Steam and water fountains

Early in the morning as usual (you know that the truth is different) we started to Yellowstone Nationalpark. We were lucky to go to the Visitors Office first (although Andi though that it’s not important to go there *g*), were a Ranger told us everything about the sights and the eruption times of the geysers. As soon as we entered the park, we started to take a lot of pictures – the landscape was simply fascinating. When we looked at those pictures afterwards, we didn’t find it so fascinating anymore – there were much more interesting things at that day. That started with a deer and a bunch of does, which we saw because of a good hint of my friend Nina. She told us to stop immediately when there are a lot of cars standing besides the road – and so did we.

Our Yellowstone tour started with a trip to Geyser Country, where we saw the famous Old Faithful Geyser erupting. It isn’t so famous because of its size, but because the highly periodic eruptions in an interval of 92 minutes. See our Yellowstone photo album for some pictures. Of course, we visited all the other sights like Morning Glory Pool which is very colourful (orange, blue, red, yellow, green) because of its many bacteria cultures.

At this day, we continued to drive as south as Grant Village, where we met a real American spy. He told us about the capital of the spies, which is or was in his eyes Vienna. However, he gave us a lot of interesting hints and we had fun. We also met a guy who was born in Schärding in Upper Austria (next to my grandma, where the cheese is produced) – yeah, the world is obviously very little. By the way, we got in touch with him because of Andis “trau di” and my “inigüxla” T-Shirt (Walchlible).

Following a hint of the ranger, we returned to the Geyser area again to watch the largest predictable geyser called Grand Geyser erupting at 7:30pm. We were already near, when a buffalo blocked our way and we couldn’t pass. So we had to wait until the huge animal decided to stop eating, but we still made it in time. This special geyser has a time frame of 4 hours around the predicted time; however we didn’t have to wait a long time for the show to start. We are proud to tell you that we’re some of the only people on earth that saw Grand Geyser erupting, shooting water in about four different fountains of about 50m height. It lasted 15 minutes, then it stopped so suddenly as it had started.

On our way back to the campground, we took a shortcut (ok, it was little longer than the regular way) to see Firehole Lake during sunset. Just a reminder, you can see that in our pictures. Without any more bear contacts we fell asleep – because we already knew, that it was our neighbour again who snored all the time. An incredible day was over and another one to come.