Guess what this rock formation is

[uneasy]

Just for fun, here's another mysterious "formation" I found while bicycling. The native Americans saw an animal in this natural rock formation. Can anyone guess what it is?

I admit the photo is reduced in quality to be small enough to post, but the actual site doesn't look much more obvious than this. There's a sign that says what it is, so when you read the sign and then look, you say, "Oh, I see"

I won't say where it is yet, but Cleopatra and I are going on vacation there next year (don't ruin my delusion, Cleo ;))

[Ed]

"ED"?

[Brown]

Well, if the Native Americans saw it, we can probably rule out the kangaroo and the penguin.

To me, it looks like a beaver.

Please spare me the lame jokes.

[BNiles]

Looks like aligator's head to me.

[T'ai Chi]

I'd say a horses' head with the eye and nostrils present.

[Jeff Corey]

If a horse's head, the natives must have seen it that way after the Conquistadors arrived here.

[voidx]

It's Nessie!!! But dried up, and kind of shriveled, with arrows sticking out of her, and a paddle...or a triangle...

[T'ai Chi]

Originally posted by Jeff Corey
If a horse's head, the natives must have seen it that way after the Conquistadors arrived here.

True, and that could be. There was no time frame given.

[wayrad]

Looks like a ring-tailed cat to me.

[T'ai Chi]

Heh, I'm skeptical. It is probably just a photograph of any old landscape, and the point is that people can see many things in it.

It probably isn't a famous site at all. :)

[!Xx+-Rational-+xX!]

If you zoom into the background there is a dog stuck in a tree. Someone should get it down.

[EdipisReks]

rainbow brite.

[uneasy]

I better end this thing now, because I think people will be angry at me for 2 reasons. One, it doesn't really look like anything. Two, I was just looking at the picture again, and I suddenly realized I couldn't remember which way the animal was facing. I'm not even sure on the full res picture any more.

It was slightly more obvious in real life, but then again, there was that sign there that showed a picture of it. The power of suggestion probably took over.

[Ed]

"ED", clearly

[uneasy]

But then I looked at it again, and I realized I couldn't remember if it really face that way or this way.

Yes, it doesn't look like anything, but it's a FROG. Can you believe it? The Catalina Mountains in Arizona are actually called the Frog Mountains due to this rock formation. Those native Americans must have had some good mushrooms.

Anyone from Tucson who can see the frog in the picture above?

Edited to add link mentioning this site:
http://www.easywriter.com/streams/archives/000181.html

[Ladewig]

When I look at it all I see is mommy and daddy fighting after they think I've gone to sleep.

As for finding the frog in the picture, I think the local Native Americans are playing a little joke. "hey you white guys, c'mer, I'm going to show you the outline of a frog; do you see it?"

[Brown]

Wait a minute... is that whitish thing supposed to be the bulge of his eye?

Then I sorta see it.... no, I guess I don't.

Hey, I think I see another shape there. Yes, it's definitely... a load of sh*t. People may say that's a frog, but I say that's a load of sh*t.

[Ed]

Amazing. I searched for monument and got this

1. National Park Service - Sunset Crater Volcano National ED Monument
Explore the mountain scenery and geology, and see a cinder cone rising 1,000 feet above the ground. Includes visitor guides and a geological history.
www.nps.gov/sucr
2. National Park Service - Cape Krusenstern National ED Monument
Visit this isolated cape to study its unusual series of beach ridges, providing evidence of an estimated 9,000 years of prehistoric human use.
www.nps.gov/cakr
3. National Park Service - Natural Bridges National ED Monument
Explore the three natural bridges featured at this ED Monument, located two hours from Moab, Utah. Find directions and read about its facilities and trails.
www.nps.gov/nabr
4. National Park Service - Alibates Flint Quarries National ED Monument
Features a forty-mile drive from Amarillo that brings visitors to this national ED Monument where they can enjoy ranger-led tours of Native American excavations.
www.nps.gov/alfl
5. Dinosaur National ED Monument - Nat'l Park Service, The
Provides directions and info on operating hours and facilities. Read elaborate descriptions of different nature trails to explore.
www.nps.gov/dino
6. National Park Service - George Washington Carver Nat'l ED Monument
Missouri site serves to memorialize the man who was born into slavery, later becoming a scientist and an educator. Includes part of the original farm.
www.nps.gov/gwca
7. National Park Service - Ocmulgee National ED Monument
River bottom wetlands area preserves a 12,000-year record of human habitation in the southeast. Home to a major archaeological museum.
www.nps.gov/ocmu
8. National Park Service - Pipestone National ED Monument
Located near the South Dakota border, this ED Monument includes quarries, native tallgrass prairie, quartzite bluffs, and a creek with a waterfall.
www.nps.gov/pipe
9. National Park Service - Little Bighorn Battlefield Nat'l ED Monument
Tread the ground where Custer's Cavalry troops fought with the Sioux in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn. Visit the Indian Memorial as well.
www.nps.gov/libi
10. National Park Service - El Morro National ED Monument
Visit Inscription Rock, a soft sandstone monolith rising 200 feet above the valley floor, on which hundreds of inscriptions are carved.
www.nps.gov/elmo
11. National Park Service - Castle Clinton National ED Monument
Honors former New York Mayor DeWitt Clinton. Tour with Park Rangers and listen to costumed interpreters describe the harbor defenses of the War of 1812.
www.nps.gov/cacl
12. National Park Service - Bandelier National ED Monument
See ruins of cliff houses and pueblo-style dwellings of 13th-century Pueblo Indians. View exhibits of prehistoric culture at the visitor center.
www.nps.gov/band
13. National Park Service - Capulin Volcano ED Monument
National ED Monument is a cinder cone that soars more than 1,200 feet above the High Plains. Provides a habitat for mule deer and black bear.
www.nps.gov/cavo
14. National Park Service - Fort Frederica National ED Monument
Experience history at this fort built in the town of Frederica, established in 1736, to protect the rest of Georgia and South Carolina from the Spanish in Florida.
www.nps.gov/fofr
15. National Park Service - Fort Pulaski National ED Monument
Discover the first military assignment for Robert E. Lee upon his graduation from West Point. Explore the surrounding marshland.
www.nps.gov/fopu


