Part 3 - Midway, Lower & West Thumb Geyser Basins

Part 1 - Old Faithful Inn & Wildlife

Part 2 - Geysers Old Faithful Area

Part 4 - Grand Canyon of Yellowstone

Lower Geyser Basin 

Great Fountain...

Travertine terraces revealed during a lull...

 

Geothermal bacteria in a nearby pool...

Fountain Paint Pot Trail

A tree in the bacterial overflow from Silex Spring...

 

Bubbling mud at Fountain Paint Pot...

Miche near a dormant Spasm, while Clepsydra erupts in the background... 

 

Clepsydra up close...

 

Grand Prismatic Spring (largest hot spring in Yellowstone - 300 feet across)...

We'd climbed the hill opposite to try and get a better view into the blue waters... Aerial pictures of it are truly amazing...

Terraces created by the spring's overflow...

 

An unnamed pool next to where we parked the car...

 

 

Fishing cone on the shores of Yellowstone Lake...

Big Cone...

 

Black Pool...

 

Part 1 - Old Faithful Inn & Wildlife

Part 2 - Geysers - Old Faithful area

Part 4 - Grand Canyon of Yellowstone