Tuesday, September 17, 2013

2013 Western Trip – Yellowstone’s Lower Loop Part II

As I said in the previous post, from Old faithful, we headed over to West Thumb Basin and made a couple of stops along the way.



West Thumb is along the banks of Yellowstone Lake and contained one thing Bev really wanted to see - the thermal features bubbling up through the lake water.  But alas, the water level was too low and they were above it.






The remainder of the basin contained some amazingly blue hot pools.







From there, we drove along the lake to Fishing Bridge then along the Yellowstone River to Canyon Village, with stops at Dragon's Mouth Spring, Mud Volcano and Sulphur Caldron.





Further north we saw several large bison herds grazing in the plains along the river.




Fire damage and re-growth are evident throughout the park.

Finally, we headed for home and had our best view of elk along the river drive.  While we were watching the females and young in the water to our right, the bull, who we had not seen, stood up abut 15 feet from the left of the car.

Photos best if enlarged by clicking on them.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by Almost Heaven South.

Larry

9/2/2013 event date 

15 comments:

  1. Amazing wildlife Larry. Those are some big fellows.
    Sam

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  2. Larry, Your header shot of that big buffalo is very cool! Now you need a bear and a moose photo... Take Care, Big Daddy Dave

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  3. Love the Elk pictures. They are such majestic creatures. Too bad the water level is so low. I sure hope they get lots and lots of snow this winter.

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  4. You got some trophy photos, Larry. You can even count the flies on the the bull elk. Yellowstone is definitely worth seeing once, but you will find you will want to go back again.

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  5. I have yet to go to Yellowstone. It is a must do for us. Your photos of the pools and wildlife are great.

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  6. These are great photos of the bison and elk. I also like your photo of Kepler Cascade -- we really enjoyed our visit to that cascade. It was very dry when we were in Yellowstone as well, which had a sad effect on some of the features.

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  7. Your new header shot is awesome. Great photos :-)

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  8. Love the photos, Larry! Feels like we are there with you :)

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  9. What fabulous photos. You have had an amazing trip. Hopefully,by visiting at this time of year you have been able to avoid the summer crowd. Have a great day, Larry. Blessings...Mary

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  10. It looks like we went to a lot of the same places. I am glad you guys had such a great trip.

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  11. Imagine being a pioneer and discovering that you could enjoy a nice hot bath! OK, so maybe that's a girl thing. STill. Great pictures, Larry.

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  12. Love all the photos. Thanks for taking the time to upload/resize/share and caption. I know that can take some time.

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  13. What did the buffalo father say when his boy went off to college? "Bison!"

    Okay...I'm leaving.

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