Looking down the Firehole River
Buffalo near a trail up to an overlook above Old Faithful we were walking to the observation point above the Old Faithful area and had just gotten on to the less traveled dirt portion of the trail when I happened to glance over and saw this buffalo – he was maybe 100 feet from us — no place to go, had to walk very carefully so as not to startle him and keep going!
Then about 5 minutes later I saw an Elk along trail, she was closer to the trail, about 50 feet maybe and she knew we were there, she just kept staring at us while Mike was snapping pictures, we continued on and didn’t see anymore animals on or near the trail
Old Faithful eruption viewed from about 1/2 mile away.
Solitary Geyser. In 1915, the spring was tapped for hot water to put it to use. The level dropped about 5 feet and what had been a calm spring became a geyser erupting every few minutes. The pipe was removed, but the disruption of the balance caused over 90 years ago continues today.
A raven that visited us at lunch. He wouldn’t leave us alone! He and his buddy would sit on the ground or a tree trunk nearby and kept hoping that we would drop some of our lunch – they were disappointed. Along with the raven’s a clarks nutcracker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark%27s_Nutcracker and several Least chipmunks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Least_Chipmunk joined in and were hoping for lunch also.
Lake Yellowstone Hotel – a panorama. Click on image to see a larger image (it will open in a new window).
Dining room.
Hotel’s “Sun Room”
View of Lake Yellowstone from the shore in front of the hotel.
Churning Cauldron – The roiling of the water is not boiling; it’s huge bubbles of hot gases from deep within the earth.
Too close. She was an idiot! There were more on the other side of her also.
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