Thursday, May 5, 2011 - North Platte NE
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Layers, Alcova Reservoir, Alcova WY, May 2, 2011
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in North Platte NE
Walmart Supercenter Store #1585, 1401 S Dewey St, North Platte, NE 69101 - (308) 532-5529
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service- good
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - good signal - service a bit slow
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
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.