MONDAY IN YELLOWSTONE~ Day 3

Not long after driving into the Park on Monday morning, we spotted a herd of Elk. There were 14 of them so we pulled over and got a picture!

Up the road a bit more we saw our 1st Bison. We got out of the car and took a picture. He was alone and there were several people standing on the side of the road taking his picture.

We got into the stops (which were MANY) along the way to Old Faithful and we walked all the wooden paths to look at the beautiful blue geysers  ......

And the not so blue places that outlined many of them..... found out later that is it micro organisms that have managed to grow in the hot hot water! 

We sat and watched Old Faithful and then after she blew we visited all the buildings in the town of Old Faithful. We went to the Lodge, the Visitors Center, the Inn etc etc.....  We also took the hike behind the geyser and saw A LOT MORE GEYSERS!!!!!

Here's a bubbling hot tub.  Wouldn't want to soak in this one!!!

There are the mud pots that have that wonderful sulphur smell that I remember so well from my youth!!

And we watched Old Faithful from the back side which was even more impressive than from the front. We actually saw her blow 3 times while we were in the town of Old Faithful. Pretty cool!

And yet another form of wildlife in the Park. Not sure what kind of foul it is but it's a bird of prey!

And thar she blows again!!!

There were a lot of cool geysers on the walk we took. I can't remember the names however but they were fun to watch!

This is Morning Glory!! I told Tony that all I remembered from my childhood at Yellowstone was Old Faithful and Morning Glory Pool. It was so disappointing because STUPID PEOPLE have thrown garbage into it and because of that her vent is clogged and her color is no longer the pure aqua blue that it was. It use to be blue from the edge to the center and a radiant blue that was exquisite.  Now algae has started growing because of the crap that was thrown in. It makes me so mad that people destroy the beauty of nature. 

And yet another little creature of the Park! Chipmunks are so cute! And not so scary as some of the things you can encounter in Yellowstone!  lol

On our way out of the Park on Monday we got into a HUGE BACKED UP TRAFFIC JAM! Again, people are asked to pull over if they see an animal they want to take a picture of and NOT TO HOLD UP TRAFFIC!! Well, we were so far back that we had no idea what was causing the traffic jam. People were getting out of their cars and walking up the road to see what was up!! 45 minutes later people started walking back and I asked one gal "what's the holdup"  She said" it's Bison" ....so we thought there must be a herd in the road! When the cars finally started moving and we were able to get up the road quite a ways, we see ONE BISON eating along the road and a Ranger sitting in his car flagging the cars to keep moving..... Dang people! Why can't they obey the rules! It was very frustrating to us!!