Today we headed back into Yellowstone NP through the west entrance. The first thing of interest that we came across was a herd of mule deer grazing in the grasslands along side of the Madison River. The Madison River follows the road to the West Entrance of the park.
We decided that we would take all of the right turn offs that we came to and see what we could fine. This below is Mount Haynes with Mark standing on a boardwalk that went down to the Madison River.
I thought that I would do something different today. I took a few photos of the wild flowers of Yellowstong NP. Below is a group of engelmann asters.
The falls below are named Gibbon Falls. There was a rail in the way of my photo. There was not an open pull off, so had to snap it from the truck window.
This is the Showboat Geyser in the Norris Geyser Basin. It put out a little spew of only a couple of feet. At least it was something. From what the sign said, it hasn't really had a good eruption in many years.
The wildflower below I think is common yarrow. It appears that most of the wildflowers are dwarfed from the heat of the thermal areas.
I believe the wildflower below is wild blue flax.
The wildflowers below are the silvery lupine. There were a lot of lupines in the Fishing Bridge Campground area.
This is a shot across the Norris Geyser Basin. The smells from these boiling fields filled with geysers and springs were all rather repulsive! They burned your nose with the sulpher smell.
All I can say about this next photo is purple mountain majesty!
I took a photo of this geyser because my mother in law's name is Pearl. This is Pearl geyser. It had amazing colors that looked like the inside of a oyster from the sea.
Here's another shot across the Norris Geyser Basin. It looks like snow in this shot, but it's actually a sooty soil caused from all of the eruptions and hot sulpher in the area.
This is a yellow wildflower that I couldn't find the name to on the chart we bought at the park.
Another mountain view from the Norris Geyser Basin.
We stopped along the side of the road when we saw a person on the other side of the road slam on their brakes. Through the trees you could see that there was a 12 point elk in the field across the river. We hurried out of the truck with our cameras and got this shot below of the beauty.
Not long after, our friends Lana and Mike showed up with Lana's dad and Alex their grandson. Once they heard that there was an elk, they jumped into action to join the fun of getting the photos. Here's a shot below of Lana, with Alex next to her, getting her shots of the Elk. I'm sure I'll see them on her blog soon. Lana and Mike are the Central Directors of our camping club, The Cedar Creek RV Club.
We decided that we would start our way back to camp as it was past 2:30 pm by now. We know how crowded the roads get later in the day. The back ups from the animals in the road can take forever to get through at times. We made it back to the West Entrance road and started taking the turn offs to the right again as we had on the way into the park. On one of the turn offs, there was a fellow with a HUGE lens camera pointed up into a tree across the river. What was it we thought. Could it be a bald eagle? It was! So we set up the spotting scope and got the cameras out. Our cameras do not shoot well at long distances. I took this one of the eagle up in the tree. It's that blob up there in the dead tree near to the top. The eagle had his wings spread out to cool itself.
The eagle took fight after several minutes and I did manage to get a photo of him, but it's still difficult to see him. He's there just to the right of the pine tree, about half way down. We were oooing and awing over this magnificant bird through the spotting scope and then Mark had a great idea.
Mark took the camera and put it up to the lens of the spotting scope and we were able to get a few close up photos of the eagle after it landed, from its fight, into a pine tree. Didn't turn out too bad for a Jerry Rigged shot!
We decided that we would take all of the right turn offs that we came to and see what we could fine. This below is Mount Haynes with Mark standing on a boardwalk that went down to the Madison River.
I thought that I would do something different today. I took a few photos of the wild flowers of Yellowstong NP. Below is a group of engelmann asters.
The falls below are named Gibbon Falls. There was a rail in the way of my photo. There was not an open pull off, so had to snap it from the truck window.
This is the Showboat Geyser in the Norris Geyser Basin. It put out a little spew of only a couple of feet. At least it was something. From what the sign said, it hasn't really had a good eruption in many years.
The wildflower below I think is common yarrow. It appears that most of the wildflowers are dwarfed from the heat of the thermal areas.
I believe the wildflower below is wild blue flax.
The wildflowers below are the silvery lupine. There were a lot of lupines in the Fishing Bridge Campground area.
This is a shot across the Norris Geyser Basin. The smells from these boiling fields filled with geysers and springs were all rather repulsive! They burned your nose with the sulpher smell.
All I can say about this next photo is purple mountain majesty!
I took a photo of this geyser because my mother in law's name is Pearl. This is Pearl geyser. It had amazing colors that looked like the inside of a oyster from the sea.
Here's another shot across the Norris Geyser Basin. It looks like snow in this shot, but it's actually a sooty soil caused from all of the eruptions and hot sulpher in the area.
This is a yellow wildflower that I couldn't find the name to on the chart we bought at the park.
Another mountain view from the Norris Geyser Basin.
We stopped along the side of the road when we saw a person on the other side of the road slam on their brakes. Through the trees you could see that there was a 12 point elk in the field across the river. We hurried out of the truck with our cameras and got this shot below of the beauty. Not long after, our friends Lana and Mike showed up with Lana's dad and Alex their grandson. Once they heard that there was an elk, they jumped into action to join the fun of getting the photos. Here's a shot below of Lana, with Alex next to her, getting her shots of the Elk. I'm sure I'll see them on her blog soon. Lana and Mike are the Central Directors of our camping club, The Cedar Creek RV Club.
We decided that we would start our way back to camp as it was past 2:30 pm by now. We know how crowded the roads get later in the day. The back ups from the animals in the road can take forever to get through at times. We made it back to the West Entrance road and started taking the turn offs to the right again as we had on the way into the park. On one of the turn offs, there was a fellow with a HUGE lens camera pointed up into a tree across the river. What was it we thought. Could it be a bald eagle? It was! So we set up the spotting scope and got the cameras out. Our cameras do not shoot well at long distances. I took this one of the eagle up in the tree. It's that blob up there in the dead tree near to the top. The eagle had his wings spread out to cool itself.
The eagle took fight after several minutes and I did manage to get a photo of him, but it's still difficult to see him. He's there just to the right of the pine tree, about half way down. We were oooing and awing over this magnificant bird through the spotting scope and then Mark had a great idea.
Mark took the camera and put it up to the lens of the spotting scope and we were able to get a few close up photos of the eagle after it landed, from its fight, into a pine tree. Didn't turn out too bad for a Jerry Rigged shot! We couldn't wait to get back to see if the shot came out. Isn't he a beauty?
This is a shot of the river with the mountains where we sat watching the bald eagle.
One last shot of a wildflower along the road. Not sure what it is really, but it was a tan color.
We hope to have a picnic tomorrow with Mike and Lana somewhere along a river or lake so that they can do some fishing. Sounds like a nice relaxing day. Sure looking forward to it.
This is a shot of the river with the mountains where we sat watching the bald eagle.
One last shot of a wildflower along the road. Not sure what it is really, but it was a tan color.
We hope to have a picnic tomorrow with Mike and Lana somewhere along a river or lake so that they can do some fishing. Sounds like a nice relaxing day. Sure looking forward to it.Happy travels to all!
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Sandy that Eagle pic with the spotting scope is awesome!
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