More Geyser Action

View of Kepler Cascades

 

Cooper headed back to Bark City for the day…his last until next winter.  We decided to head back to West Yellowstone and complete the geyser tour.  Black Sand Basin is another boardwalk path along a series of geysers and set up against a creek.  It did have one fountain type geyser, but it was mostly a series of bubbling pools of hot water. 

Small section of Sunset Lake



Cliff Geyser

Emerald Pool

River section

 

More Cliff Geyser
 

 

For the trip back to Bozeman we chose to head out the north entrance in Gardiner.  More likely to spot buffalo or maybe even a wolf.  No luck on the wolf, but there were a couple of large male elk wandering through a recently burned out section of forest.  One of them was very corporative and largely ignored the gathering crowd.  We watched him until he decided he’d rather cross the road.
 

 

Buffalo sitting by his personal sauna

We headed on around the Grand Loop Road towards the North Entrance at Gardiner…huckleberry ice cream was calling us at Yellowstone Perk.  Of course we did get sidetracked by the herd of buffalo in Hidden Valley…not as many as Lamar, but no less spectacular to watch.  As unbelievable as it may seem the stop at Perk was our first of the trip for a waffle cone…now huckleberry ice cream sandwiches are a different story.

Then joined by a few friends