Before we departed Seminole Canyon, we took an archeologist guided tour of one of the overhang shelters that had been used for thousands of years. The Pecos style wall paintings were fascinating, as was learning about the way people survived in this desert environment for hundreds of generations. The cave art dates from around 4000 - 1000 years old. Our archeologist (Jack) didn’t try to tell us what it meant. He could tell us what he thought they meant. He could tell us figures and shapes that were common across the region. But what the figures and colors meant could only be truly known by the people that drew them and the culture they lived in.
Here’s a modern day sculpture at the visitors center.
Here is the shelter and are a few of the most interesting drawings:
From our campsite in Seminole Canyon, we could look SW and see the mountains of Big Bend. They were about 100 miles away, and it was a 220-mile drive to get there. Along the way we stopped in the town of Sanderson where Elena’s grandparents met back in the early 1930s. Here’s Elena in front of the high school (Sanderson High School) where her grandfather taught after he graduated from college.
We arrived at Big Bend and went to our first campsite at Rio Grande Village. A javelina strolled past within minutes of our arrival. We took an evening walk along the nature trail down to the Rio Grande and watched the sunset on Sierra del Carmen Mountains near Boquillas. (RGV1-002 and 004)
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Looking back at the Chisos Mountains from the Rio Grande
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| Sunset on the Sierra del Carmen Mountains | |
I'm posting this connected to the Wifi at the Rio Grande Village Store - the only connection to the outside world. No cell or other signals out here.
- Paul
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