Thursday, October 26, 2006
National Park Adventure
Ok let us get this straight. Yogi Bear - Jellystone Park. Rhod and Anna - Yellowstone Park. Is every body clear with that?
Yellowstone Park contains half of the world's geysers compared to London's east end which holds all of the world's geezers.
Now in London if you heard someone say "There's a geezer over there about to blow" it would prompt other people to say things like "Leave it aaaaaatttt" and "It ain't wurrrfff it!" However, in Yellowstone Park if someone says "There's a geyser over there about to blow" it would prompt alot of tourists to pick up their cameras and run to watch.
Yellowstone is not busy at this time of the year. The statement that the park is open is true but what it neglects to mention is that all but 2 visitor centres have closed down. Only 4 camp grounds are open, you can't buy any groceries and you can't buy any fuel. Luckily we had the RV well stocked up prior to entry so the only real problem this caused us was not really being able to find out any information. We survived staying out in the wilderness which might not seem such a great feat considering the luxury of the RV but when the temperature drops to -12 deg C I can assure you that even stuff on the inside of the RV freezes. We've had a few mornings fighting with frozen dump valves but we have lived to tell the tale. We did have 3 perfectly clear days in the parks so we even managed to take one or two photos.
A snowy Yellowstone Park:
Old Faithful Geyser:
Morning Glory Pool:
Bull Elk:
Bull Elk rutting:
A frosty Bison:
Grand Teton National Park:
Despite the collar this is not a large ugly dog. It's a female moose:
We still haven't seen a bear so this will have to do for now:
Yellowstone Park contains half of the world's geysers compared to London's east end which holds all of the world's geezers.
Now in London if you heard someone say "There's a geezer over there about to blow" it would prompt other people to say things like "Leave it aaaaaatttt" and "It ain't wurrrfff it!" However, in Yellowstone Park if someone says "There's a geyser over there about to blow" it would prompt alot of tourists to pick up their cameras and run to watch.
Yellowstone is not busy at this time of the year. The statement that the park is open is true but what it neglects to mention is that all but 2 visitor centres have closed down. Only 4 camp grounds are open, you can't buy any groceries and you can't buy any fuel. Luckily we had the RV well stocked up prior to entry so the only real problem this caused us was not really being able to find out any information. We survived staying out in the wilderness which might not seem such a great feat considering the luxury of the RV but when the temperature drops to -12 deg C I can assure you that even stuff on the inside of the RV freezes. We've had a few mornings fighting with frozen dump valves but we have lived to tell the tale. We did have 3 perfectly clear days in the parks so we even managed to take one or two photos.
A snowy Yellowstone Park:
Old Faithful Geyser:
Morning Glory Pool:
Bull Elk:
Bull Elk rutting:
A frosty Bison:
Grand Teton National Park:
Despite the collar this is not a large ugly dog. It's a female moose:
We still haven't seen a bear so this will have to do for now:
# posted by Rhodri @ 7:31 pm 
