. This area used to be a shallow sea and that is what made all the beautiful rock formations that can be seen today. We arrived here in the middle of the day and it was super hot, the hottest it had been since we arrived. Catt dropped us off at the visitor centre and we all had a mooch around I bought some souvenirs and read about the history of the area. I also discovered it's inhabited by rattle snakes :0 Catt was picking us up a bit later on to hike through the formations. We all slapped on sun cream and filled our water bottles and waited for her to pick us up. We went and got out of the car and walked to a view point to take some pictures then headed out to the trail. Not going to lie Becky and I were quite scared but we powered on anyway. It was amazing! The Sioux tribe (Native Americans) used to live around the Badlands and they named it so as the weather is crazy hot one minute and thunderstorms the next, that is exactly what happened to us. We had to cut out trek short as it suddenly became very windy and a thunder storm was starting to make it's way to us. We got to the campsite and my dream of being a Native American was over. As I walked around the Badlands I was sort of imagining myself as a Native American! We quickly set up camp and Amy, Becky, Helen and I sat in our tent and had a beer while we waited for Bolognese to be cooked. The weather wasn't great and it soon began to rain :0 I ate my bolognese in the rain as quickly as possible because it was my groups turn to wash up and I wanted to get it done ASAP because there was no sink, this means we have to do it in boxes outside. We collected everyone's plates and began to wash up. I was washer, Zara was dryer and Becky and Nick dried and put away. We were washing up on the bench and it happened to be undercover so everyone joined us and we started signing lots of cheesy songs like JoJo, Leave get out! As we sung we watched the lightening it was really pretty in a strange way. In the end I went to bed early because my ribs were hurting. I think it was because of sitting in the van for so long :0 it was good job though because we were up at 5am the next day to watch the sun rise over the Badlands. We left the campsite at 5.20 an headed to the viewpoint from the previous day. Firstly I saw It was very cloudy so I wasn't too impressed with the actual sunrise itself but it looked so nice at dawn. I took lots of pictures. We zoomed back to camp and had breakfast, changed packed and headed onwards to Devils Tower.