Friday, April 27, 2012

Spring Tracks In Butler Wash


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,

Water fowl (I imagine goose) tracks on around Recapture Reservoir near Blanding, UT

Water of Recapture Reservoir from an outcropping of rock

Recapture Reservoir Panorama with Abajo Peak and West Mountain in the distance.

Recapture Reservoir shore

Recapture Reservoir, West Mountain, and my lovely wife.

A lizard we saw that was going to a pooled rain water for a drink.


Wife in a natural double-arch-cave-hole

From inside the natural double-arch-cave-hole looking out the hole-arch.

Ceiling from inside of the natural double-arch-cave-hole

Floor and wall from inside inside the natural double-arch-cave-hole

Wife looking at some ruins from inside the natural double-arch-cave-hole

Wife in the opening of the natural double-arch-cave-hole

Wife in the opening of the natural double-arch-cave-hole

Natural double-arch-cave-hole panorama

Ancient ruins near Butler Wash

Ancient ruins near Butler Wash

Blooming prickly pear cacti

Desert wild flowers

View of path over the natural double-arch-cave-hole

My beautiful wife crossing the natural double-arch-cave-hole (multiple images combined into one)

Ancient ruins near Bluff, UT

Looking at ancient ruins in canyon near Bluff, UT

Ancient petroglyphs near Bluff, UT

More ancient petroglyphs near Bluff, UT

More ancient petroglyphs near Bluff, UT

My wife taking video of ancient petroglyphs near Bluff, UT

More ancient petroglyphs near Bluff, UT

My wife climbing the crumbly dirt side of a canyon near Bluff, UT

Lizard texture!

Lizard glancing at me and my camera while sunbathing on a rock

A lizard sunbathing on a rock

Fun smaller rock formation

Same fun rock formation with a different lizard

Rock. Lizard.

Antelope/goat/deer-looking ancient petroglyph

My wife looking at some ancient ruins

My wife and I posing in front of ancient ruins

Doorway into ancient ruins

Shelf-like cubby in ancient ruins

Shelf-like cubby in ancient ruins

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.

More shards of ancient pottery, tools, and other rocks

More shards of ancient pottery, tools, and other rocks

Close up of an ancient ruin

Ancient ruin

Ancient wall/shelf part of ancient ruins

Inside the canyon looking up where I took the previous photo

Looking up at the dirt my wife was climbing in a previous photo

Inside a desert canyon panorama

Panorama looking down in the same desert canyon

Panorama of mesa and desert in Utah

Panorama of mesa and desert in Utah - Tall

Panorama - desert, mesa, canyon, and Comb Ridge

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. 

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