Seminole Canyon State Park

We are here for two nights, leaving in the morning to go a little further northeast in Texas. We were at this park three years ago when we came out west. It is out of the way between Big Bend and Laredo, on the Rio Grande at the Mexican border.
We did a long hike this morning along the rim of the Seminole Canyon and south to where it meets the Rio Grande. There is a cave there with some beautiful petroglyphs from the ancient people that inhabited this area up to thirteen thousand years ago.
In the afternoon we drove about a mile west to where the Pecos River converges with the Rio Grande and we saw a herd of goats grazing along the bank there. This is fairly flat country, but wherever water flows it carves deep canyons out of the limestone to form deep gorges. There are wild boars and mule deer here and a lot of desert vegetation and cactus. An interesting area, but quite out of the way from anything.
The weather is staying nice, in the eighties and sunny, but a bit breezier the last two days.

Quite a lot of this variety of cactus was in bloom. The deep red color of the flowers was very striking in the desert.

This is a view of the Rio Grande River looking west at the southern border of the park. Mexico is on the left hand side of the picture. We saw a small herd of horses grazing on the Mexican side of the river here.

This is the Seminole Canyon which runs through the State Park. There are a couple of caves here with petroglyphs (cave drawings), that date back many thousands of years to the ancient inhabitants of this region.