16 November ‘06
Well, I have to “eat my words”… I said Ehrenberg didn’t have anything to offer other than being close to Quartzsite…well I was wrong. Wednesday I was talking with our neighbor and he told us of this ancient site up in the hills to the north. In 1931, a local pilot discovered 2 huge figures outstretched across the desert, on the terraces above the Colorado River. The archaeologists called these figures “geoglyphs”. After a 12 mile drive out California 95 from Blythe, we came to a dirt road that took us another ½ mile to the first design. These “designs” are separated by 200 hundred yards from each other. The first design is a man, 105.6 feet from head to tow. With his arms outstretched we’re looking at 92 feet…now that is a “man”. The other figure was “either a lion or a horse”, but the archaeologists just aren’t sure. Amazing designs and also amazing that they are still here. They were just made by scraping away the desert gravels or tramped into the desert pavement forming an indented image.
Blythe Intaglios
Well, I have to “eat my words”… I said Ehrenberg didn’t have anything to offer other than being close to Quartzsite…well I was wrong. Wednesday I was talking with our neighbor and he told us of this ancient site up in the hills to the north. In 1931, a local pilot discovered 2 huge figures outstretched across the desert, on the terraces above the Colorado River. The archaeologists called these figures “geoglyphs”. After a 12 mile drive out California 95 from Blythe, we came to a dirt road that took us another ½ mile to the first design. These “designs” are separated by 200 hundred yards from each other. The first design is a man, 105.6 feet from head to tow. With his arms outstretched we’re looking at 92 feet…now that is a “man”. The other figure was “either a lion or a horse”, but the archaeologists just aren’t sure. Amazing designs and also amazing that they are still here. They were just made by scraping away the desert gravels or tramped into the desert pavement forming an indented image.
Blythe Intaglios