July 20 Wisconsin Dells

Today was a good day. Went to Madison early to Sears to get new battery. Was in and out in 30 minutes. Back to trailer before 10:00. Then I started out to Wisconsin Dells ( there is relly a city named Wisconsin dells.) I scouted the city over. Man what a place. It puts Myrtle Beach to shame. There are more dollar type stores selling junk than I have ever seen. Itg spreads out in all directions along the highways. I bet there are 500 stores. Then on top of that there are maybe 50 motels, then about any restaurant that you can name, then there are the water parks everywhere, then several Minitature golf, on top of this are the roller coasters maybe ten, and several other kinds of attractions. I've never seen anything like it. Myrtle Beach is a small time place compared to this. I havent yet mentioned the water rides on the Wisconsin river, the ducks, two or three tour operators with bigger boats, and then the jet boat rides. I took two rides on the boats because it was a 1/2 price for the second trip. These took up the rest of today.
The first picture is of one of the duck boats that I rode on. They go on land and water. Thr tour was through seveal forest trails and in between they splashed in the river and drove around the river as a boat. It was fun.
The last time I saw some of these was in the intercoastal waterway near camp Le Jeunne. But those had 50 caliber guns mounted on the deck and they were full of armed marines. The Marines still use a craft like the duck.
It turns out that Wisconsin dells in addition to a city is an area along the Wisconsin river that was carved out be glaciers from a layered sandstone formation. Dells means flat rocks. THe last pictures of this group are of the slower boat trip up the river with some stops at a couple of spots. The second pic is a view across the river of one of the cliffs from a high spot. The third pic is of a table rock formation where the tour stopped to see a german shepard jump out to the table and back. Do you see the dog in the pic. If you do, you are seeing things, i missed the dog jump. The dog is already on the table area. The fourth and fifth pics are views of rock formations in a canyon at the second stoop on the tour. The sixth pic is the tour boaat I took, The Last pic is of a rock formation along the river. The river bank on b oth sides of the river where we were crusing is state protected forest. The scenery was beautiful.
Tomorrow I am going to try to go to Madison for some sightseeing and then there are a couple more things that I want to see in the dells area.