by Equus ferus Wild Horse Photography

Walkabout 2020- Day Seventh

Today was our annual Mustang Walkabout Meet & Shoot. This is a totally free workshop where we take people around the Basin and photograph horses. This year we had some old friends for the Workshop. Carin and Rachel came for their fourth year, Michael, Debra, and Dawn also attended. We were blessed to have Cindy & Aletha from the Wild Horse Warriors for Sand Wash Basin along as well. The Wild Horse Warriors and Sand Wash Advocate Team (SWAT) are the caretakers of the horses and the land they live upon. They monitor the herds, work on improving water sources, administer PZP (contraception), and work with the Bureau of Land Management – and a whole lot more. Please visit their respective Facebook pages to follow their wonderful work.

Wild Horse Warriors for Sand Wash Basin

Sand Wash Advocacy Team

Additionally, Cindy runs tours of Sand Wash Basin, so if you’re looking to find horses at Sand Wash Basin for the first time, she is an amazing resource. The tours fall within the Wild Horse Warriors not-for-profit, so the tour fees go back to helping the horses. Cindy is the only tour guide permitted to run tours at Sand Wash Basin. Please check out her webpage.

Cindy not only runs amazing tours, she is very knowledgeable about geology and Sand Wash Basin. She found a partially knapped Native American Ute arrowhead, which we respectfully placed back where we found it. The stone is chert, other stones used for arrowheads are flint and obsidian.

An equine traffic jam on the way back to camp.

The girls had a wonderful day looking for wild horses.
A fire was noted and reported. A concern with thunderstorms is lightning ,which can cause fires in this arid environment.
Horses on the hill
Feeling as though we are on top of the world at 7,000 feet elevation
Some bachelors having fun. They were close to the road, so we stayed in our cars.

Karen and I always wanted to know what horses do at night. so we got a toy- night vision binoculars that allow photos to be taken. May I say how COOL they are??? Here are some photos -some taken near dusk and the others at night. We found out horses do exactly the same thing at night, as they do during the day. Eat. Sleep. Drink water. Though less movement. The clock in the night-vision photos is earlier by one hour.

Beats Wars at dusk
Bears Ears at night
Our camper at dusk
Out camper at night
Meredith using the night vision binocs
Karen amusing the night vision binocs
Sheep shed on 126 at night
Three horses in front of the Bears Ears at night
Small herd- two dark horses, one grey with a small dark foal
A real goodnight from the Basin!

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