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Beymer Water Recreation Park, Lakin KS

Camped at Beymer Water Recreation Park, Lakin KS, May 4, 2010
Camped at Beymer Water Recreation Park, Lakin KS, May 4, 2010

Beymer Water Recreation Park is an older County park about 4 miles south of Lakin KS offering a few sites with electric and water. It's quiet and clean with several stocked fish ponds enjoyed by the local residents, hatted and feathered.

Beymer Water Recreation Park, Lakin KS

Nights I've camped here

Alex Can Spell

Not very long ago, Dr. Pepperberg began trying to teach Alex and another gray parrot, Griffin, to sound out phonemes, which are the sounds that letters and letter combinations represent. English has forty phonemes altogether. She and her colleagues wanted to see if the birds understood that words are made out of letters that could be recombined to make other words, so they started training the birds with magnetic refrigerator letters.

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