Wyoming

Entering yellowstone national park. Bubbling things here we come. Yellowstone national park was actually one massive volcano a long time ago. Anyone who has watched the b grade movie, supervolcano, will already know that.

The first critter that we actually saw was very unexpected. A 1 foot long snake crawling across the sand.

The walkways make it very easy and safe to walk around the hot stuff without falling in.

But occasionally some children run off and can't find their mummy and daddy. Luckily that sort of thing would never happen to us.

The blue bits of water apparently the hottest towards the centre of the pools.

It is amazing how long you can stand next to a bubbling pool of mud taking lots of photos and still never capture it.

We were listening to arrange a talk about guys is when all of a sudden some steam started coming out of the ground behind her.

We didn't see very many bison. I had to chase this one a little bit to catch photo. Olivia likes to call them muscle man.

Just your everyday drive down the street with an elk across the front of the car

Straight out of jellystone we came across grand teton national park to the south. The weather was starting to get very rainy looking.

Before it rained we managed to set up the tent and start a fire.

That night after the storm we went for a walk down to the beach next to an awesome lake. Olivia was very excited when she found a brown rock.

The next morning we had several visitors on the tent obviously trying to get out of the rain.

Instead of standing around in the rain at grand teton we decided to blast through wyoming. We were heading for a climbing spot called wild iris. It is a set of cliffs at over 10000 feet.

We got in a couple of climbs before the weather started closing in again. As we were walking back to the car about 1 and a half miles we heard third lots of thunder and there was lots of lightning and rain.

Despite the storm and the fact that we couldn't see where we were going other than by the track, the walk back was very enjoyable.

Heading east once more through wyoming we noticed lots of different types of landscapes. This photo was of the granite mountains.

Further along near the continental divide there were lots of places where you could see the ground had risen up.

It is amazing what millions and millions of years will do.

end note. If anyone is ever thinking of stopping in a town called rawlings think again. But if you must never ever go into a diner called cactus jacks where sa heavily pierced waitress will grouch around and a very unqualified cook called Ernie will make you burnt steak, burnt salmon and inedible other foods. If you are in a place where the waitress never comes and ask the other guests how their food is, leave.