"Show Me" Tour - Rock Bridge State Park

Breakfast at 9 in the morning is quite a civilized meal, so that is how we began our Friday mid-morning. Grant picked us up and took us to Cafe Berlin.  Sue ordered the pancake tacos, I had to chose between the Rebel and the Union, and I am a Union-man, so I got browned potatoes along with my bacon and eggs.  I drew a 'dillo cartoon with the caption "Dillo-licous vittles" on the blank spaces inside the book that came with the tab.  Our waiter picked up the tab, complimented me on the drawing, saying it was very good, thus earning a fatter tip.

Grant had class project obligations from late morning through mid-day, so we geological-nerd parents were naturally attracted to anything that had the name "Rock" in it.  We found ourselves at Rock Bridge Memorial State park just a few miles south of Columbia.  We hiked the 'Sinkhole Trail', wound down the hillside to the 'Devil's Icebox' and then up and over the 'Rock Bridge' and back to the car.  A pleasant Spring time jaunt through the woods, soon to be leafed out.

One of the characters we met along
the Sinkhole Trail

We were serandaded along the trail

The Devils Icebox
A stream that flows from a cave under a limestone outcrop

The stream flows out from under on side of the Devil's Icebox
and then flows into the other side.
We are peering into what was once a subterranean stream 
coursing through a cavern system, but this portion of the 
cave roof collapsed, creating "The Devil's Icebox"

A few Red Bud blossoms
at mouth of "The Devil's Icebox" cave

We cross over the Rock Bridge
returning to our carriage