On our last day in St Louis, besides the Laumeier Sculpture Park, we also took a drive to the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area. It was advertised as one of the Must See sites in St Louis because you get to see the confluence of Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
It was quite a long drive into the conservation area before we reached the point where we could see the confluence and along the way, there were quite a few interesting sights and encounters.
First, there was a huge viewing platform to see out into the open fields.
There were also some pretty wildflowers around :)
Then we spotted these little frogs hopping around near the carpark.
Sonya asked Justin to catch one.
Clara tried too and it jumped right towards her and startled her a little :)
Justin finally got one in his hand.
After that scare, Clara was a little apprehensive about the frog.
But after a little coaxing, she was back to "sayang sayang" (pet pet) the frog :)
Justin let the frog go and we continued our drive to the confluence point.
Then we spotted some cranes in the river.
And wheat growing in the fields.
At the carpark to the confluence viewing area, there were many millipedes all over the ground. Sonya just wanted to have nothing to do with them because she was convinced that the millipedes will "tickle your ears".
I had expected some grand like the rivers clashing. The currents were very strong but nothing spectacular I think. What do you think of it from the photo below?
After lunch across the river in Illinois, we went to take a look at the Lewis and Clark historic site.
We had seen little cottony things flying all around and we finally found the source. They were the seeds from a tree as seen in the photo below.
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