odessa tx

jack ben rabbit and bronte

jack ben rabbit in the centre of town

odessa meteor crater museum

second crater

path through centre of crater

watch out for rattle snakes!



crazing amount of road signs

Saturday 1st October 2011

Today we had a look around Odessa Texas before we set off again.  The towns biggest draw card is a meteor crater where a meteor hit the ground about 65000 years ago.  The crater is not all that big but you can ceratianly see where it has impacted the ground.  When the meteor strike occurred it is believed that the crater was 550 feet in diameter and 100 feet deep.  The crater has filled with dirt and rocks over the years and is only about 6 feet deep.  While walking around and through the crater there are signs telling you to watch out for rattle snakes.  I spoke to the lady working in the information desk and she said they see 6 to 8 rattle snakes a month.  I really didn't want to see one on our walk.

The other attraction is an 8 foot tall jack rabbit which is named the Jack Ben Rabbit.  He sit just off Lincoln Street basically towards the centre of town and is really very cute!

Dallas is only 550 km away and we have booked two nights there.  The drive was pretty good on the freeway however the speed limit today was 70mph.  115 km/h is just not fast enough after doing 130 the prior day.  We made it to Dallas at around 6.30pm and tackled the highways.  The road network in Dallas is amazing, I thought I had seen the most amount of roads all crossing together already but here it is just amazing and the tomtom is difficult to understand with so many exits and on ramps.

one of the many criss cross of highways