We woke up to some sun but cloudy for the most part. At least it was warmer than yesterday. Our aim was to cover whatever was left of the park. Some people from our group were keen on Grand geyser. We decided to skip it as there was a window of 3 hours and we had a lot to cover.
We headed for the Yellowstone lake village. Going to bay side picnic area. What a view! And the water is soooo beautiful and crystal clear! When you get down to the beach on the lake all you can see is water on all sides and mountains beyond the water. The lake is tremendously huge, I suppose it is the largest body of water at an altitude. We could even see some snow covered mountains.
Then we headed to the Lake hotel area to find something to eat. There's a café there. It was pouring while we had lunch and the weather cleared up pretty well after that. Lucky us! Heading back towards mud volcano and Sulphur caldron we stopped at El Hardy' rapids. A pretty site. A sign board said that in June July trout can be seen flying up steam at these rapids.
Lee Hardy's rapids.
Next we stopped because of traffic to find a bull elk lazing around and then a herd of Bison and calves in Hayden valley.
While we took pictures of the Bisson herd
The meadows of the Hayden Valley.
Our next stop was Artist point in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. We were completely mesmerized by its beauty. Such deep canyon, bright colors, a huge water fall, abruptly shaped rocks and to top it all a rainbow behind the mountains. Breathtakingly beautiful!
Loads of pictures were taken, we couldn't seem to have enough of it. A stranger took a lovely picture of ours with the canyon in the backdrop, lost with the memory card :( we then moved to another view of upper falls. Brink of upper falls was our next stop then Grand view and off we were towards Mt Washburn.
At the junction of Norris, Grand Canyon and Mt Washburn we were met by crossing spotted deer. I find them very pretty and calming. A few miles ahead we came across some more.
Upper falls view point.
Grand view overlook.
At the junction of Norris, Grand Canyon and Mt Washburn we were met by crossing spotted deer. I find them very pretty and calming. A few miles ahead we came across some more.
Posing for us.
By this time Rishi was getting very very cranky. We had not taken him out of the car most of the day because of the cold weather and because he had caught cold too. We reached Mt Washburn, again a beautiful view of the valley below.
Mt. Washburn.
to head back. It took us 2 hours or more to get out of the park. Lots of traffic jams because of wildlife on the road and some stops because of Rishi.
Traffic stoppers.
We stopped in Firehole village to get some sovereign for Yellowstone. I bought a hoodie and a shot glass. Veronica got a hoodie and a t-shirt. When we left from here Rishi felt better having spent some time in the open and immediately fell asleep. He only woke up next morning.
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