Weathered Stone---Tafoni

These photos are of a curiously bizarre type of weathered stone called tafoni. The first photo looks as though it's some creature trying to force its way out of the stone---my imagination goes haywire with the shapes, textures, and random designs created in the stone. There are caves of Tibetan monks, the lunar surface, pits from Dante's Inferno, the demented work of H.R. Giger...







Here is a slideshow of the weathered stone tafoni at Salt Point.