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| Todays visit into the Park is to the main thermal/geyser areas.......the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone has the largest concentration of geysers in the world...... |
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| This is Yellowstone's famous geyser Old Faithful....which erupts approx every hour to an hour and a half...a magnificent sight but we have been up close and personal (3 feet from the eruption) to Strokkur Geyser in Iceland !! However we still enjoyed the spectacle and got to chat to a nice couple from San Diego...... |
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| The boiling water from the hot springs and geysers flows down to the river producing due to a range of minerals mixed with the steaming water fabulous colours .....surprising, for us anyway, there was no really awful sulphur smell.... |
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| Even in theses conditions or perhaps because of it these flowers bloom.... |
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| An osprey resting in his search for lunch.... |
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| Now in flight.... |
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| Onto Midway Geyser Basin and more colourful "rivers of fire"..... |
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| Grand Prismatic Spring This was by far our favourite hot spring/geyser of the day, a large pool and sorry, for the expression, awesome.... the colours and colour changes were fantastic.....this and next 4 photos hopefully show how amazing it is.... |
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| These are just a a few of the photos I took here and yes there will certainly be one of them on a wall when we get back to our static home.... |
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| Such a variation in the hot pools and geysers.....this and next photo is pretty Sapphire Pool.... |
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| Mustard Spring |
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| Avoca Spring |
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| Shell Spring..all of the above springs erupt at regular intervals...this whole area is so fascinating... |
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| To finish todays venture into the park we drive the scenic 2 mile Firehole Canyon Road to Firehole Falls....Yellowstone is so diverse it seems there is something new around every corner.... Tomorrow we are hitching up and driving through the Park to the North Entrance and Gardiner and our stay for the next 4 nights.... |
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