Day 20 - Yellowstone National Park

Together with the time zone shift (-1 h) we managed to sleep in till 11 am. We entered through the Western Entrance after acquiring a weekly pass for 25 USD. The first stop brought us close to living caribous and a nice river landscape with a beautiful red dragonfly.
The next stop was already a geothermal one with hot springs and colorful thermopile algae and bacteria. Then we did a small back country track including a river crossing. On the riverbanks we found a dead caribou which dad nearly stepped onto. After a pizza we watched OLD FAITHFUL erupt. Then we tipped our toes into Lake Yellowstone at the West Thump basin, which was disapproved by one of the park rangers. Next was the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone with the Upper and Lower Falls. The canyon has really walls of yellow rock !!! Dad hiked down to Uncle Tom’s view point while I recovered from sore Achilles ligaments. The day’s excitements ended with spotting a few bison and apparently a sleeping grizzle in the distance.