We fed the fish, some ducks and some muskrats.
We stayed at the WorldMark West Yellowstone Resort that night. Early the next morning we took off for Yellowstone National Park. Randy couldn't remember going to Mammoth, so we decided we would go that way instead of the usual Old Faithful route.
We hadn't gone very far before we saw some Elk. They were pretty far away, but Randy zoomed in and got a pretty good picture.
We saw a really pretty waterfall.
When we got to road we were going to take, it was closed for maintenance. We went into a Visitor Center, and a Ranger told us to take another route. We ended up going to The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. When we pulled into the parking lot, there were 3 ranger pickups and a bunch of rangers, one had a rifle on her shoulder. We found out that there had been a bear lounging on the rocks by the pathway, and he had moved to some rocks just below the path. The rangers were going to shoot what they called fire cracker shots to get the bear to move down further into the canyon. They roped off the pathway and made us all move back toward the parking lot. Then they took a shot toward the bear. The bear didn't move down, but up a little incline, right in front of where we were standing. We actually got to see the bear!
There he goes, just lumbering along.
We saw buffalo on our way to Mammoth. One was just walking down the road.
The Mammoth resident Elk.
After we left Mammoth, we drove out of the Park to the north, and stayed at a Residence Inn in Bozeman. We found a school and played some tennis and ate at Outback Steakhouse. We got up Sunday morning and found a Sacrament Meeting to attend, then headed home. We decided to go home on I15 instead of going back through Island Park. We stopped in Dillon and had a little picnic, then headed home. It was a fun little trip.
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fun little trip. nice that you got to see lots of different animals.
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