Oct 302012
 

Why is it that wherever you go in the world, if are out in a remote area, with a great expansive view, people will create rock piles of various shapes and sizes? It’s an interesting phenomena. I’ve seen them in South America, Africa, and, most recently, Europe. I captured one of the rock piles I found in Iceland in today’s photo.

Rock pile in remote area with expansive view of water and sky in Westfjords, Iceland

  4 Responses to “Rock Pile, Westfjords”

  1. Good one….

  2. In Canada aboriginal rock piles in the North, Inukshuks, mean “We were here”. Perhaps a universal thought?

    • Maybe. I think when I was down in Bolivia someone said they were offerings for safe passage. It made sense as they tended to be concentrated at the beginnings of roads.

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