We left Keystone early and drove through the Badlands National Park. It is called Badlands because of the landscape.
It does look really weird, with random sharp peaked hills. But it's interesting how they are layered with the colours of different deposits. Water erosion washes some away, leaving this landscape. There are lots of fossils found here.
We were heading to Pollock to meet the Jack, who is the cheese factory manager at the Dairy Concepts cheese plant there. On the way Richard decided to take a dirt road. It was quite bumpy, and luckily only about 12 miles long. Along the way we came across some cowboys!
When we got to Pollock we got our fishing licences, $16.52 for the day. Jack and his son Ben took us fishing on the reserviour in their skeeter with a 225hp motor on the back. Boy could that move along. The weather wasn't great, bit of a cold wind and starting to rain near the end. But it was fun to be fishing. We were fishing for Walleye. It was different fishing to what I'd ever done before, but I still caught the biggest fish!! Richard and Jack caught one keeper each too. Ben was the deck hand, and didn't get much fishing done in between passing bait, re-tying lines, and using the net to get the fish in the boat (they get off the hook easy). Richard probably caught the most, but they had to be longer than 15 inches, so alot got thrown back.
Back on shore, Jack filletted the fish with an electric knife hooked up to the car battery (Richard wants one!). The fish heads and skins went in a garbage disposal at the fish filleting table. Very handy. We went to a local pub where they cooked it up for us, legend! It was beautiful, and went down very well with a couple of drinks. Unfortunately Jack and Ben had a dinner date to get to, so couldn't stay too long with us there.
Ben took a photo of us with our fish, with Jack's phone. So when he e-mails it too us I'll add it to the blog.
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