Vacation Idea #33 - Petroglyphs

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- Vacation Idea #33 -
Petroglyphs

 The photos below are from our trip to Cape Alava on the Washington coast. Rock Engravings or Petroglyphs exist all around the world and I found a great link list on Wikipedia (here) if you would like to see if there are any near you.

Left hundreds of years ago these petroglyphs by the Maka tribe are amazing to discover.

Getting to them is half the battle. We hiked in 3.4 miles to Cape Alava and then 1 mile south on the beach to Wedding rock. You can see Wedding rock  from a distance. To describe it: it is where the treeline meets a huge, huge rock on a point with a cliff side behind it and it is rather unmistakable. It does not have any petroglyphs on it. The petorglyphs can be found before wedding rock on smaller rocks, in around the wedding rock and in the cove behind the point that wedding rock is on. 

And it is a bit of a hunt to find them. But that is part of the fun. Just when you think you may have seen them all someone points out another on the back of a rock or on a nearby rock.

This little guy (above) I almost stepped on. Glad I didn't miss him.

This sneaky fox was hidden near the bride and groom petorglyph.

It looked to us that this one was not finished.

And this one we thought might be a fake because it was carved much differently and there was alphabetic lettering near it.

Is he laughing?

And here are the bride and groom. We almost missed them, but as we turned to go back to cape alava I caught just caught a glimpse of one petroglyph and there they were.

Here they are if they were tipped upright.

We searched and searched, and I am not convinced that we saw them all. If we had had more time we would have looked at every side of every rock. But as it was we were happy with what we found.

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