Family Vacation 2011 Pictures- Part 5
For the post that goes with these pictures read: Family Vacation 2011- Part 5.
Bacterial mats are everywhere. The colors come from what bacteria are inhabiting the water and correlate with what temperature the water is. The bluer the water the hotter it is. The orange and red are cooler temperatures, but still hot, and have different bacteria and organisms.
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This spring is what fed the previous bacteria mat.
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Twig Geyser. (These pictures come from Fountain Paint Pot.)
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Scenery at Fountain Paint Pot.
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Excelsior Geyser. See the people on the other side, that gives you an idea of how large this geyser basin is.
The Grand Prismatic Spring. It was so steamy you couldn’t really see to the other side. I was sad that I wasn’t able to see it well.
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Then I read the sign that said it is often cloaked in steam. (I thought I’d get a better view, something similar to the picture, but from the ground.)
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A cool picture of one of the other springs in the same area, the Midway Geyser Basin.
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Lilah really wanted a picture of us walking into the steam, ironically she was walking in front of me and cannot be seen.
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Firehole Spring. It was really cool to sit and watch because it had bubbles of water or air continuously coming up and erupting at the surface.
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Great Fountain Geyser, it was said that it might go off at 9-11 pm the night we saw it.
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My crazy family in front of Firehole Lake
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The moon rising over Yellowstone Lake.
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A huge heard of bison. It was the largest group we had seen. I’m pretty sure we’d seen most of them, just not together like this.
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Newest Yellowstone Junior Rangers.
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Roosevelt Arch, at the North Entrance of the park. I was so excited because I thought it was on a different entrance, and didn’t know we’d be exiting through it.
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Some of the Rocky Mountains! It was so cool to drive along side of them.