We arrive at the wolves hunting scene and find no evidence of a killing, no carcass in sight. Everything looks peaceful in the prairie, it's so very different from the night before. Just think of what goes on at night in the wild, while us humans sleep peacefully.
On our way back to the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone we see a herd of bisons, so we stop to watch them from a safe distance and to our amazement, two of them get into a bull fight. Petr is ready with the videocamera and records the whole scene, I observe with the binoculars and take a few shots with the still camera. We could almost put together a nature documentary with what we witnessed yesterday and today. This is getting better and better.
Back to the Canyon: we find it even more majestic than the night before. Lower Falls is over 300 ft tall and I just can't stop staring at it from every angle. Yellowstone is also a park of waterfalls, the brochure says there are hundreds of them scattered in all the counties. By the time we leave the park, we have probably seen only 5 or 6 of them. This is a park you can keep coming back to, and still have the feeling that you are just starting to discover its beauty.
We have walked a lot on boardwalks, designed to lead tourists to the major points of interest, and by the end of the day, we actually do feel tired. Just like walking a museum, you don't cover much distance, but the micro-walking actually hurts your back a lot more! So we spend the rest of the day walking along the canyon and driving through the Tower Roosevelt county, which will eventually drive us out of the park through Gardiner into Big Sky Montana.
Fumes rising up in the air from a nearby hot spring, with an osprey perched on a branch.
Bull fight.
The rest of the herd didn't care much.
A first glimpse of the canyon.
The canyon as it opened up to our eyes to the left...
and to the right.
Lower Falls.
Laura and Petr.
Another view of the canyon from Artist's Point.
And another.
Going down into the canyon and looking up.
Laura by a funny-looking tree (we need to lighten this).
A view from Mt. Washburn, the tallest peak in Yellowstone (about 10,000 ft).
Elks sleeping in a public garden at Tower Junction.
They were really sleepy heads.
Entering Montana!