Yellowstone

Down to Yellowstone Park

Heading south from Glacier Park was
out of the mountains and into the Ranch Lands

Rolling hills for miles...and rolls of hay too

A special night in the hills just outside Yellowstone

In the early morning we came down into Gardiner City

And then Into Yellowstone Park

First thing we see is a Big Bull Elk

and mom with a young one enjoying a drink 

First stop was Mammoth Hot Springs

Flowing hot water was everywhere

Exploring the Yellowstone Canyon

The lower falls from Artist Point...good name

Yellowstone Falls
check out the boardwalk in the lower centre
It was a long walk down but much longer back up 

Spectacular colours in the valley

We headed east to Tower Falls
and found a campsite nearby 

This buck came right through our spot  

and this little guy tried to join us for dinner

We left early the next morning to explore... 

The Lamar Valley

 Sunrise on the Yellowstone River was spectacular 

The morning light with the mist was fantastic

Lamar Valley is well known for its Wolves 
and we sure hoped we'd see some.

It was so early we had the road all to ourselves
which allowed us to go slowly and enjoy the view







and then Arlene spotted a wolf looking down on us

 
I shut off the engine and wound down the window. 
 He only stayed for a few minutes of magic

and then he lopped off into the mist.
Rudy was quiet the whole time...good boy

Now we were headed east out of the park

to explore the Bear's Tooth Highway

But we still had to get by all the Bloody Bison

The highway was like a snake as we climbed 

A side road took us way up to a fire watch tower

The view was amazing...great place to work  

You could see the fires to the south

Back to climbing up the switchback highway

and then finally to the summit...Fabulous 360 View

We headed back down and south on 
The Chief Joseph Highway

Odd shaped mountains compared to the Rockies

We drove around amazing red rock formations.
they were huge...can you see the car in the centre

and hoodoo like mountains

The Shoshone River in Wapiti Valley

Our campsite was not far from the river

an early morning walk

before a great breakfast

Yellowstone Lake

Back into the park via the south east entrance

Peaceful rest stop by the Yellowstone River

Arlene has quite the eye for spotting wildlife

playing like nobody was watching

and then she caught our scent in the wind

Now we were in Geyser Country
on the southwest side of the park 

some were blowing and others just bubbling 

weird contrast between these two water holes

The algae was all sorts of brilliant colours  

Beehive Geyser going off

No better way to end this segment than a 

Great action shot of Old Faithful  

On to the Grand Tetons Park