Yellowstone National Park - Biscuit Basin

Today was going to be a day we planned to do nothing!  Mike had read a blog that our ‘new friends’ had published.  In it they raved about one of the sites we passed up in Yellowstone since we had seen it on a previous trip.  It was their favorite one in the park, so we decided to go see it again.  We took off early afternoon and we are glad we went to see it as it is still gorgeous. 

Very shortly after entering the park we spotted two bison right by the road and Judy was able to get a great picture of them out the window of the truck.

We went to Biscuit Basin where it was extremely windy but worth the walk on the boardwalk taking us around all the different springs and geysers there.  This thermal basin is particularly volatile and unpredictable.  In August 1959 an earthquake recorded at 7.5 on the Richter scale had its epicenter just a few miles to the northwest of B.B.  Four days later Sapphire Pool began to erupt violently, blowing away the large rock biscuits around the crater.  Biscuit Basin was named for those biscuit-shaped mineral formations.  Sapphire Pool was sooooooo turquois/blue it was extremely beautiful, and you could see quite far down into it.  We saw Avoca Springs, Shell Spring, Jewel Geyser, and many in between.  We saw waters running, geysers spewing steam, some directing water high into the air; all different and very interesting.

This morning we had the heat on, this afternoon when we returned from the park we had the air conditioner on, this evening it seemed cool so we opened the windows to let in the fresh cool air!  By 8:00 we had to close the windows because it was getting really cool.  We’re loving it!