Greg’s Occasional Pic of the Moment #3 - American Nazca
On Wednesday, I went flying over the Blythe Intaglios, located about 15 miles north of Blythe, California on the Colorado river. No one knows who made these designs, scraped into the rocky desert floor hundreds, or maybe thousands of years ago. Someone wanted to let the gods know we were here and that we wanted to say something.
The designs are quite beautiful and like their cousins in Peru are best appreciated from the air. The circular lines are 20th century artifacts (motorcycles and dune buggies tearing up the landscape before the figures were fenced off.) To give a sense of the massive scale here, the human figure is about 170 feet tall.
As I should have known from the accounts of Paul Bennewitz’ attempts to do so, that it is difficult to take pictures while flying at the same time, so my friend and instructor Chad Bastian of American Paragliding took me up in his two-seat trike to get this shot.
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Dec 22 2006 
December 22nd, 2006 at 7:18 am
Very cool!
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:37 am
Wow! I knew that had to be some redeeming quality about Blythe…
December 22nd, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Geez! To quote John Denver, “FAR OUT!!”.
Ignoramus me never knew such as this existed in N. America.
December 22nd, 2006 at 1:18 pm
Apprently there are about 200 “geoglyphs” in North America. I’ll post more pics when I fly some of the others.
January 10th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Would love to have you share those 200 geoglyphs.
Someone from another forum had a pic of a site in Alberta Canada, very large face. Could not find the location on google maps for the Blythe CA pics tho, are they to small to see from satellite images?
January 23rd, 2007 at 9:54 pm
anniem,
Sorry, but the post was 21 days old when you posted the comment, and I didn’t check back.
Yes, you can see the geoglyphs in Google maps, but they’re blurry. They’re about 16 miles north of Blythe just west of highway 95 near the intersection with South Riverview street.