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Here are some pictures of the past week here at the TNC Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve. (And two from TNC Ramsey Canyon)

We had a Mountain Lion hanging around the TNC last Fall. They was forced to close for a week I believe, to avoid any issues with humans. The last known siting was November 2012 area I believe.

Yesterday, the TNC Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve manager was checking the motion cameras and had what he thought was the Mountain Lion but the image was at night and was very blurred.

About 1 hour later we had two visitors tell us they saw the Mountain Lion.

Today at 6:41 am Pauline was on her normal morning walk when she texted me that she saw the Bobcat in the clearing, so I grabbed my camera and went as fast as I could to see if I could find it.

I had NEVER seen a wild cat in the wild. Zoo’s yes, actually in the wild, never. I have seen Bear, Moose, Wolves, Coyotes, Bison, you name it, odd’s are I have seen it in the wild, except for a wild cat of any kind.

Until today!

I got to the clearing, saw the Bobcat, took as many pictures as I could, but he was low in the grass and I was facing the low rising Sun, so I knew the pictures would not be the best, so I backtracked back to the trail and took the trails to out flank the Bobcat, while on the trail I had a great shot of the Bobcat and took even more pictures.

But I knew if I continued on the trail I could get on the far side of the Bobcat and get really good pictures, so I started to walk as fast as I could and as I started to go down the stairs I see the Mountain Lion sitting on the trail, looking right at me, no more then 30′ from me.

I stopped.

He stared.

I stared.

I took as many pictures as I could, about 4-5 minutes of staring at each other, he walked away and went around the bend. I gave him a good 30-45 seconds before I slowly fallowed only to find him disappeared into the bush. I never heard a sound.

I did however see what he was sitting on the trail for, a mother deer and fawn was no more then 20 yards from us and they was completely clueless to his presence.

So within a span of 1 minute I saw two kinds of wild cat, in the wild.

I am writing this 2 hours later and I am still geeked from my adrenaline rush.

What a wonderful morning!

• who the hell wants to read our tweets? 2013-05-11 http://t.co/uHr6u8Lz8o 00:44:12, 2013-05-18
• Today's walk http://t.co/PbfR96cXNR 13:24:41, 2013-05-18
• Our Bigfoot moment… http://t.co/VfBcw9rDpx 16:26:42, 2013-05-18
• Patagonia, AZ http://t.co/SKC6QaHcft 21:27:58, 2013-05-18
• I remember us visiting OK in '01 and even then you could see the path of the destruction of the '99 twister… 09:57:05, 2013-05-21
• My thoughts are with the latest victims of this hugh tornado. =( 10:00:05, 2013-05-21
• We are on a wildlife preserve, so you expect to see animals, what you don't expect is bunch of cattle from the local ranch right outside lol 16:32:06, 2013-05-21
• We had grilled pork tonight, unfortunately I over did it trying to keep it warm for hubby….he helped the preserve mgr with the cattle 18:53:20, 2013-05-21
• For for his work on herding cattle to their ranch, hubby got dried out, almost cold pork….but he is working on a drink now. =) 18:54:35, 2013-05-21
• You can tell that this dog country and with all the free roaming cattle and the ones that get loose…you can tell why, very needed….lol 19:02:42, 2013-05-21
• WOW!!!! WOW!!!! Two bobcats greeted each in clearing! One walked off on the treeline one chilling & me no binoculars or camera 05:43:17, 2013-05-22
• Almost caught up http://t.co/f6ZyWWm8Jk 08:21:57, 2013-05-22
• Geoffrey Platts Trail in the TNC Patagonia – Sonoita Creek Preserve http://t.co/oDXvfcr3Hv 12:03:03, 2013-05-22
• I-5 Skagit River Bridge Collapsed near Mount Veron, Washington http://t.co/oTt7dF5cwc 20:28:38, 2013-05-23

It took me some time to calm down before I posted anything on this as I am not very happy right now, and I want to go on a tangent of the current status of the United States Infrastructure and how crapped it is.

We wanted to keep this blog travel wise and not politcal.

However, I have crossed this bridge multiple time’s for over 20 years. We was on it as recent as this past April. I have family and friends who cross this bridge multiple times.

I am not at all amused right now.

I-5 Skagit River Bridge Collapsed near Mount Veron, Washington

I already mentioned the “Bigfoot moment” we had while hiking the Geoffrey Platts Trail in the TNC Patagonia – Sonoita Creek preserve here are the rest of the pictures we took.