Day two of vacation was also spent exploring Yellowstone. We crammed as much in as we could before venturing up north to Billings.
Gibbon Falls
My handsome fella
Someone was a touch grumpy....guesses?
The buffalo were out in full force this day.....grazing and napping.
We stopped to see the paint pots. The pictures of these online are greatly exaggerated - or maybe we didn't see them at their greatest. They were quite boring and certainly not the bright colors the online pictures depict.
A bubbling mud pit.
We also stopped to see the canyon. I remember this waterfall from a childhood vacation. I wanted to hike down to the lower observation deck to get the same picture with my kids, but that hike is more than a leisurely stroll down the mountain.
We really weren't feeling it with the kids, so I set up the camera on a rock and snapped a quick picture of the four of us.
The pictures from the top observation don't even do the canyon justice. It's quite a scene and I stood up there for quite some time, taking in the magnitude of what mother nature had accomplished.
After the canyon, we made our way up to the northeast entrance/exit of the park. We encountered LOTS of buffalo and the kids were pointing them out left and right.
This one is a little blurry....Eric had the camera and this guy was literally two feet away. I was pulling the car away from the side of the road - I didn't want this beast to nudge me! And let me say, these animals SMELL.
The mud volcano.
The Dragon's Mouth - this pit must extend down into an underground cavern because the rolling wave and belching sounds really did sound like a low, grumbling dragon.
Fisherman's Bridge - which ironically boasted a sign saying "no fishing". How nice of them.
Traffic was halted a few times to make way for the wandering pedestrians.
Stay tuned for our adventure up Beartooth Highway!
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Its been years since I've been to Yellowstone. I need to drag Bill there one of these years. Someday we'll have to go for the Fall Photography retreat...
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