Karaudarnau

Going for a ride

Story and photos by Gaulbert Sutherland

 

If you’re scared of leaping cows, don’t go into the corral. I wasn’t scared. “Hug it,” Stephan urged as grinning, he snapped photos. It was a pretty calf, brown with a little white spot on its forehead. It was shy, so I got closer and closer and petted it then moved in for the hug.

It leapt. And I, having not been too keen on the other cows in the corral who had been giving me the eye all along, took off like a bullet. Only,