Bobcat sighting....

I was on a walk this gorgeous Sunday morning on the Coyote creek trail which runs by our house. My wife and I were catching up on our college days and work gossip on that 2 hour walk. On the way back, my wife suddenly pointed to a huge cat like animal staring at us from about 25 yards to our right on a clearing under our tree. We were just frozen for a moment since I was not sure if it was a mountain lion or some other animal. It was small for a mountain lion but I thought it may be a cub. I did not want to scare my wife by mentioning the "lion" word to her. So I told her that it should be some wild cat and started walking on the trail. I was glancing around me for the next 5 mins making sure that animal was not following us. About 1/4 mile down the trail, a park ranger stops by, rolls down the window and asks us about the 2 bobcats that were sighted on the trail and if we knew about it. It was then I came to know that we saw a bobcat and not a mountain lion. I told him that we saw one about quarter mile down the trail. Although I still need to read up on bobcats to see how dangerous they are when compared to mountain lions, I was a little relieved to know that it was a "cat" and not a "lion". That was the highlight of our 2 hour walk this Sunday morning. We were both exhausted after the long walk.