Talk about a trip you took out to Anza Borrego
Hike Near Torres-Martinez Indian Reservation
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RobertMarcos Posts: 23
10/23/2016
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I drove 30-minutes south of my house in La Quinta today, parked at the end of Jackson, then did a three-hour hike south of the Torres-Martinez Indian Reservation. The canyon I chose has an interesting attribute, it has a mile-wide row of coral-covered rocks that mark the shoreline of Ancient Lake Cahuilla, (which you might imagine as a giant Salton Sea). Anyway the natives lived off the fish and dug for clams - up until the sea dried up in about 1600 AD. Today I was looking for petroglyphs or their discarded piles of white clam shells, but instead I found this ancient fish trap...(I assume, since there are other types of "rock dam" fish traps nearby). The circle of rocks was exactly at the waterline, and was about eight-feet in diameter.
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edited by RobertMarcos on 10/23/2016
edited by RobertMarcos on 10/23/2016
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