———Is that where Sand ‘Island’ is located?——
No, Sand island is actually the starting point for the down river adventure. It is a couple of miles downstream from the motel and actually right by the hiway. You are correct, there are many many glyphs at Sand Island but the ones at the Chaco Wash junction are larger and somewhat different. There are many depictions of humans with large and complex headgear.
Now you’ve got me all riled up. I’m chomping at the bit to get back out there.
We learned the Chaco Park headquarters was being rebuilt and enlarged and was closed. I put off the trip till next year for that reason. Camping in Chaco Canyon is almost a religious experience.
InDEED!
Just DRIVING there will get one to prayin'!!
Amen, Brother!
I have no idea how much gas I've burned up; driving out there from central Indiana, to sleep in Ol' Blue, my 1 ton 77 Chevy van, and wander the rocks and sand!
SOMEtime in my distant past, the word MOAB, entered my brain from somewhere, and I just HAD to go see - very similar to the compulsion found in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
I think I have about ALL of Kelsey's guide books; gobs of topo maps (WAY before the word/acronym GPS entered the general vocabulary of the world) and hundreds of pictures from when they still were found on some kind of obsolete plastic material!
The San Juan river passes by the Butler Wash Petroglyph Site several miles downstream from Sand Island.
Here are the large petroglyphs there. They are to me space men, the aliens seen and recorded in stone. they are speaking to the viewer
