Jul 05, 2014

 We have had a great day exploring the park and have seen heaps of bison and a number of elk. We even spotted a bear, grissly we think since we had just been reading that it is their habitat. He was big and ambling through a small thicket of lodge pole pine. A bit daunting to realize we are not the top of the food chain!

 

Yellowstone lawn mowers off duty.

 

And on duty.

 

Not far out this morning we found the first of the elk we saw for the day. They had a beautiful meadow to themselves.

 

Another flower I hadn't seen before and we had come past hillsides of them in the grissly territory which they feed on. This is the area which specifies camping in hard sided campers only......to preserve the fresh meat obviously.

 

A shot of the Lower Falls in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowsttone, and check out the great lump of snow still to thaw.

 

And some distance below the falls. We saw massive bodies of water in rivers and cascading down rocks and pouring over falls throughout the day.

 

The Old Faithful Geyser which is the worlds best known geyser. We arrived about 7 minutes before it blew and watched it with at least a couple of thousand other people. Don't know where they all came from.

 

MY Old Faithful Geyser AKA Normie John.

 

An interesting bit of engineering on the road heading back to our hotel. The roads have been exceptionaly good quality and the walks and overlooks maintained well