Exploring Four Toes and other interesting petroglyphs

We start the day with a breakfast at a nearby diner which is good and gives us energy for the day. Today we have plans to hike in a few canyons near Moab and find some of the many petroglyphs in the area.

First we start along the Kane Creek Boulevard and stop at a day area with a nice side canyon for a short hike before continuing on. We pass quite a few fields along the way some with donkeys browsing the grass as we search for the side road leading to the petroglyphs.

We finally find the correct road and start the short hike along the dirt road looking carefully at the walls and rocks until we finally find them.

Some of them are quite interesting, for example a panel with a row of humans or maybe aliens holding hands or maybe dancing really draws our attention. But the most interesting to us is the Four Toes one done via a quasi acupuncture of the rock. This means that the figures are traced via multiple holes in the rock, it is the first time we see this method. And the animal has only four toes, it must be an alien one, or not. And then after taking in all panels it is time to return to the car to continue on following Kane Springs Road.

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