Great Basin whiptail lizard posing for me, tiny yellow flowers, curly blue ones
on a fiddlehead. John and I in a cave with two openings.
Sunset last night. This morning we went to a ranger program on Atlatls. They are
kind of a dart thrower, a precursor to the bow and arrow the native americans
used. There is a petroglyph panel in this campground with atlatls on it. The
ranger is demonstrating how to use the atlatl. There is a more modern day one
shown on the right of this photo.
John and I trying the atlatls. A fly catcher, dune primroses- the blossoms are
over 3 inches in diameter, and a cactus flower.
The current masterpiece I am working on. There is a slice of a pine cone in the
middle. I am using some stone beads that look like wood grain and I am making a
gold and copper colored bead bezel for them. John made yummy butter nut bisque
tonight. I made some home made multigrain bread. Great dinner.
Sunset tonight. This morning we went on a ranger led petroglyph walk. Here is
Chris the ranger in front of petroglyphs lecturing.
We were at Atlatl rock. There are three atlatls on the rock. The top part under
the sheep is an atlatl with the leather finger holes and below that is a dart
that the atlatl throws, the bottom part is another atlatl behind the rock.
Atlatl’s were mostly replaced with bows and arrows about 1500 years ago so these
glyphs are over 1500 years old. The petroglyphs to the right are being reclaimed
by the desert varnish. Petroglyphs are carved or pecked through the black
desert varnish to show the red under neath. They theorized that it takes at
least 3000 years for the desert varnish to form again over the petroglyphs, so
these are over 3000 years old.
These two panels are about 50 feet above the ground. One theory is that the ones
so high up deal with spiritual themes.
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