Yellowstone National Park

2nd - 5th October, 2010                                                                                                                              


We spent two days driving around the "Grand Loop" road through Yellowstone NP. As soon as we entered the park we started to see elk and bison. It wasn't hard, you just had to stop where all the other cars had pulled over to take a look! Lots of steaming hot springs and geyser basins that you could drive right up to and then get out and walk around the boardwalks.

The Grand Prismatic Spring

Despite our best efforts, the only bears we saw were in the Bear and Wolf Discovery centre in West Yellowstone. Natasha and Abbey became honorary bear keepers and got to go into the enclosure and hide the food for the two very large Grizzlies, then got to watch the bears find the food.

Old Faithful

We also saw "Old Faithful" go off, a must see in Yellowstone. The geyser goes 21 times every day, on average about 75 minutes apart. It shoots hot water nearly 20m  into the air and the average eruption time lasts for between 2 -5 minutes.
 The Old Faithful Lodge is amazing to see! It is the largest log cabin in America and possibly the world. Inside there are at least three levels in the main building that then lead off into the accommodation areas.

Old Faithful Lodge

While on our way driving to a really nice dinner in the lodge, we were held up for quite a few minutes by a bison that insisted on walking straight in front of us on the road. The bison happen to be VERY BIG and we didn't want to take it on head to head so we had to wait it out.