Highway 41 cruises past some prairie chickens

 

I'm hoping (seriously) to post a Highway 41 end-to-end trek post every day of the upcoming week.  I'm getting impatient to get to the good stuff just up the road.  Today in this post, a few more sites (ha) in Indiana.

Crossing of the Iroquois River, which does not look very riverish right here. It gets bigger as it flows into Illinois, eventually joining the Kankakee River.



Took a very minor detour to see what Morocco, Indiana looks like. It does not look like Morocco in Africa, but it does have a water tower that says "Morocco".



Not far from here is the Willow Slough Fish and Wildlife Area, right on the IL/IN border.

Just south of Lake Village, and just off Highway 41, is the Beaver Lake Prairie Chicken Refuge. This is what it looks like. Make sure you're looking east (white compass end to the right), because the other side of the road, which is not the refuge, looks pretty similar.   (Unfortunately, there are currently no "prairie chickens" aka pinnated grouse, in Indiana.)

 Crossing the Kankakee River, which looks much more like a river.

On the horizon in the next post: beautiful Cedar Lake.