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Monday, September 30, 2019 - Yesterday we traveled the western side of Yellowstone Park - today the eastern side.

wyoming2019 — We begin at Yellowstone Lake, which has hot springs on its shores. And snow capped mountains feeding it water in the distance.

wyoming2019 — Our next geothermal feature was the Mud Geyser area.

This is a hot spring running next to the trail.

wyoming2019 — Algae bathed by the hot water then flowing into a small stream.

wyoming2019 — Black Dragons Cauldron was more muddy brown. A big pool of muddy hot water with this water churning in the center.

wyoming2019 — Churning Calderon was very hard to get an "action" shot as the steam was so thick. Here you can see the hot water churning violently.

wyoming2019 — Steam in the trees - Angie took a much better picture of the steam and the forest.

This particular area required a bit of a hike which was nice. The steam in the forest was so unusual.

wyoming2019 — The Grizzly Fumarole has enough water to create mud pots - thick clay mud which bubbles and pops. I took hundreds of pictures to catch them in action.

wyoming2019 — Mud Pot frozen in action. I really like Mud Pots.

wyoming2019 — Foothills across the Yellowstone River.

wyoming2019 — The mud churns out of Mud Volcano - in very strong bursts.

wyoming2019 — A small stream with a bubbling hot spring. Green algae covers the bottom rocks of the stream.

wyoming2019 — The steam makes a unique howling noise coming out of Dragon's Mouth Spring.

wyoming2019 — Hot water flows near the parking lot in bright blue algae ribbon.

wyoming2019 — Cal running around the Mud Geyser area.

wyoming2019 — The Yellowstone River.

wyoming2019 — The Yellowstone River flowing through Hayden Valley.

wyoming2019 — As we were driving into Upper Falls access road a bison crossed our path. We followed it into a parking turnoff and parked. There was light snow at the time. The big guy suddenly dropped and rolled on the ground - then popped up and walked away.

wyoming2019 — Joe and Angie posing with Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in the background.

wyoming2019 — Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River - this is the Yellowstone River dropping 308 feet - twice as high as Niagara Falls.

wyoming2019 — This little tree growing on a small rock outcrop.

wyoming2019 — Virginia Ann at Lower Falls of the Yellowstone.

She does not like this picture but I think she is cute all bundled up.

wyoming2019 — Hundreds of pine trees in snow.

wyoming2019 — Snow fell all day as we explored Yellowstone.

wyoming2019 — We drove across the park to the West side heading back to the hotel. We stopped at the Artist Paint Pots area in Gibbon Geyser Basin.

On the trail into the area we crossed a hot water spring with long waves of algae.

wyoming2019 — The Artist Paint Pots area with geothermal features everywhere. Mostly hot springs.

wyoming2019 — A hot springs bubbles and steams.

wyoming2019 — The hot water and algae creates a red stream.

wyoming2019 — With all the steam the side of the mountain looks something like a war zone.

wyoming2019 — The earth is simply cracked with hot water bubbling up creating blue and red patterns.

wyoming2019 — A little mound of rock with steam coming out - red soil surrounding the fumarole.

wyoming2019 — My favorite - Mud Pots. Again hundreds of pictures to get a few of the mud bubbling.

wyoming2019 — Mud bubble bursting.

wyoming2019 — Mud spout.

wyoming2019 — This is a picture along the Artist Paint Pots trail.

wyoming2019 — An odd feature with mud bubbling up from under a rock.

wyoming2019 — Blue pool of hot water.

wyoming2019 — Closer to the hotel was Gibbon Falls.

The Gibbons River drops 84 feet over Gibbon Falls.

wyoming2019 — We came to a group of cars on the side of the road - a good sign of animals. As we pulled over we were told there was something crossing the river. Hurrying to the river, we learned there was a wolf on the other side watching these elk. Joe was the only one in our party who saw the wolf.

Here are the two elk looking nervous standing in Firehole River.

wyoming2019 — We came on several bison - this is a very little bison with very little horns.

These pictures were taken out of the car window - and I was driving!!!

wyoming2019 — A big bison in the trees.

wyoming2019 — We decided to stop at Grand Prismatic Spring as the weather was better than the first time we stopped - when it was snowing and very cold.

This is the hot water flowing into the Firehole River

wyoming2019 — The Firehole River.

wyoming2019 — Algae in the hot springs.

wyoming2019 — The edge of Grand Prismatic Spring where the orange algae meets the deeper blue water.

wyoming2019 — Grand Prismatic Spring - the steam made photographs hard as we had to wait until the wind blew the right way.

wyoming2019 — Virginia Ann on the boardwalk trying to see the photographer.

wyoming2019 — Water streaming away from Grand Prismatic Spring in a characteristic green flow.

wyoming2019 — A much smaller pool - Turquoise Pool - has a deep drop-off.

wyoming2019 — Hot water from all the water features flowing into Firehole River.

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