Hello all,
We spent yesterday afternoon 4 wheeling and hiking over lava flows in the Mojave National Preserve looking for rock art and generally enjoying the beautiful warm weather.
My wife Andrea, muttering something about me hogging the camera last month at the Grand Canyon, confiscated our Nikon and wandered off by herself. Now in my defense I only made a mere 771 shutter actuations during the entire four days of our stay at the South Rim -- that's hardly abusive in my book.
Anyway, here is an interesting series showing a small snake guarding the rock art location. This is a huge petroglyph site with literally hundreds of images carved or scraped into the volcanic rocks and many of them described wiggly snakes (see the bottom of the first frame). While there was lots of speculation amongst our group as to what many of the images meant I was pretty sure someone from the past was definitely saying "Hey, check it out, there are snakes here!"
Anybody know what type of snake this little guy is?
Jerry
We spent yesterday afternoon 4 wheeling and hiking over lava flows in the Mojave National Preserve looking for rock art and generally enjoying the beautiful warm weather.
My wife Andrea, muttering something about me hogging the camera last month at the Grand Canyon, confiscated our Nikon and wandered off by herself. Now in my defense I only made a mere 771 shutter actuations during the entire four days of our stay at the South Rim -- that's hardly abusive in my book.
Anyway, here is an interesting series showing a small snake guarding the rock art location. This is a huge petroglyph site with literally hundreds of images carved or scraped into the volcanic rocks and many of them described wiggly snakes (see the bottom of the first frame). While there was lots of speculation amongst our group as to what many of the images meant I was pretty sure someone from the past was definitely saying "Hey, check it out, there are snakes here!"
Anybody know what type of snake this little guy is?
Jerry
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