Return to Whitehead X-ing 02

Closeup of recently designated White Rock next to the second largest rock of the Grey Rock complex. Where *does* it point to?

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Grey Rock and largest neighbor, still unnamed. White Rock is on the other side of the foreground rock.

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The stream flow beside Grey Rock. I must get a name for this soon. This is obviously not Little Whitehead, an appellation which has been claimed by the only other spring flow within Whitehead Crossing, just to its west. We’ll get into more of that in a moment. To the right in the below photo you have Bald Head Rock, which, like White Rock, has direct associations with Robertson County of the Lone Star state.

Was Grey Rock known at one time as King Rock? Or was its *neighboring* large rock known as that? At any rate, if you enlarge the below photo by clicking on it, you can see White Rock as a white speck against the latter’s gray surface. I also see the spot where I took the photo here as a place of meditation in the future, perhaps the site of a temple even. It lies at the head of the spring, with a great view down to Grey Rock and also the woods beyond. Each of these rocks could have a story to tell.

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Picture of the middle rocks of the stream, taken from the west. None of these rocks currently have names.

It could be that one of the rocks around Grey Rock is called Seale or Seale Rock, thinking of yet another Robertson County town near Headsville and Bald Prarie. We’ll just see.* If so, it might be a Seal Stone, shortened over time to Sealston.

Was Grey Rock actually called Seal Stone at one time? Thinking here of the topping rock like a ball at the end of the seal or sea lion’s nose.**

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Closeup of Bald Head Rock.

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A smooth rock below Grey Rock, with my now empty coffee cup atop it. Seale Rock in the distance (yes, I’ve already figured out which one it probably is!).

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Grey Rock and topping Seale Rock (!) from the south. This end of a tree trunk stuck in the ground probably means something as well in meaning packed Whitehead X-ing.

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We now move to the top of Little Whitehead only maybe 20 or so yards to the west of Grey Rock.

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The depression in the foreground was probably seen as a source of the stream, at least during a certain time period. It has also been associated in this blog with another crashed rocket site of some unknown Rocket Man, maybe the great whitehead Sinclair himself (?)

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3 pine trees traditionally marking another boundary of Whitehead X-ing, this time on its west side, and just above the source of Little Whitehead.

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* Elton John’s “Grey Seal”.

** Jethro Tull’s “Sea Lion”.

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