27/06/16
Up and off early to spend a full day exploring Yellowstone, located in the state of Wyoming. Basically a desert. We stopped a couple of times on our way to the main focuses of the park for quick toilet stop and photo opportunities. One of the places we stopped off had this beautiful view of a small beach looking onto a massive lake.
The reason why we set off so early was to hopefully catch some wildlife. You know, bison, maybe a deer... we saw two grizzly bears! A mum and its baby.. it was so cute! We made sure we stayed at least 100m away from them though as they can be very dangerous if the mumma is being protective over her little one. It was still amazing. I took a few photos but my camera wasn't clear enough, however, if you look closely you might be able to see them in the middle back behind a log :)
Next stop was the most interesting, yet terrifying experience ever. So it was kinda the first time we had seen bison, which is an animal which looks like a massive bull with horns, it's hard to explain just look at the photo. Anyway, they were chilling behind this fence so we were like omg! a bison! and obviously went to take photos. The park ranger told us to stay 25m away, which we did.. but then these 3 bison decide to jump the fence. So we obviously ran like the little girls we are, whilst the park ranger shouted "EVERYONE GET INTO YOUR VEHICLES". Our bus wasn't close. We ran with a terrified giggle. These 3 bison then decided to peg it towards us, so we ran onto a bridge towards a secluded path. Thankfully the 3 bison decided not to come up that way even though it first looked like they were following us. Shortly after that first scare, there was another bison looking very angry near us on the path. It then decided to peg it towards us again, but luckily running past us about 10m away. It's never good when your tour guide is also scared and cursing hahaha. I think it took us a good hour to calm down after this, we thought this was the end hahaha. We can laugh now. Here they are in all their glory. We're not the biggest fans of bisons anymore to say the least.
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| Being good behind the fence |
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| Being naughty not behind the fence |
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| Thankfully running away from us
After that eventful morning, the afternoon was much more peaceful. We went hiking for a few hours and visited Uncle Tom's Trail, which ended about 320 steps down to a beautiful waterfall where there was two rainbows created where the water hit the pool below. It was worth all those stairs for the view at the bottom. We then hiked some more and saw more beautiful views. We also stopped at many sites where there were active geysers. Finally, our last stop was the see the most famous geyser in the world, Old Faithful, which erupt varies from every 40 minutes to 126 minutes Luckily we just got there in time to see it erupt! Here are some photos of the beautiful views and geysers I saw :) This has been my favourite place so far.
   
Grand Prismatic
    
Old Faithful erupting
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