The Magical Wash

While visiting friends in Bouse, AZ, we explored the desert on ATVs (40 miles).

One attraction was a beautiful wash that had a waterfall formation at the end.

We parked and walked in to see it.

Because of the size of the wash, there were large beautiful rocks, ribboned with blues and greens and spread all along the wash. Each was a work of art and it was like being in an art gallery.

We also found an abundance of petrified wood. It was gorgeous! Another highlight was seeing a tiny scorpion hiding under a rock minding his own business, he wanted nothing to do with our curious snoops. Under the dry waterfall we found a javalina skeleton and many other bones; a place for predators to eat meals in peace, hidden from those who might steal it away.

As we approached the end of the wash we were fascinated by the conglomerate material built up high enough to form a cliff and canyon walls. This appears to have happened from the mud, sand, and rock mixing together while  being pushed by heavy, rushing, rain waters from above, gathering in piles forming the great cliff of mud filled with assortments of more beautiful rocks

forming walls for the wash above the canyon. 

Still today, water falls over this formation during heavy monsoon rains.

It felt sacred and untouched. Magical. A place of natural beauty and life.