Yellowstone part 2

Driving through the park, there were steaming spots e everywhere!
We did a little side trail looking for a Solitary Geyser, never found it, but it was a nice trail!
These are Firehole Falls, another side road we took.
This is Geyser River where all the run off from the geysers ends up, Including old Faithful.
This one was called Pumping Geyser. It was like someone kicking in a pool, ker splash ker splash!
On the Trail, Bear defense, and the only blue in the sky at this point!
Literally the landscape was hot!
These were three little bubbling churning pots!

This was the color of one of the hot springs. About 50 feet deep, 167 degrees!
All those little dips are hot springs that bubble and steam!
Dave by Old Faithful in between eruptions.
Yeah, in the rain. but just enough sun to highlight the Steam and stuff from Old Faithful!
This is called Castle Geyser! Amazing!

A bubbling mud pot!
This was two different hot springs that were connected a bit, but both were such different colors!!
This is the top hot spring.

This is called Black Pool. It changed colors in 1989 after an earthquake from black to this amazing blue!

On the way in the morning, just look at that blue sky!
Here it is, the ultimate four wheel drive!! Ha ha!!
Ah, fly fishishing with your dog. I know this will look like fun to some of you!! This is a real hot spot for flyfishing! In almost every stream, river and creek was at least one fisherman!
The Bison (Buffalo) responding to all the tourists! Ha ha!
On the bluff of Yellowstone Lake. It is huge! Its Fall!!!

Yesterday we returned to Yellowstone to do the west side of the park. The morning was beautiful! Cool, crisp and very sunny! It was like walking into some pre-historic land with all the churning, bubbling steaming open places in the land. I remember being 6 and going to Disneyland in California with my cousins and seeing the Disney version of these bubbling mud pots and steaming geysers. They did a pretty good job of re-creating it (at least in the memory of a 6 year old) but these geological sites are not to be outdone! The day began to get a little overcast and just after we finished our lunch on a bench next to Old Faithful, it began to rain. Thank heavens there was no lightening, but it did rain and blow. We fortunately had an umbrella and sat for 25 min in the rain to watch the old geyser. While waiting we received a surprise phone call from Ross, who had made it back to Buffalo!! It rained the rest of the time we were in the park, but as we made our way back down the mountain, the rain stopped and we had a beautiful clear evening in Cody. Today (Sunday) we are beginning the route back home. We will be in Rapid City, SD this afternoon and hopefully drop down the road to see Mt. Rushmore. If we don't do that today, it will be our first action of the day tomorrow! Love you all and see you soon!!!