I originally posted some of these pictures with a travel blog
write-up (and the link to the original was below). I decided I wanted to share all the pictures
I took of a particular area of point of interest, so some of these you will
have seen before if you’ve been following this blog for a bit. The link below gives more of the details, so
I’m not going to rehash them here.
You’ll see that as I’d gotten a digital camera around this time, the
number of pictures of an area has increased.
It must’ve been a hell of a sight back in 1180 AD thereabouts when
suddenly a volcano blew where there hadn’t been one before. This cone only rises up about 1100 feet, so
not very high, and was located far from the “Ring of Fire.” The crater was the result of a weak-point in
the crush where the magma burst forth, as this was not an area prone to regular
volcanic activity. While the natives
didn’t witness the Meteor Crater being formed, they sure as hell did this. Unfortunately few records remain from that
period, so it would’ve been interesting to hear their observations. Even though it’s been over 900 years since
this happened, the crater looks like it was more recent (within the last
decade). Still this was
awe-inspiring. There was a short
self-guided trail I was able to take, even though it had started to rain by the
time I arrived I explored what I could.
https://traveljournalbydave.blogspot.com/2012/09/arizona-trip-august-2008-day-two.html
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