God rays over Ozena Valley, taken from Hwy 33. |
Burn a tank of gas, do some off-trail, take a bunch of pictures. I spent much of the morning exploring some canyon country near New Cuyama. There is a pictograph site in the area and I stopped by to get some pictures before exploring up a near by rocky and cave riddled branch canyon. Found some odd stuff.
After that I drove east to Lockwood Valley and looked up another small pictograph site in the vicinity. I'm taking the lazy way out here and going with pictures and captions.
Outside New Cuyama I found three weird, but obviously man-made holes. Only one of them was large enough to be able to squeeze inside. |
This is the largest and deepest of the man-made caves I found. It only goes in about 12 feet. |
This was my favorite image from this first of two pictograph sites for the day. |
A badlands ridge, taken from Lockwood Valley Rd. |
Mt Pinos from Dome Springs. |
This neat pictograph comes from the second rock art site of the day. He's commonly referred to as "Quail Man" because of his jaunty forward facing top feather. |
Quail Man and El Sol |
I thought this was a pretty panel of rock. |
That door is indeed fascinating....
ReplyDeleteA Few Theories:
- Joaquin Murrieta's Famed Hidden Treasure!!!!
or
- Someone went a bit overboard on geocaching.
or
- None of the above (I'm going with this one)
BTW - "Quail Man".....Pretty cool picto, with some nice colors.
Michael