A few days ago I blogged about our tour of the Carlsbad Caverns which was a great day we enjoyed. In the afternoon we were back in the Town of Carlsbad and took in the “Living Desert”. This is a museum that is simply all about the desert, bot
h plants and animals. There is another one of these we visited last year in Palm Springs.
Here I am below checking out the metal display out front of the museum…
It included this Roadrunner catching his dinner…
This is a wild Javalina…they can be a little viscous, and we have seen them in the wild.
Can’t remember what this next one is called, but I thought it looked neat!
The black bear was quite tame…
A real nice Eagle…
Judy was checking out the cactus plants… lots of them… great afternoon overall.
OK, SO WHERE ARE THOSE ALIENS…
Everything about Roswell is ALIEN… check out these weird stores and places I found today…
I just love old VW’s… that is why I took the first one!
We toured the Museum and Research Centre below…
We had trouble finding a place to park!
Everything is ALIEN in Roswell…
Below is the equipment from the local radio station that first reported the alien landing in 1947… copies of the teletype were attached…
There is/was a lot of doubt as to whether or not this event even happened, but I don’t know what all the fuss was about … they had one of the alien’s preserved in the Museum!
Below are props from the Movie, “The Roswell Incident” that stared Charlie’ Dad, Martin Sheen.
The museum presented this pic below, as to how it actually happened!
Attached to the Museum, is a large research centre… this is only one small room of it… it had all kinds of material in it.
In the afternoon, we headed up to Roswell’s Art Gallery and passed this monument on the way, of John Chisum, who was the Cowboy of all Cowboy’s in New Mexico, holding a herd of 80,000 Long Horned Steers at one point in time!
In the art gallery, was a great presentation of Dr. Goddard’s work, as a pioneer rocket scientist. Below is an actual rocket he invented. He and his wife moved to Roswell in 1925 to do his rocket research in a safe place… as there is nothing here! His rocket fuel was gasoline, and liquid oxygen… crazy. It was real interesting. In the back ground, is all his equipment he used to make his many rockets.
They even had a chunk of moon rock here.
We did more today, but that will hit another blog soon… we will be leaving here tomorrow and seeing which way the wind blows before we leave!
Till tomorrow…
interesting tour of the town of Roswell!!..glad your didn't get taken for a ride in a UFO!!
ReplyDeleteWe had such fun in Rosewell when we visited last year... Looks like you did too!
ReplyDeleteHave fun & Travel safe
Donna
very interesting tour...looks like you had a busy interesting day to say the least :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great tour of Roswell! We didn't have time to stop there a few years ago so it was great to see all that we missed.
ReplyDeleteKeep an eye out for those aliens though, they could be following you!