Saturday, August 23, 2008

Day 58 - Yellowstone

This morning, we headed south east to Yellowstone National Park. Can you see the head of the rock giant!?!? We have taken to finding pictures in rock formations and I think this looks like a giant's face.
We passed some of the most beautiful country we have seen yet...



These "fences" on the side of hills are used to block snow in the winter. It took us quite a while to figure that out!



Our funny dog, Skeeter, loves to put her nose in the vents and let the air blow on her. We are not sure if it is just the air she likes or if she is sniffing radiator fluid, maybe she likes the smell of the engine? No idea, but it is so funny!
We made it into Yellowstone as the sun was setting, which I have to say was beautiful!


We stopped to see some of the sulphur pools- they are beautiful! Many of them were such a bright turquoise color full of boiling water.

This was a "bubbling clay pot" that seriously looks like bubbling clay- you can hear it gurgling deep inside and then pop, a bubble bursts!
Some of them were steaming vats with a strong sulphur smell.

And, here is a geyser! It was going off when we were there.

We made camp at 10:30 that night and quickly went to sleep.

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