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We spent the night near Idaho Falls and visited Pauline's Uncle Jeff. We also saw Vince Haley (formerly Elder Haley) in Rexburg, then were on our way. One of my research students (Mitch Jones) recommended that we stop by Mesa Falls between Rexburg and Yellowstone. It was cool! There is a really nice boardwalk path that takes you right to the brink of the falls. You can see the water just disappearing over the edge:

There was a sweet rainbow going on! Made us even happier. :-)






Then, we walked on the boardwalk around the edge of the waterfall, so we could see the fall itself:

Very pretty!

Here's the view looking downstream from the falls. I think there's another water fall lower down, but we didn't take the time to walk there.

Next, Pauline's uncle recommended we stop by "Big Spring". It's a fairly quiet, secluded place where a stream emerges from the ground. An interesting guy (Johnny Sack) had built a cabin here and lived on the property as a hunter/trapper back in the early 20th century. That's his house on the left, which is open to the public. The small house on the right ran a water wheel, which if I recall correctly powered his house.

Here is a cute little critter who popped up out of the ground and looked at us:

We originally walked the wrong way to get to the house, and came across this sign, saying "You're doing it wrong." So I took Leslie and Emily's picture.

...and Pauline took my picture as I took theirs.

We saw a rare blue heron!

Isn't that a nice pose he struck?
Here's a close up on the water wheel house, from the opposite angle.