Today was a little bit of clean-up in terms of seeing a few more places that we hadn’t got to earlier in the week.
We went through Firehole Canyon Drive on our way to Lower Geyser Basin where we did a walk-about to Fountain Paint Pot.
We continued on to Biscuit Basin where we walked around another loop that encircled many of the key landscape features.
Made our way North around West Thumb to Pumice Point where we had a nice picnic alongside the waters edge.
We continued around the lake taking Gulf Point Drive to Bridge Bay. Afterwards we hit up LaHardys Rapids where we took a short walk along Yellowstone River.
Continuing onward we headed to Mud Volcano where we walked to Black Cauldron. This isn’t actually Black Cauldron, but Churning Cauldron, a wicked continually roiling pool of water and mud.
Close Encounters… from James Nutt on Vimeo.
Along the way on Hayden Valley all traffic stopped in front of us due to these guys. It was amazing and totally scared the crap out of me. I just imagined one of these guys turning on our car and ramming it or me.
We finally make our way to Norris Geyser Basin, one of the last places we wanted to see but hadn’t been able to do so until now.
Headed back to the hotel and we once again stopped by bison crossing the road as well as seeing more elk off the side of the road.
Peace be with you!
More to come…
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