It is strange to think that the area you live in and are accustom to can be such a place of breathtaking beauty to someone who is visiting. One of those areas is Between Moab, UT and the Arizona border. I know some people who have their residence in the area. They have every chance and opportunity to see all the great and wondrous things there are to see down there. They have been to many places many times down there, but the biggest shock is comes to visitors.
Continuing below are photos I took in the areas between Monticello and Bluff, UT. Some things you will see are ancient ruins, petroglyphs, ancient pottery and tool fragments, landscapes, rock formations, and lizards. All this we saw in one day, among other things and places.
I can write more about all of it but I don't want to distract from the photos. If you have any questions ask in the comment section or email me. There are captions to the photos to give a little information,
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| Water fowl (I imagine goose) tracks on around Recapture Reservoir near Blanding, UT |
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| Water of Recapture Reservoir from an outcropping of rock |
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| Recapture Reservoir Panorama with Abajo Peak and West Mountain in the distance. |
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| Recapture Reservoir shore |
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| Recapture Reservoir, West Mountain, and my lovely wife. |
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| A lizard we saw that was going to a pooled rain water for a drink. |
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| Wife in a natural double-arch-cave-hole |
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| From inside the natural double-arch-cave-hole looking out the hole-arch. |
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| Ceiling from inside of the natural double-arch-cave-hole |
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| Floor and wall from inside inside the natural double-arch-cave-hole |
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| Wife looking at some ruins from inside the natural double-arch-cave-hole |
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| Wife in the opening of the natural double-arch-cave-hole |
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| Wife in the opening of the natural double-arch-cave-hole |
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| Natural double-arch-cave-hole panorama |
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| Ancient ruins near Butler Wash |
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| Ancient ruins near Butler Wash |
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| Blooming prickly pear cacti |
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| Desert wild flowers |
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| View of path over the natural double-arch-cave-hole |
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| My beautiful wife crossing the natural double-arch-cave-hole (multiple images combined into one) |
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| Ancient ruins near Bluff, UT |
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| Looking at ancient ruins in canyon near Bluff, UT |
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| Ancient petroglyphs near Bluff, UT |
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| More ancient petroglyphs near Bluff, UT |
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| More ancient petroglyphs near Bluff, UT |
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| My wife taking video of ancient petroglyphs near Bluff, UT |
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| More ancient petroglyphs near Bluff, UT |
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| My wife climbing the crumbly dirt side of a canyon near Bluff, UT |
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| Lizard texture! |
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| Lizard glancing at me and my camera while sunbathing on a rock |
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| A lizard sunbathing on a rock |
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| Fun smaller rock formation |
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| Same fun rock formation with a different lizard |
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| Rock. Lizard. |
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| Antelope/goat/deer-looking ancient petroglyph |
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| My wife looking at some ancient ruins |
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| My wife and I posing in front of ancient ruins |
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| Doorway into ancient ruins |
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| Shelf-like cubby in ancient ruins |
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| Shelf-like cubby in ancient ruins |
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| Shards of ancient pottery, tools, and other rocks that when found were placed on the ruins. Look, take photos, don't take them as souvenirs. |
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| More shards of ancient pottery, tools, and other rocks |
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| More shards of ancient pottery, tools, and other rocks |
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| Close up of an ancient ruin |
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| Ancient ruin |
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| Ancient wall/shelf part of ancient ruins |
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| Inside the canyon looking up where I took the previous photo |
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| Looking up at the dirt my wife was climbing in a previous photo |
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| Inside a desert canyon panorama |
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| Panorama looking down in the same desert canyon |
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| Panorama of mesa and desert in Utah |
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| Panorama of mesa and desert in Utah - Tall |
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| Panorama - desert, mesa, canyon, and Comb Ridge |
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| Our car undercover in the desert. If you really know my car you know it looks nothing like this. I quickly changed it in photoshop for fun. Guess what the color actually is. |
