Once we got to Green River I reminded John the last couple times we have been here I wanted to see the local petroglyph sites and he always said we’ll do it next time. This was next time.
We started by going to Black Dragon Canyon. Layered colors on hills and canyon walls.
Detour double IPA. A bee hive in a canyon wall, petroglyphs at the Black Dragon site. The last one is the ‘Black Dragon’. In the early 1900’s someone thought it was a black dragon and it meant that people say pterodactyls. It was later proved with scientific methods that this was in fact 5 different figures that when exposed to water and weather changed into this shape. So no black dragons in Black Dragon canyon. Rock formations.
Flowers and erosion. Cool clouds and red skyline.
More clouds and rock formations. Utah has wonderful colors and shapes.
Man walking dog, mosern petroglyphs, this looks like the black dragon, see the head in the lower right?, some theorize that these hash marks are a calender. More hash marks, natural glyph, mud hands and poison ivy.
Me with the mushroom rock. Looking back at Black Dragon canyon. It is in the San Rafael Reef, an eroded fold in the earths crust.
We were treated to a rainbow on our drive to the Sego Canyon site. The first one was kind of ragged, but it morphed into a really bright double rainbow.
Evening light as we entered Sego Canyon. Clematis seed heads, glyphs from the Sego site.
One of many panels in Sego Canyon. A couple detailed Sego glyphs.
Another Sego canyon panel. All the petroglyphs had bullet holes in them. Boo. We could see the sunset on Castle Valley up by the La Sal mountains across the valley.
Sunset near Thompson Springs, Utah. The bus at the Shady Acres RV park in Green River.
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