Portal RV Resort, Moab, Utah
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. ~ Proverbs 27:1
Pretty nice, huh?
Today, we went in search of more petroglyphs and dinosaur evidence. Again. Hope you don’t mind. 😊
We found them! And they were pretty close to home, so we weren’t gone all day. Our first stop was to see the petroglyphs that are right alongside the main road through town. The one that takes you to Arches National Park. We had a little difficulty locating the trail head, but even though we knew we must have passed it, we kept going, because we figured we were so close to the pedestrian bridge over the Colorado River, we might as well check it out.
It follows the old Rt 191. Rt 191 is the road that we drive on to get to Arches.
Beautiful!
Doesn’t Blaine look like he’s in “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!” hahaha
On the way back towards the Jeep, we managed to find the trail. In part, because we heard a family talking up there. 😊
Once we arrived at the information board, we discovered parents with two elementary-aged children. The girl was especially talkative and seemed very excited to share with us what she’d learned about these drawings. So cute!
My first thought about these particular drawings? I thought they looked like spirit demons. I have no explanation for that thought, other than the way they looked. Sooo different from any others we’ve come across. But there were no dates given for these. Still. It’s very sad whenever people feel they need to desecrate history.
Blaine’s holding his hat on.
Next, we were off to Copper Mine Road, where we hoped to see more evidence of the ancient lumbering giants! By the way, do you know where our word, ‘dinosaur’ comes from? It’s from the Greek words deinos, meaning terrible, and sauros, meaning lizard. So, put them together and you have deinos sauros, or ‘terrible lizard’. Pretty apropos, don’t you think?
Bet they didn’t expect to see us, anymore than we expected to see them. : )
Blaine says it’s really hard to drive in deep sand like this,
and we certainly don’t want to have to stop for someone!
We might never get going again.
Anyway, the Copper Mine Road took us to the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Trail. There were actually two trails here. One took us to see fossilized bones, and I confess, I wasn’t nearly as impressed as I probably should’ve been. They just didn’t look like bones to me, more like a different colored rock in the midst of the sand stone. And based on the pictures they provided on the information boards, these bones came from giant terrible lizards. I’m guessing the good stuff has been removed.
So just what are those little dangly things on their heads,
and how do they know they had them?
You can see the white trail up near the top of the picture.
so I marked it for you.
You can thank me later. : )
And then we moved on to the array of footprints they have protected here! Now that was incredible! And hard to imagine that in all the years they’ve been preserved in rock that no one, or no thing has destroyed them. It’s also pretty incredible the way an artist can come up with a drawing depicting what these things looked like, based on a few bones and footprints. But it’s fun, and I won’t hold them to it. People sometimes wonder, if the Noah account of the flood is true, how Noah managed to save dinosaurs. But I say, nothing says the animals he had on board were full grown. It’s also possible that the dinosaurs were just about extinct at the time of the flood. Not something I’d argue over. I just know they existed. And so did Noah. And the flood was real.
This one was a little difficult for us to see in person, but the photo turned out pretty well.
Definitely a terrible lizard!
Since we couldn’t photograph the entire area at once, you’ll have to piece it together.
That is. If you’re interested enough to do that. : )
These are the same picture, just turned different ways. One way, it shows a depression. 
The other, it looks like a mold!
Isn’t that something?!?
You may have noticed that we picked up some clouds along the way today. Yes! It was wonderful!! We haven’t had a cloudy day, since I don’t know when!
A quick stop at the grocery store on the way home yielded this yummy find! I loved it, but Blaine’s not a huge fan of cherry pie, so he was less enthused. Didn’t stop him from eating his portion though.
Tomorrow we finish up in Arches National Park. It’s gonna be an early, long, hot day. Maybe some of the clouds from today will carry over. We can only hope.