crossing the line

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Yo yo yáll, this is Rich.

well, i took my beloved for ANOTHER birthday extravaganza (count them, that´s TWO presents! and a card! that´s more than ive ever got anyone else ever! its probably more than everyone else combined too).

this time was a fantastically expensive (about 30 quid)flight over the nazca lines in a cessna. how brilliant am i? im surprised you have to ask, but basically im fantastic, and by far the best boyfriend anyone could ever have.

The lines are cool. Everybody knows about the figures, but the lines are probably more interesting, mainly because nobody knows what they{re really for. Despite several unlikely theories about pre-olympic running tracks and alien landing sites (i mean honestly, does that sound likely? idiots, idiots everywhere...) they probably relate to religious stuff and sources of sub-terranean water tapped by surprisingly advanced underground aqueducts (contrary to popular belief there were LOADS of people living here). All the lines interconnect about 40 centres, which presumably had good stuff in them or summat. Some researchers think the figures were to be processed over in religious ceremonies, a practice still conducted in Bolivia. There are plenty of other theories, which i have neither the time nor the inclination to really go into (nor you to read probably), but the upshot is that no-one really knows. It doesnt seem to be a star chart type thingy though, cos the lines mostly dont point to them.

The flight was ace, although i quite nearly added new intriguing patterns of my own to the pampa out of the window (not the smoothest flight ever) and ive got a new thing to get nerdy over. (i like lines as well as boats now)

the pictures arent the best ever, but thats probably why some cameras cost as much in Britain as i spent on mine in Ecuador. ho hum. Try zooming in or summat

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Photos

LINES!! FANTASTIC!
crikey, who´d have thought all these lines would turn up in the middle of a desert?

Spaceman?
some idiots came up with the stunning theory that this means aliens made the lines. I´m not so sure, but even if they did, hes a cheerful looking chappy so no independence day style problems beckon

Hummingbird
this one, unlike most of the rest, looks vaguely like the animal it{s named after

PARROT?
this, however, looks about as much like a parrot as I do. Since when did parrots have spanners for faces?

HANDS?!?!?!?!
I mean really, is that the best they could come up with for a name? did they seriously think that an ancient civilisation grouped together and said "hey, you know what guys? I think a 200 foot pair of hands with strange stuff at the back end would look really cool on our Pampa"
I think it looks like a monkey playing the spoons with fish slices, and from now on it shall be known as such

Tally ho!!
The thought suddenly occured that you cant see much on those pictures at that scale, so heres a nice piccy of the plane

Comments

[Clairebear]

figures?
so what are the figures, who managed to draw such big pictures in the sand or am I being dumb? Happy belated birfday Jen* Claire xx