Searching for Spanish Gold

One of our family's favorite things to do is go out and search for stuff. Usually we're looking for geocaches, but a few weeks ago my dad came up with something else to look for - GOLD. Ok, not really. There are plenty of tall tales about Spanish gold being buried throughout parts of Utah and we went out in search of one the supposed markers to the treasure.

Our treasure hunt took us down to Utah County to search in Diamond Fork Canyon. We had my dad's treasure book to guide us to the right spot and the rest was up to our divining abilities. Of course the coordinates were way off. We hiked around several sketchy paths up some pretty steep hillsides. After a few minutes I decided to check if there were any geocaches in the area on my phone. Wouldn't you know it - there was one which mentioned a strange carving in the rock. Sounds just about like we were looking for.

After we climbed up a short ledge - there it was. A giant Sun and Moon had been carved into the rock. These were huge! Certainly not done by any graffiti artist on a weekend. I can't say if the markings have anything to do with Spanish gold, but they were definitely worth a look. Who knows, maybe we'll come back again to see what lies below the Sun's shadow at noon....