Tanner’s Travels

At 11,861 acres making it Alabama’s largest state park. It was beautiful! We did enjoy our couple of days escaping the snow and cold down south. Which makes zero sense. Going north to escape the cold?

We did some hiking to the top of one of the mountains in search of a waterfall.

Gotta love Anth. He’s a goof.

We went and had a once in a lifetime personal tour ( no one else was there ) of the Rickwood caverns. Tanner got to climb around underneath the cavern and we got to see some really cool fossils, bats and formations we’ve never seen in any other cavern before! Which the rickwood caverns are mostly brought to you by a bunch of 13year old Boy Scouts!

Of course I had to google what it was and it’s actually called “holocephalans, a group of fishes that split off from sharks about 400 million years ago.”

You can also see that this picture has fossilized coral reef in it!

The little coil like pieces are called crinoids. Pieces from “sea lilies”

Just more proof I guess that this all was once an ocean. We live in a wondrous place!

We didn’t see any in the water area.. but they had some in a tank for us to see. These are blind cave fish. They literally have no eyes! How cool! Freaky… but cool.

We ended our trip visiting a sweet little sandwich spot about 5 minutes away.

It did not disappoint!

Comes connected to an ice cream shop and a thrift shop that reminded me of my childhood “momma” Kristen. It had such cute bohemian finds.

10/10 recommend a stop here.

Well till next time. We love you all. Thanks for coming along. -The Miller Family