The Lines

Ok, now that we were flying,

I decided to sit back and enjoy the views and experience

The flight takes only 30mins from take of to landing....

First we saw "The whale"

I'm surprised that I managed to get a photo...with the plane swinging first to the left..then circling and dipping to the right.. once i got the hang of things, was able to take many photos...loads of nothing...just hoping to capture the lines


"The astronaut" unlike the others is etched on the side of a rock rather than the desert floor

One of the most clear images is "The Humming bird"

By now I was more relaxed and focused on the views, only having to grab my pal's thigh twice to stabilize my self...i was actually enjoying seeing the lines for my self...and having to peer closely to make out the images

Like "The dog" here, upside down in the right hand bottom corner

"The monkey"...very, very faint; look very closely at the centre of the photo

In fact i nearly trashed the photo thinking there was nothing










"The condor" is a very large image (136 mts)and thus hard to capture all of it in one shot

I managed to get the tail; light hand bottom corner

I did not manage to get "The spider"...

just a piece of the arm











"The parrot"'s head was clear, but don't know if I got the body; also a large image 200mts

Lastly we saw "The Tree and the Hands", next to each other

The hands look like a frog to me...
plus why one has one hand has only 4 fingers???







All in all there are 12 figures, but I did not see the "Trapezoids", ant the "Heron bird"... unless I just have not noticed them yet in the photos...will have to look more carefully

I was really happy to have made this experience to see for my self the lines which indeed leave more questions than answers...

I was happy to head back to the airport

I would have been grand to see the lines a second time around now that we understood better...

and we all thought and agreed that the flight was too short....!!!!