This is one of the petrified llogs. All of the trees that were there 200 million years ago were turned into stones. Some of them were huge!! The outside of a lot of them just looked back or brown but the inside werem quartz or ither stones and were white, red or other colors.
Also in the area were rocks with petroglyphs on them. Petroglyphs were images carved into stones by the native people that lived there 1000s of years ago. The images are still visible on some of the rocks.
The landscapes were unlike anything we've seen and hard to describe. The pictures don't even do it justice!
Just gorgeous! Did you have a park ranger as a guide,or did you just walk around with a map?
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures with you guys in them.
ReplyDeleteNO park ranger...it is actually a 28 mile drive...you can't get lost and as you drive along, there are stop off points. SOme are just look outs, other have trails.
ReplyDeleteMeredith: Thanks!
see lauren ur ahead of the game with those pix. on ur to do list you can check off Christmas pictures done( and its not even December 16 yet
ReplyDeleteI posted a comment yesterday, but it looks like it didn't come through. I was looking at the drawings on the rocks and wondering if that was their way of letting the tribe know who was going to be in charge of the smoke signals. Ha, ha! The pictures of the Painted Desert are pretty.
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