Here are some photos of some of the great sites you can enjoy at Devil’s Lake State Park. Here is a photo of the lake. Check out the sailboat in the background! This is where we first stopped off after entering through the gate.
We then drove around a bit aimlessly until we ended up outside of the park. We looped around and decided to go through the other entrance. Here, we found a designated beach area with a rather large parking lot. We were confused about where the trailheads we wanted were located, so we just got out and walked around. It didn’t take long before we found the trailhead to the Devil’s Gate and some other sites. Here is a large boulder we found along the way that the boys climbed up.
And here are the boys exploring a rock formation that formed a bit of a cave.
Along the way, you will get some great views of the hills. Check out the rocks in the background. Those are the “stairs” you will climb along the way.
You will also get some great views of the lake.
Here is my husband and my two oldest boys walking down to the Devil’s Gate rock formation. The twins are going down there too, but you can’t see them in the photo.
Here is Kieran triumphantly standing in front of Devil’s gate. Check out the cool view of the hills and the lake below.
Here are some photos of what you can expect to see at Storybook Gardens and Timbavati Wildlife Park in Wisconsin Dells.
Here, you can see some of the ducks. There are plenty of ducks all over the park – and they love to be fed!
Here’s a nice water fountain that made for a nice photo backdrop.
This is one of the feeding platforms where you can feed the giraffes. This was a male. To the right of were this pictur is taken, there is another feeding platform that had a female and a young giraffe.
Here are the other two giraffes posing for a picture with my son.
Here is the “Old Woman who lived in the shoe” statue I mentioned in the previous post. You can see here that the quality of the statues really isn’t the best.
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I didn’t get a whole lot of photos of the Duck and Speedboat tours, since I didn’t want to risk getting my camera wet, but here are a few.
In this one, you can kind of see what the Duck looks like in the background. You will see these Ducks in town, too, as they will actually pick tourists up and take them to board a Duck ride if they are interested.
Here we are out on the water. I guess my son is a tad bit cold!
Here is one of the rock formations. When you get closer, you will see all of the nest that the birds have made inside and around the cave.
Here, you can see how soaked the kids got and you can also see one of the speedboats in the background.
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Here are some photos from my stay at the Kalahari while at Wisconsin Dells.
This is a view of the outdoor water park from the balcony of our room. This one shows the pools and gives you an idea of what the resort looks like.
Here, you can get a better idea of what the slides look like at the outdoor park.
An elephant is the symbol of the Kalahari resort. Just outside of the outdoor waterpark is a statue of one that makes for a nice photo opp.
My digital doesn’t take the best of photos when indoors, but here is a shot of the indoor play area that the twins spent most of there time at. One of them is playing peek-a-boo in this one!
One neat feature of the waterpark is the boogie-board simulator. Check out the look on my son’s face! (He was the only one brave enough to give it a try!).
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Since I have been doing all of this talking about some of the places I visited in the Great Smoky Mountains, I thought I should start sharing some photos of the sites I have been discussing. I’ll start off with the Ripley’s Aquarium in Gatlinburg.
Here is one of my son (age 7 at the time) inside of the “aquarium” exhibit. This one never fails to put a smile on my face:
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