May 03, 2008 - Terre Haute IN
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Google Maps is not always right
Maybe I'll begin calling it Goofle Maps, the typo I just made. Today I found for the second time on my way back east that Google has some Wal-Marts located incorrectly on their map. This time they missed by 10 miles, placing Wal-Mart's Terre Haute store about 5 miles north of I-70 rather than 5 miles south of I-70 which I think is correct. But I don't know for sure - I gave up the search and settled in at the local Cracker Barrel for the night.
Night camp:
Cracker Barrel Restaurant parking lot, Terre Haute, Indiana
Crayfish Chimney
Late one afternoon I sat upon my camera case beside the path where it wound through the darkest part of the woods, down near the pond, and watched a crayfish building his "chimney," the land entrance to his underwater tunnel. He had just started to work above the ground when I first arrived. He came up through the moist black earth, carrying a ball of it between his two enormous fighting claws. Using the claws as hands, he spread the soil around the hole to form the base of the chimney. He then backed down the hole and after several minutes came up with another armful.