June 3, 2017

Wow, what a busy great two days. Thursday was our last day in the Tetons and we picked Kate up in Yellowstone at the Old Faithful Inn and returned to Moose.  Friday after breakfast in Jackson Hole, we traveled to our house in Gardiner. It is a beautiful house and sits next to the Yellowstone River. The river is very full and swift and we just watched two loaded rafts of happy people float by.  Today we were up at 4am for our wolf tour.  Our tour guide, Evan, was a great story teller and quite good at spotting animals of all sorts including wolves, but these were at a great distance.    Here are pictures from the last two days. Enjoy, we sure did.

Clouds around the peak of Grand Teton.

Departure view of the Tetons.

Traveling through the Old Faithful area we took some pictures of geysers and hot springs.  The one below is called Dragons Mouth Spring.

The Black Pool has a beautiful blue color.

The colors are from various bacteria.  Bacteria thrive at different temperatures so the colors are dependent on the type of bacteria and the temperature of the hot spring as well as the temperature gradient in the pool.

Next morning we met the wolf guide at 5 am and started down the road.  First thing we ran into were three bears being watched by a coyote.  The bears weren’t concerned with the coyote as there was a large male bear further down the hill.

The concern with the male bear is that he would kill the cubs, so mama bear was very leary.

Next we moved on to the owls.  The following shows a parent and child.

We also ran across a female harlequin duck standing in the river.

She did go into the turbulent water in search of food.

We did find the male sunning himself.

At one of the stops Nate saw some bighorn sheep ewes and lambs. The lamb was having breakfast.

Another lamb stood nearby appearing to want some milk too.

A baby bear was spotted near the road.

With mama bear close by.

We did see wolves but at such a distance photos weren’t possible but we did get a shot of the fox running through the sagebrush.