Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Geysers and Hot Springs and Mud Pits, Oh MY!

What would Dorothy have thought if she had landed in Yellowstone instead of OZ? What did the early explorers think? Can you imagine seeing a geyser shooting up out of no where? Even in today's well educated and vastly diverse world they were a wonder to see! Our first day in the park we went to places like Fountain Paint Pots, Upper Geyser Basin and Old Faithful area. But even the following days we saw geothermal areas everywhere in the park. It was really interesting and stinky with sulfur at times! Here are some of the better pictures that we got of various geothermal activity.
I'm not sure the name of this one but it was one of the few pictures we got that wasn't obscured with steam. The air temp was low even thought it was sunny and about 70 the wind seemed cooler, thus lots of steam.
This one's interesting because of the vivid color but it was full of steam so the actual blue green large pool was masked in white.
Here's a nice shot of Old Faithful showing it's stuff:
Some places just had yummy green and yellow bacteria growing in those hot spots. Here's a closeup of one.
I love this shot of the wide view of the geyser area near Old Faithful.
Here's another wide view shot with more geysers in it. The river is called Firehole River.
The two of us in front of a geyser.
This was taken at an area called Mud Volcano. This is a buffalo awfully close to the "Churning Cauldron".
And last but not least is a picture of the view over the Mud Cauldron and Yellowstone River.

The geothermal sights of Yellowstone were a wonder to see. If you ever get a chance to see them it will be well worth it!

Hope you're enjoying these installments from our trip to Yellowstone. Check back tomorrow for other beautiful sites we saw. Catch you later!

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