EVERYONE at Yellowstone takes pictures! Line up the family on one side of the boardwalk, hand someone your camera to take a picture with the geyser (waterfall, mountain, whatever) in the background. Of course, everyone else has to wait while you do it. Sometimes I got annoyed and took pictures of them too...Here's one of the 3 of us:
On our first visit to Yellowstone, we chanced to see:
12 geisers steaming: (I'm sure we saw more than 12, but I lost count.)
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| Tortoise Shell Spring and Castle Geyser |
11 springs a-flowing:
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| Terrace |
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| Terrace at Pallette Spring |
10 pools a-boiling: (I know this is really, really hot water! But of course, I wanted to test it...which is really, really stupid, huh?)
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| Beryl Pool |
9 mudpots glubbing: (they really do go "glub, glub, glub"!)
7 flocks of geese: (I confess I have no pictures of Canada geese. They're such a common bird at home I didn't even think of it--however, lots of other tourists stopped whenever they saw them in the water! Big fat things in water so shallow they had to walk instead of swim.)
6 chipmunks begging: (they're really cute, aren't they?)
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5 waterfalls: (Gibbon Falls, Upper Yellowstone Falls, Lower Yellowstone Falls, Virginia Cascade, ummm...gotta be another one somewhere!)
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| Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone |
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| Gibbon Falls |
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| Firehole River |
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| Madison River |
3 bison grazing: (Park rule: stay 100 yards away from bears and buffalo; 25 yards away from all other critters.)
2 herds of elk: (The elk were even farther away than the buffalo--except for this one in the trees. You get extra points if you can actually find him.)
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