7/12/2008 Saturday
The first thing we saw in Yellowstone was the cadaver of a dead elk. The skin was not rotten, but we could not see any meat; we only saw the bones and the ripped skin. Then, soon we arrived at our first thermal feature, Firehole Spring, and its color is beautiful: clear, light blue. Judy and Mom took a not-so-good picture there; the smoke blowing to our faces was too misty. Then we followed the boardwalk and walked to Surprise Pool. It was very clean, but one can see the pool only in the pictures I took, not in those Dad took. Then we walked to Great Fountain Geyser, where we saw White Dome Geyser erupt. As a result, we hastily drove to the erupting geyser, where we discovered that eruption occur infrequently.
We drove off to a place where Hot Lake is on our left-hand side while Firehole Lake is on our right-hand side. We split up; Dad and Judy went to Firehole Lake where they saw Young Hopeful Geyser and Artesia Geyser while Mom and I marveled at Steady Geyser’s beauty. After that, we drove to Yellowstone Lake (the part in West Thumb), and on the way we saw Kepler Cascade (a waterfall. The lake looks like Crater Lake, but something different was that we saw lots of Canadian geese. We decided to eat lunch beside the lake, but unwelcoming mosquitoes went with us to eat their lunch. After lunch Judy and I climbed down the steep sand hill to the beach while Dad battled with the mosquitoes. Finally, to Dad’s relief, we decided to leave and go to Fishing Bridge, where we saw a cutthroat trout, and a cutthroat trout baby called spawn. We had a hard time to see a cutthroat trout, but spawns are easy to spot.
After the bridge, we decided to drive to the visitor center to buy gifts for our friends in Taiwan. After shopping, our bladders and my anal forced us to go to the restroom. Thankfully, the john was clean. Then we saw several Taiwanese outside the visitor center eating their delicious, tasty, and luscious lunch which they packed. How we envy them!
On our way to Lehardy’s Rapids (part of Yellowstone River), there was traffic jam because everyone was stopping to take a picture of a bison pooing. Finally, we got to the river, where there were tons of disgusting insects and tons of brave, interesting cutthroat trout swimming upstream.
Later on we drove to Mud Volcano for a ranger talk about Dragon Mouth Spring, which looks like the entrance of hell, Mud Volcano (it is not a volcano but once looked like one), Sour Lake, Black Dragon Geyser, Churning Caldron, and Sizzling Basin. Between Churning Caldron and Sizzling Basin, we saw a bison. On our way back to the hotel, we saw something called the elk antler.
The first thing we saw in Yellowstone was the cadaver of a dead elk. The skin was not rotten, but we could not see any meat; we only saw the bones and the ripped skin. Then, soon we arrived at our first thermal feature, Firehole Spring, and its color is beautiful: clear, light blue. Judy and Mom took a not-so-good picture there; the smoke blowing to our faces was too misty. Then we followed the boardwalk and walked to Surprise Pool. It was very clean, but one can see the pool only in the pictures I took, not in those Dad took. Then we walked to Great Fountain Geyser, where we saw White Dome Geyser erupt. As a result, we hastily drove to the erupting geyser, where we discovered that eruption occur infrequently.
We drove off to a place where Hot Lake is on our left-hand side while Firehole Lake is on our right-hand side. We split up; Dad and Judy went to Firehole Lake where they saw Young Hopeful Geyser and Artesia Geyser while Mom and I marveled at Steady Geyser’s beauty. After that, we drove to Yellowstone Lake (the part in West Thumb), and on the way we saw Kepler Cascade (a waterfall. The lake looks like Crater Lake, but something different was that we saw lots of Canadian geese. We decided to eat lunch beside the lake, but unwelcoming mosquitoes went with us to eat their lunch. After lunch Judy and I climbed down the steep sand hill to the beach while Dad battled with the mosquitoes. Finally, to Dad’s relief, we decided to leave and go to Fishing Bridge, where we saw a cutthroat trout, and a cutthroat trout baby called spawn. We had a hard time to see a cutthroat trout, but spawns are easy to spot.
After the bridge, we decided to drive to the visitor center to buy gifts for our friends in Taiwan. After shopping, our bladders and my anal forced us to go to the restroom. Thankfully, the john was clean. Then we saw several Taiwanese outside the visitor center eating their delicious, tasty, and luscious lunch which they packed. How we envy them!
On our way to Lehardy’s Rapids (part of Yellowstone River), there was traffic jam because everyone was stopping to take a picture of a bison pooing. Finally, we got to the river, where there were tons of disgusting insects and tons of brave, interesting cutthroat trout swimming upstream.
Later on we drove to Mud Volcano for a ranger talk about Dragon Mouth Spring, which looks like the entrance of hell, Mud Volcano (it is not a volcano but once looked like one), Sour Lake, Black Dragon Geyser, Churning Caldron, and Sizzling Basin. Between Churning Caldron and Sizzling Basin, we saw a bison. On our way back to the hotel, we saw something called the elk antler.
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