YNP day 4 am

On day 4 we headed over our next base of operation, the Canyon area.  So we got up early, went for a little walk and then headed leisurely over towards our next destination.  We stopped at Firehole Lake and Norris Geyser Basin.  Given the lack of rain out there the water table was low and many of the geysers held a lot less water than they usually do.  Nonetheless it was still spectacular. 

 

 An early morning view down the Firehole river

 Sandhill cranes

 My boy getting his shot of a geyser just before this

Norris Geyser Basin. 

YNP day 2

Day 2 was to be our first full day in the park.  We stayed in the Old Faithful area and I was up at dawn.  The air was chilly around 34 that morning.  Fires in Idaho let itself to spectacular sunrises and sunsets.  

 

 Sunrise on the upper Firehole

 Killdeer looking for food near a geyser

 A series of pictures of the Giant Prismatic Spring and it is stunning. 

 

I spent a couple of hours that afternoon on the upper Firehole, one of the few places open due to high water temps and was rewarded with some fantastic fishing for small browns and brookies.

 

 Just to prove that I was there, this is Old Faithful, doing its' thing.   It went off every 93 minutes or so and was really great to watch early in the morning or at night when there were few folks around.

 A view looking down river at sunset of the Firehole