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Chumash Rock Art

Here are pictures from our Archaeoastronomy class fieldtrip to Vandenberg Airforce Base. The pictures of the rock art are not to be reproduced for commercial purposes.

Swardfish Cave - 0730	Swardfish Cave - 0731	Swardfish Cave - 0732	Swardfish Cave - 0733
Swardfish Cave - 0735	Swardfish Cave - 0736	Fault Face - 0747	Fault Face - 0748
Fault Face - 0749	Vandenberg Coast - 0737	Vandenberg Coast - 0739	Vandenberg Coast - 0740
Railroad Truss - 0741	Vandenberg Coast - 0742	PICT0743.JPG	Vandenberg Coast - 0745
Vandenberg Coast - 0746	Vandenberg View - 0750	Vandenberg View - 0751	Vandenberg View - 0752

Susan Peter		22-Apr-2006 07:44
Mary, Do you remember going to see this Chumash cave painting when you were little? You and I stopped here on our drive home from Kimmy's in 1993 (?)-- when she first moved to Long Beach I think -- or sometime around then. The only other time I've been there was with Mick back in 1968 or 1969. I don't remember it being called Swardfish Cave though. Regarding Vandenberg. There was once a little town called Surf way out at the end of a dirt road. When I went there (also with Mick and toddler Kimmy, maybe same trip) the only thing left of the town with a tiny railway station. But it was staffed! An old man worked there, though I don't know what he did other than to entertain visitors, of whom he got very few. However, he was pleasant and talked to us on this beautiful sunny spring day, and then Kimmy played on the beach there and got tar on the new outfit I had just made for her. One of the things this old guy told us about was another young couple who had stopped and visited with him a few weeks earlier. After we returned home to Santa Monica we were telling Carolyn and her boyfriend Jeff about this cool old guy and his railroad station. Turns out, they were the young couple he was telling us about. I always wanted to go back, but never did. Several years ago (mmm...most likely the trip I made to San Diego when you were 6 months old I expect) I notice that the train station was gone, the once small airforce base had been expanded many times over, and huge missile silos had sprouted thick as condos on the headlands. When I was a young teenager and living in Chula Vista (south of San Diego) we would sometimes see the missles being shot off at Vandenberg, and twice saw them go astray and be detonated way up in the night sky -- away overhead among the stars. At least once a photo of one of these spectacular events showed up on the cover of the newspaper the next day. This would have been 1960-1963.

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