Controversial wildlife photographer tracks potential archaeological treasures.The rocks at Carmel River State Beach are a bit like cumulus clouds: Lighting, angle and imagination can reveal different pictures in their shapes.
But Pacific Grove-based wildlife photographer Ivan Eberle thinks one particular hunk of granite is too symmetrical to have been sculpted by wind and waves. He describes it as “Sphinx-like,” and its horned visage—complete with a deep, round eye socket—is uncanny.
Eberle isn’t an archaeologist, and he knows that without an official State Parks assessment, his Sphinx idea is just a hunch. But he suspects it, and other sites deep in Monterey County’s wilderness, merit closer inspection.
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