Monday evening we rode with two other equestrians staying at the ranch. Monte and Bonnie are local residents who were just taking some time with their two Paso Finos. Bonnie's horse is a mare. Three geldings all vying for attention and one mare, yikes! But the ride actually went pretty smoothly.
We rode past a vineyard and I didn't really think anything of it when all of the sudden the horses started to spook and we saw a herd of cattle stampeding in our direction. Then, an ATV chasing the cattle out of the field of grapevines and the guy riding the ATV yelling "HA! HA!"
Monte figured it out quickly - the cows were eating the grapevines and the vineyard owner was using his ATV to chase the cattle out of his fields.
We hustled out of the way, but when I looked back the guy on the ATV had chased the cattle through the river bed we were riding in and gotten stuck on the muddy banks.
Bonnie shook her head and said to me, "Not much we can do to help him."
Well, we might have ridden back, dismounted and helped him pull his ATV out of the mud, but not without possibly creating panic among the horses - being close to a noisy ATV and dealing with stampeding cattle.
Bonnie & Monte are wintering in the next town over from us, so we hope to ride with them again.
We spent two of our days here trying to locate the rock formation called The Nautilus with no luck. Trails are not well marked and even with using a trail app on our phones we were not successful.
This bird was perched on the corral bars hoping to pick up some seeds from the alfalfa the horses are eating. He was squawking at the horses to finish eating so he could have a turn.
I was sitting reading a book in the lounge chair watching the action when a road runner - a real live road runner! looking just like the cartoon - ran past me and disappeared out of sight before I even had a chance to pick up my camera.
Utah sure is a beautiful state. I am looking forward to being in St George - a real town - at least for a little while.
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