Ok, now that we are doing the travel log in real time I will have to get caught up to Saturday. So here goes.
On Friday, we spent the day in southern Alberta visiting some off the beaten path sites.
First we went to Milk River, AB and drove 30 Km east to an area called Writing on Rocks. The site is a sacred, Black Foot Indian site where there are petroglyphs and pictographs on the stone walls of the banks of the ancient path of the Milk River:
The limestone cliffs contain the paintings and scratched designs of hundred of years of visitors. Many are modern grafittti, but experts have determined that some are ancient. This drawing is thought to be an elk:
This drawing is thought to represent a warrior or hunter with a spear:
These circular designs are believed to represent warriors armed with shields. The large size of the shields indicates that the drawings are from before the use of horses:
As we were leaving the area of the carvings, we spotted a River Elk watching us from a crevice in the stone:
