Getting ready to take the tour!

Let’s get on the business end of these sandwiches before Yogi, Smokey, and his other buds show up!

Hot thermal springs that bring really hot water to the surface continually

These guys had a bad attitude working during rutting season!

Oh give me a home…. where the buffalo roam…..

And I’ll show you a dirty house!

Isn’t that how that old grade school song went?  We had some close encounters with several big males with their harems in tow.  According to the Park Rangers this is a very dangerous time to be around the buffalo because they are doing their duty to secure a future for their species by doing the “rutting thing”.  It kinda puts them in a bad mood to tolerate too much interaction with the human species.

Peggy,  (our host) says that on an average there or one or two people who get killed every year by buffalos.  I did not want to be a statistic so I beat a hasty retreat to the car.

The other wild life that blew our mind was the elk.  We stopped to eat a bowl of soup on the way out of the park and when we walked out of the café, there were about 50 – 60 elk across the street in front of our car.  We just sat and watched them for a long time.  It was awesome!

The amount of hot water loaded with H2S that comes out of the ground continually will blow your mind!  It goes on 24/7/365!