Day 7 Friday 17 June 2011
Pictures are: snow at Fishing Bridge campground, lower falls and Old Faithful.
Yellowstone National Park is a fantastic place. We had a low of 34 F (1C) overnight and a high today of about 55 F. Today we drove the lower loop - this means we went about 216 km. Leaving West Yellowstone we went east thru the first of many traffic slow downs because of Bison - there are thousands of them here and they think the road is for them. Our first stop was the Fountain Paint Pots; these are fumerals with steam rising and boiling mud and lots of sulphur - reminded us a lot of Rotorura in New Zealand. Then off to Old Faithful, where we spent almost two hours first waiting for 12:22 (+/- 10 minutes) to see her blow, then sitting in on some films. We then crossed the continental divide twice then on to West Thumb. Then along the north coast of Yellowstone Lake into Fishing Bridge where we had lunch and stopped at the Visitors centre. Stopped at Mud Volcano and Sulphur Caldron (more of Rotorura memories) then up to Canyon Village area - the highlight of the day. This area is like a mini Grand Canyon - we have lots of pictures. We got back to the campsite by 6:30 pm - a long day but a very enjoyable day.
On the way we saw: Bison, Blue Heron, Eagle, Canadian Geese, Easgle Nest, Elk, Red tail Hawks, Raven, crow, Ducks and a Heringer Hawk.
Pictures are: snow at Fishing Bridge campground, lower falls and Old Faithful.
Yellowstone National Park is a fantastic place. We had a low of 34 F (1C) overnight and a high today of about 55 F. Today we drove the lower loop - this means we went about 216 km. Leaving West Yellowstone we went east thru the first of many traffic slow downs because of Bison - there are thousands of them here and they think the road is for them. Our first stop was the Fountain Paint Pots; these are fumerals with steam rising and boiling mud and lots of sulphur - reminded us a lot of Rotorura in New Zealand. Then off to Old Faithful, where we spent almost two hours first waiting for 12:22 (+/- 10 minutes) to see her blow, then sitting in on some films. We then crossed the continental divide twice then on to West Thumb. Then along the north coast of Yellowstone Lake into Fishing Bridge where we had lunch and stopped at the Visitors centre. Stopped at Mud Volcano and Sulphur Caldron (more of Rotorura memories) then up to Canyon Village area - the highlight of the day. This area is like a mini Grand Canyon - we have lots of pictures. We got back to the campsite by 6:30 pm - a long day but a very enjoyable day.
On the way we saw: Bison, Blue Heron, Eagle, Canadian Geese, Easgle Nest, Elk, Red tail Hawks, Raven, crow, Ducks and a Heringer Hawk.
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