Yellowstone National Park - part 1

After the kind wapitis of Glacier National Park, we crossed Montana from North to South to reach Yellowstone

To start this album, I hesitated between 3 pictures : this one yellow ! This red-one, because it is also very Yellowstone and this green-one too . These pictures are Yellowstone, with so many colors, Yellowstone is the first US National Park (1872), and spans on 3468mi2 (8983Km2) A 58 miles square (un carre de 94 Km de cote), a crater 1 km deep (2/3mi) , and 52 by 28 miles (85 by 45 Km) wide,and 2/3 of the worlds's geysers .... and many bisons ! They do not look that big, that mean on these pictures, but keep in mind that they are bigger than a car, weight around 2000lbs and run 45km/h (30mi/h) , much faster than me ! Hopefully, they do prefer this grass to people ! Yellowstone host 2 thirds of the world's geysers, that's a lot ! And very colorful also , sometimes due to minerals, sometimes due to bacterias They all vary in shape, depth, colour, steam or sprays, width but they all smell horrible ! Some have one colorinside, and bacterias outside Some are mixing colours like painters.Some are extinct, but show you why not ... .. walk outside of the wooden pathways. The crust can hold its weight, no more ! And 100m further, one can find a lovely marmot having lunch constantly checking the surroundings keeping an eye on the 2-legs-1-big-eye, animal and ready to disappear in a blink What a strange animal ! Yellowstone is constantly changing its appearance, from a calm river to tall and noisy waterfall to simple meadows, appeasing, relaxing . This constant variety ( what a term ! ) makes Yellowstone even larger due to so many different types of landscapes , unexpected or totally unusual by the size, the texture or the colour The chipmunks hopefully remain as cute and as funny as elsewhere This is one feature of Yellowstone : the wildlife is more present This is the place we 've seen so many different animals and where we could approach them the closest ... with some limits , of course ! Boiling water flows to the river , and warm it up . Interesting in winter ! Peace and Serenity Seems more curious about us than afraid Or likes to pose for photographers ! the variety of landscapes entails the variety of animals for the greatest pleasure of the eyes and for the succession of feelings , like waves . How do you feel seeing this ? 15 or 20 meters afar ! A look, then turns its back and calmly crosses the river So ? How do you feel ?