They promised us cave art, honestly they did, but we were blind to it. We saw graffiti aplenty, and it left us wondering how old graffiti must be to qualify as "art". 1954?
1929?
1916?
It'll have to do, because we never saw the drawings illustrated on the display. We enjoyed the walk anyway.
I thought the turtle rocks were interesting:
The Younger Son saw a copperhead snake on this hike, and all I saw was another blue-tailed skink and some birds. I was jealous!
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I´ve never seen a pictograph, to my knowledge, that would be fun. Can´t they restore them, re-inforce them, like they do with that withering da Vinci in Milano? Seems sad to just watch it go.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they were there and we just couldn't see them. I wish they would apply helpful arrow markers near by: -> cave painting here -> lol
DeleteI am not jealous of your son's copperhead sighting. Not at all. I can live my whole life without seeing one and be happy. I don't much care for snakes.
ReplyDeleteDarla
This, I think, was his first. I've seen them a couple of times before, always in Arkansas. I guess it was his turn. I've always liked snakes.
DeleteI am SO far behind visiting, and of course, I had to stop by and see this post. I was super impressed with the turtle rocks, but sad the cave paintings were seemingly non-existent.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a copperhead, but have seen (and hunted) rattlesnakes back in the day when they were overrunning a few Oklahoma towns. It seems we (people like me) hunted them to near extinction in that area. I'm practically ashamed to admit it, but for two years I joined others in catching, but not killing, them.
The out-cropping or whatever it it called (top photo to the left of first turtle rocks montage) reminded me of southern Missouri. Seems that entire area is very similar, but all is beautiful.
It's so different there in the Arkansas/Missouri mountains. The delta area here has no rock formations at all, much less such varied ones.
DeleteI'm sure the cave paintings were there, but we needed an interpreter or cave-paintings-for-idiots signage ;).