Yellowstone Continued

We got up bright and early on our second day at Yellowstone, the forests were shrouded in mists as well as sulphurous steam.

Mudpools bubbled away cheerfully, some seriously hardy plants, with the ability to stand such harsh environment, thrived in the toxic mud baths.

With the sun behind us, we used the bellowing steam as a screen for our shadow theatre.

On we drove, before long, the inhabitants of Yellowstone began to rise.

Besides the otherworldly hydrothermal features and abundant wildlife, Yellowstone also has impressive waterfalls.

Astounded with what we had seen so far, we travelled on, little did we know, there were even more surprises waiting for us at the Mammoth Spring entrance of the park!

We were perplexed by the mechanism by which, these strange lattices were formed, a ranger explained that, one theory is that, thermophilic bacteria populate the surface of a rock, then the hotspring brings and deposits minerals on top of the bacteria; after which, a new layer of bacteria colonises the surface of the newly formed deposits so on and so forth. In my opinion, no matter how these structures were formed, they look cool as a cucumber!

Later on in the afternoon, the road on which we were travelling were temporarily blocked, a nearby ranger told us that there was a herd of elks crossing the area, and warned us not to approach them. Armed with a telephoto lens, it wasn’t difficult to do as we were told, after all being gored by a stag in heat didn’t sound like much fun at all!

We ended our day at the park after visiting the Lower Geyser Basin, and seeing our first grizzly bear!! However, we were too far away for a presentable shot, so I shall leave you with this…