I am humbled

[pupdog]

It's amazing how some folks can detect patterns that others have trouble seeing. Dentist-cum-creationist jack Cuozzo has a photo on his Web page
http://www.jackcuozzo.com
of what he fancies to be a troglodyte carving of a "Dinosaur and mammoth in head-to-head confrontation."

As Mark Twain said of Ursa Major (he was never able to see the Bear in that constellation): "...as soon as it became the property of the United States, Congress changed it to the Big Dipper, and now everybody is satisfied." [Following the Equator]

[TheBoyPaj]

Frog Rock was found easily enough by Sam and Max - they just got in the general area and followed the signposts. The signposts led them along a narrow dirt track to a desolate, grassy area, and in amongst the rolling hills of this desolate, grassy area, the dirt track fetched up at a flat rock about five metres across.
"This doesn't look like a frog at all," said Sam.
"My innocence has been shattered by this blatant tourist trap," said Max. "I want my money back."
"We didn't pay anything," Sam reminded him.
"Well, somebody better give me some money!"

-----

Taken from this "novelisation" of the Lucasarts Game:
http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/neches/158/snm1.htm

[Ed]

Paj, Paj boy? You there? You off your meds, boy?

[Agammamon]

Originally posted by uneasy
But then I looked at it again, and I realized I couldn't remember if it really face that way or this way.

Yes, it doesn't look like anything, but it's a FROG. Can you believe it? The Catalina Mountains in Arizona are actually called the Frog Mountains due to this rock formation. Those native Americans must have had some good mushrooms.

Anyone from Tucson who can see the frog in the picture above?

Edited to add link mentioning this site:
http://www.easywriter.com/streams/archives/000181.html


To be honest, after living in Tucson for nigh two decades I've never heard the Catalina's called the Frog Mountains (but then again I don't get out much either).

It's probably not being able to see it in 3d, but I can't see the frog in the picture.

[Tricky]

I took this one on a recent vacation. Can anyone tell me what it is?

[Agammamon]

Sam and Max!

If you play Jedi Knight there's a section where you can find the homocidal bunny.

[Ed]

Originally posted by Tricky
I took this one on a recent vacation. Can anyone tell me what it is?


Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

"ED"?

[uneasy]

Originally posted by Agammamon


To be honest, after living in Tucson for nigh two decades I've never heard the Catalina's called the Frog Mountains (but then again I don't get out much either).

It's probably not being able to see it in 3d, but I can't see the frog in the picture.

But have you been up a few miles on the Catalina highway and seen this rock formation? Do you remember if the frog faces left or right?

It might reassure some people that might think I'm yanking their chain. :)

[Agammamon]

Can't say that I have, but I don't think you're screwing around. It's just that the picture you posted doesn't have enough shadowing to distinguish the formation from the background or give an idea of it's shape. That's probably why I can't make it out in the picture.

[Keneke]

Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger

[UnrepentantSinner]

Originally posted by Tricky
I took this one on a recent vacation. Can anyone tell me what it is?

An asparagus spear or a dildo, not sure which...

[neutrino_cannon]

I see a badger in the first silluette for sure. The white and darker patches look like the coloration of the face.

Wonder if peyote helps you to see it;) ?

[Marvel Frozen]

I took this one on a recent vacation. Can anyone tell me what it is?

It's an enormous penis.