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| Point of Rocks is a few miles from the Visitor Center down this washboardy gravel road, but I had heard that there were bighorn sheep there, so I decided to drive there. |
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| The sign at Point of Rocks shows the boardwalk. I walked to the amphitheater. |
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| This bighorn sheep on a sign on the Point to Rocks boardwalk reminded me of the animal petroglyphs Native Americans carved into stone at Chaco Canyon. I hoped it would bring me good luck. |
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| From the amphitheater I could see two bighorn sheep at the top of the rocky cliff. |
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| Then a young one walked down to join the other two. |
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| They stood at the top for a long time. |
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| Then they started to come down the hill towards the spring. |
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| They stopped and looked around. |
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| Then they came down to the vegetation around the spring and I left them alone to get some water. |
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| This is King's Pool, the spring where the bighorn sheep were coming to drink. |
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| The cliffs you can see in the background are the cliffs the bighorn sheep were standing on when I first saw them. |
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| These holes in the rocks above King's Pool are said to have been made by Native Americans grinding mesquite beans. |
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