Elephant Rocks

Next was to Elephant Rocks. Here's a scenic spot along 21. Nice field.

Elephant Rocks is a bunch of big rocks that had been used as a quarry a century ago. Here are some rocks.

Tree vs. Rock. Rock wins.

Lichen.

Rocks.

Crack.

Tree vs. Rock, round 2. Rock wins.

Tree vs. Rock, round 3. Rock wins. You think the trees would learn.

Rocks.

Rocks.

Broken rocks. Quarry.

Out of focus mushroom.

Little orange mushrooms.

Some of the rocks offer a view.

Note the holes in the rock - presumably for blasting that never occurred.

Mushroom.

The high point of the trail - literally - are some very big rocks offering an overlook. Jill for scale.

Overlook.

Stonemasons would carve their names into these rocks.

Overlook.

The rain made pools on the rocks.

A crevasse.

More pools and Jill.

Yeah, a view.

That little bit of rock is carved.

Rocks.

Not T. HARTMAN but close.

Rocks sky and moon.

Leaning rocks. A natural arch, sort of.

Rocks.

Tree in rocks.

Still more rocks.

Part of the old quarry is now under 40 feet of water.

This looks sort of like the cryptobiotic soil seen in the southwest.

Mushroom.

Still more rocks.