Saturday we went to Tuscaloosa to check out the city - we drove through the University Of Alabama campus - this is a very beautiful campus with impressive architecture. We went to the Alabama Museum Of Natural Science which was pretty good - not a lot of variety of displays but they had some interesting pieces.
The Museum Building
12,500 Year Old Woolly Mammoth Skull from Wisconsin
25,000 Year Old Meteorite Fragment Fom Winslow, Arizona
Radio Damaged By The Hodges Meteorite - In 1954 a meteorite crashed through the roof of the home of Ann Hodges of Oak Grove, Alabama. The meteorite struck the radio pictured below and then struck her - the only recorded incident of a meteorite striking a person
Mastodon skull found near Demopolis, Alabama
35 million year old Sirenian skeleton found in South Carolina
Mosasauer Skeleton Found In Alabama
Basilosaurus cetoides - The state fossil of Alabama - this is a replica of the Eocene era whale
After the museum we went to the Tuscaloosa River Walk (about 4 miles down and back) - the following pics were from there.
The site where Tuscaloosa was surrendered to the North during the Civil War
Typical barge used on the Black Warrior and Tombigbee Rivers
A pair of work boats used to push the barges up and down the river
The Bama Belle excursion paddle boat
The Bama Belle departing for a luncheon cruise
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