On the road

Heather had her baby shower and the boys and I were on our own to figure out what we should do.  We loaded up the jeep and headed south for a day trip looking for javelina and just about anything that moved.  We drove just south of Coolidge along the canal system to an area that had allot of cattle water tanks.  We walked down into one of them and found allot of tracks from allot of animals.  We found deer, javelina, coyote, dog, and yes cow tracks.  We walked around the tank to get a good view and found this guy laying near by.

 After we left the water tank we drove along the canal for about an hour until it put us back on the road were we started.  Kaden wanted to see where the road to the north went so we drove up toward the mountain.  We found allot of cows on the side of the road grazing and found a dirt road to another cattle tank.  I asked the boys if they wanted to go check it out and they said yes.  We drove up to the mound and found us surrounded by 30 cows, all of which had horns and willing to skew the first thing that moved from the strange white box that pulled up.  We watched the cows come check us out, and got to see a few baby calves that could not have been a week or two old.  Off we went leaving the cows to play and us finding the next adventure.  I followed a dirt road that wound along the mountains for about an hour and came across a good find, petragliphs!  We stopped to check this rock field out and found ourselves among some cool images.  I wonder if they are real as there were hundreds of them in this area.  Regardless, we messed around looking at them anyways.

Kaden and Masons first encounter with rock art.

Mason wanted to get a better look at one he saw on a rock and off he went up this hill of tall rocks.

Just to get an idea on where we were, I took a picture next to mason looking down the rock field.  Mason crawled up the rocks without help (mom won't like that).  Kaden did not want us to get hurt so he asked us to head back down.





Looking down at Kaden while sitting next to Mason.



Just about every rock had something on it.  This makes me think most if not all of it is recent.

Kaden wanted to know what the ball thing hanging from the stick figure was.  How do you tell a kid that?

By the time we finished hanging around the rocks it was getting hot.  We headed back home to relax from our Saturday mini adventure.  We ended up seeing cows, a coyote, cows, ground squirrels, and more cows.  I was hoping to spot some dessert pigs or deer, but no luck this time of the day.