After breakfast with the ranch family, we headed off to Yellowstone. We stayed at Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel – a historic hotel inside the park. The drive across the whole of Yellowstone was interesting. The whole eastern part of the park is burned up. For miles all you can see is burned up trees. It will be years till that part of the park recovers. We saw some wildlife – a few buffalo and some Elk, but no bears.
In this area of the park, the earth bubbles up minerals that form a strange white thick crust.
There were lots of waterfalls.
And lots of geysers and bubbling mud pits.
Old faithful was a bit disappointing, though consistent with what we have heard about it being somewhat underwhelming.