Category: Animals

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 11: Part 2

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 This is for everyone that loves the selfies and nonprofessional looking photos from my phone 🙂 As John said in the Day 11 original, post we went through Hayden Valley first. This is a large grazing area for animals. Though no baby buffaloes. I thought you would like a…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 11

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 (Note: We think we fixed the vertical movie issue, but they are a bit larger. It might be a bit slow loading, but let us know if the vertical movies play sideways.) (Note: If you click the image, you will be able to zoom in on the photographs. Some…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 10: Part 2

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Day 10: Part 1 – One out of Six Ain’t Bad?, will be posted tomorrow. (Note: The bird was never very close to shore, so all of these images are clickable links. If you click on the image, you can zoom in for as much detail as there is.…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 8

    Yellowstone National Park, May 2025 Today we tried to get out a little earlier, but we were unsuccessful. This was mostly because I couldn’t find my keys, and it took a while to locate them. Once we did get out, our first stop was to hike Storm Point. My main purpose was to see the…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 8: Part 2

    West Thumb Geyser Basin, WY, May 2025 Kate wanted to take a break after the Storm Point hike to wait for most people to leave the park. After coming back, we received a unannounced visitor … (dun dun DUN!) Kate answered the door, and it was park maintenance. It turns out that the water spigot…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 4: Part 2

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 As promised, (a day late and a dollar short,) here are some of the videos of the river otter and grizzly bear from Thursday. The Sony Handycam that we have produces low resolution videos (720×480), so there is not a lot of detail. On the positive side, the videos…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 6

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Today’s plan was simple. John had to do a few quick things in the morning, go on a hike longer than a mile, and visit the Fishing Bridge Visitor Center. We opted for the Howard Eaton trail that was right beside Fishing Bridge, less than a mile from our…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 5

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 Today was a beautiful day to wake up in Yellowstone. The temperature was 28 degrees or less last night, but it increased to 32 degrees by 8 am. Yeah!! We did the typical morning breakfast – pancakes, eggs and bacon (just had to make your mouth water :-). Then,…

  • Yellowstone National Park Day 4

    Yellowstone National Park, WY, May 2025 (Note: The animal pictures are set up as links to the pictures because you need to zoom in to see the details. This requires the back button to return to the page. The other pictures are embedded. Just click on them to return to the page.) This morning started…

  • That is not a Dessert Beetle

    Guernsey State Park, WY, May 2025 Get that beetle out of your mouth this instant. We ran across this walking back from looking at the train bridge. It was at least one inch long, possibly longer, with a slight iridescence on the back. From google searching, our best guess is that this is a pinacate…