Wind Blown Sand Art

Should anyone think that it must have been dull to walk over so much sand, they would be wrong.  The wind was almost a constant in Kobuk Valley on the sand dunes.  The wind was therefore constantly creating art in the sand.  You can probably notice some wind-blown sand art in almost every photo from the dunes.  I’m just going to include this one post specifically highlighting the wind-blown sand art.  There will be lots more but just as part of showing other things from our stay here.

Just like in Gates of the Arctic NP, we found that it was much better to walk slowly in Kobuk Valley.  The sand, the plants, the animal tracks, and the views, they were all highlighted by a slower pace.

The first photo was truly a dramatic look at what the sand and wind create in this park.  We saw plenty of such art on our walks.

On a fairly flat section of the sand, the second photo struck me as a real work of art.  It’s not a black and white photo but it somewhat looks like it.

The third photo is a real WOW photo, which usually means that it’s one of Andrew’s photos, and it is.

We walked a lot of ridges in the park and they were usually dramatically contrasted, from one side of the ridge to the other like in the fourth photo.

Plants got into the art world along with the sand and wind as you can see in the last photo.