The Walk Back From Arrow Canyon

After our encounter with the dam, while Alex and I were trying to find a way down into Arrow Canyon we walked around on some unusual rocks. A real mixture of volcanic, limestone, sandstone, basalt and others.
The real treat of the walk was finding what at first we took for regular seashell fossils. They turned out to be mammal bones end on and sticking out quite prominently.

Of course I'm no expert but first time finds are always exciting.

The weather started to change a bit and in fact it was over the horizon lightning that got us moving for the car. Photocredit - Alex
A little different route back found us walking under a huge overhang in long grass. The direct summer sun would never reach the ground here and there were also large piles of purple thistles that had gone to seed. This would be a delight in the summer.

The desert out here is always ready to give up surprises. As we were scouting access from a different direction we came upon some abandoned mine equipment.
It looked to be the headgear from an old vertical shaft.
We looked for the mine, thinking that it might be close but couldn't find a thing in the area.

More as it happens

Bob