Blogs from West Yellowstone, Montana, United States, North America - page 5

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Entering the Yellowstone Park, it was as if someone said "que the eagle" and with that an American Bald Eagle came flying down the Gardiner River, very cool! Blog from Emma: Yesterday we went to Mammoth Hot Springs. It was neat you could see steam coming from the springs and small waterfalls. The smell was horriable. :-( It smelled like boiled egg salad sandwiches that my mom makes). The water temputare was over 212 degrees farenhight! Right after that we went to Tower Falls. There we had lunch and then went on a hike to see Tower falls. We got to see it from the top but the bottom was blocked off. But there was a path to the yellow stone river that had fallen down trees on it. We climbd over them and went to ... read more

6/5/08: Our journey included a visit to West Yellowstone, and fortunately a visit to the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in the town of West Yellowstone. The scenery I include here is also from the long drive it took to get here, including scenes from the Badlands in North Dakota, and the splendid Alpine views of Wyoming. I had mixed feelings about the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center: it was great to see the habitats and the bears and wolfs seemingly enjoying themselves. These animals, for the most part, had become too interested in humans and our food/garbage, or were discovered to be a potential danger to lifestock: so now are kept safe in the sanctuary. These animals will not be released into the wild, however they looked pretty relaxed and accepting of their enclosures. It ... read more

Next we made our way into Montana, Big Sky Country. It really was quite exciting driving through the rolling hills with nary a city or even a town for miles and miles. We left the interstate a little east of Butte heading for Yellowsone National park, which occupies the South East corner of Wyoming. It was on top of our list of places to visit and what a thrill it was! So much to see, so little time. Of course, Old Faithful was a must, and we spent quite some time waiting for him to do his thing. Finally, he blew and we captured a few great pics. We could only stay the one day, so we drove through from west to east, stopping when anything drew our attention. One such event was a herd of ... read more

Long drive today - not sure but I think the longest of the trip at 572 miles, I was right with yesterdays comments about not much to see, but what was weird is the American version of UK motorway service stations or as they call them Rest Stops, all they are is toilets and a drinks machine - if you want feeding you have to stop at a town and there are signs on the Interstates which quite literally say - Food Next Exit and then tell you what food there is, be it Subway, McDonalds, Burger King etc. Anyway as I got near West Yellowstone I could see what looked like a huge cloud coming down from the sky, unfortunately it was a cloud going the other direction and is an example of what can ... read more