Leaving Yellowstone

As I’ve already said, we had a wonderful time in Yellowstone and I feel confident in saying that we left it just as we found it.
The only things we brought home were a couple souvenirs, maps, memories, and lots of photographs.

I don’t have the high speed equipment to get a good photograph of a black bear AND stay safe so I kept my distance when we came across this fella. I’m fine with that.

We saw beautiful waterfalls and at this spot, we met a nice gentleman with his camera on a tripod shooting in the opposite direction of this waterfall.

He pointed out a baby osprey atop a pillar of rock in the canyon waiting for it’s mom.

There is a wolf den somewhere up in those hills but we never saw a wolf up close. Obviously.

This Bison crossed the stream nervously, looking back again and again. Not sure what was after her but she seemed quite nervous.  She joined the herd after this.

One of our last stops was at the Grand Prismatic Springs…along with the rest of the tourists.

This is the largest hot spring in the United States and the third largest in the world.

It’s colors match the rainbow dispersion of white light by an optical prism: red, orange, yellow, green, and blue.

A great experience was had by the three of us. I’ll admit that I had a little separation anxiety when leaving Yellowstone. We just grew to love it so much and wanted to see more. Fortunately our next stop was Grand Teton National Park. So with butterflies in our bellies, we continued on for  the adventures ahead of us!

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