Showing posts with label Kamastamo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kamastamo. Show all posts

Sunday, February 19, 2012

At the top of that mesa lies a big, big man.

I set out to find the Bouse fisherman, and, by golly I succeeded.



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snagged from forum.treasurenet.com.  This is how he looks from the air.



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For Bob. It's not dramatic like the ones in Blythe.


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He looks like this from my camera.  He's really more of an aerial guy.
I was plenty wowwed, though, him being anywhere from a few hundred years old to a few thousand.  Kamastamo is his name, creation is his game.  He is an intaglio (in TAL yo), or a geoglyph if you prefer.  Don't take my word for stuff, here's a sign:

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While I was in the middle of I Don't Know Where I Am,  I looked for a geocache.  Do you do this?  It's good, clean fun that I recommend.  I'm "chillyrodent" in those parts.  Don't ask for a Duck;  you won't find me.  And, I didn't find the cache here.

I saw and heard this bird:

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Cactus wren?








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It's a gate



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So I can find The World's Tiniest Cactus again.



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"The teddy bear cholla is extremely flammable." ~ Wikipedia




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I found two of the four geocaches I tried today.  That's 100%!

If you're on the road, what are your hobbies?  If you're beside the road, what do you do?