Betty and I had a nice drive up the great plains to Yellowstone. We camped at Bridge Bay in a tent site after signing the mandatory Grizzly bear area warning. Our camp site was at 7800 feet, which meant hard breathing and cold nights! Betty limited her picture taking as the camera can not do justice to the scenery. This shot was the Yellowstone River just off Yellowstone Lake at the 5:30 am start of a tour to teach us outdoors photography.
Our tour was delayed a bit and we skipped most of the wild flower shots because we came across this Grizzly and watched her for more than an hour. We followed her slowly in our 1938 tour bus and watched her eat grasses, dig up roots and meander along. As we watched, 100 yards down the side of the road in the direction she was traveling, came a doe with two fawns. they were distracted by us and got pretty close before they spotted each other. After a short chase, the bear gave up as the doe and fawns high tailed it.
A mangy coyote in the road.
This is my favorite shot of Old Faithful, sitting on the second story patio of the Old Faithful Lodge, sipping a Moose Drool Pale Ale!
We spent several hours getting stone and dirt removed from Betty's hand and knee and x-rays from a fall after a late night Rangers program. The fall was bad enough, but it was stopped by hitting her head and shoulder on the concrete wall of the rest room. This and the long hikes probably brought on the Mountain (altitude) Sickness.
Another natural bridge! I actually climbed up into the waterfalls, but mosquito's attacking my camera person made her miss it.
Lot's of waterfalls.
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This guy came within about three feet of us on our motorcycle, Betty was not thrilled!
She was also more than a little excited with the 1200 foot drop from our motorcycle with rocks as the guard rail.
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