San Bartolo Bovine

Thursday Ron and I headed to San Bartolo with George and Anne to see a special local attraction. In this dry barren desert a natural aquifer drains clear, pure water through the walls of a nearby cave. A small beginner creek, from the same source, also flows from this cave. A natural phenomenon from ages past. Water, cascading from the walls, pools together with the water from the small creek and flows downstream maybe 100 feet to a concrete swimming 'pool'. A kid's delight! The creek keeps the 'pool' filled and then spills over the far side and tumbles gently down a short hillside where it is soon around a corner and out of sight.
This attraction is located just on the other side of an arroyo from the small dusty town of San Bartolo. Upon arriving at the local hangout to visit the cave and hopefully enjoy a dip in the 'pool' we were confronted by another group on its way to this water. Uncorralled cows. The usual kind of cow in Mexico. They were heading for the lower portion of the creek, though, not the 'pool', which was quite occupied by another set of local residents. Kids. Noisy happy kids.
The cows were headed down the arroyo probably as they did every day of their lives.

Here she is - - the undisputed leader of this gang of rib-revealing local cows heading for a refreshing libation at the nearby aquifer generated cooling creek. Just one obstacle at this point. A gringa who does not realize she is in the DIRECT path leading to said libation. Believe me, this gringa, (me) did not hesitate to give up the territory this cow was unhesitatingly going to traverse.

These young heifers kept their distance even after seeing the success the boss cow had in making me back out of her way on her trek to the welcoming creek.