El Morro

My apologies for not making any comment after my Wolf Sanctuary blip, and for being off line for the last 2 days.

For reasons of sickness (not ours), our plans were suddenly changed yesterday, and we were without internet connection and unable to blip.

On the morning after the wolf sanctuary and Zuni Pueblo visit, we decided to make an early start and call in for a flying visit at El Morro, a national monument made famous by its rather remarkable 17th Century graffiti.

It has a reliable waterhole hidden at the base of its sandstone bluff, and this made El Morro (the headland) a popular watering hole and campsite for hundreds of years. At this place, early Spanish explorers, native Americans and American travelers carved over 2,000 signatures, dates, messages, and petroglyphs.

The first inscription carved at El Morro was that of Spanish Governor Don Juan de Onate in 1605, 15 years before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. We actually found his signature.

Bigger bluff.

Paladian shot her blip in the waterhole I refer to.