Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Yellowstone National Park

We had a jam packed day today.  To start off we headed to the Grizzly and wolf discovery centre where we got to see Grizzly Bears and wolves and learn a bit about them.  The guide told us all kinds of information about how they came to be at the centre.  Once we finished at the centre we saw an Imax about the first discovery of Yellowstone park and all the pretty features it has in it,  It was pretty interesting.  We headed into the park after that where our first stop was Lower and Upper Falls.  We got dropped off at Lower falls and it was beautiful, the vantage point is on a cliff in front of the falls so we got fantastic views.  To get to the upper falls we hiked along a trail that cut really close to the edge of the cliffs, it was very scary for me I didn't like it much.  Upper falls were just as beautiful and we got some great photos of both of them.  The bus picked us up from the upper falls and we continued along to Mammoth Hot Springs, along the way we had to stop because there were some mountain goats on the road with babies, they were very very cute.  We eventually reached the hot springs and we got to wander around them, it was a really big walk with a lot of steps.  We didn't make it all the way to the top but we came close and the springs smelt really bad from all the sulfer and there was a lot of steam coming out from the water.  It was very interesting to see.  Once we finished at the hot springs we headed back to our hotel.  Along the way we saw Elk and deer out on the plains, it was very cool.  The only thing we didn't see was a bear and that was just fine with me.  We eventually reached our hotel and we all had a quiet night at the hotel bar with pizza and drinks.  It was good because the next morning (Wednesday) we had a massive 12 hour drive to do.  We stopped at Grand Teton National park which is a massive mountain range that was just beautiful, very picturesque.  We got some great photos.  We stopped in Jackson for lunch and it was a pretty little town set in a valley.  Other then those two stops and a couple of smaller ones we were on the bus for the rest of the time.  We eventually reached our hotel in Salt Lake City about 6:30pm.  We didn't really do much once we got here except go out for dinner.  Katrina did decide to go out for drinks so we'll see what time she gets home.  Tomorrow we head to Kanab for 2 nights.

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