Papa Bear and his Three Cubs- The Alaskan Adventures of a solo dad and his girls.: Day 63- Yellowstone

August 13

Today was the lower loop and all the stinky, bubbly hydrothermal and geysers we could handle.

We woke up to a pretty strong rain. I was hoping it wouldn't have been over the park but looking at the radar it was moving in a north east direction. I figured since we got to the park at 2 the first time we did the lower loop and not going up a portion of the North loop I figured we would have plenty of time to see all we wanted even if we left a bit late.

We got to the park about 11. It was an on and off sprinkling.

We stopped at all the same spots from the first day plus the ones we skipped. Even though we saw the same features they were totally different with the change in weather. With the rain and cooler weather it was a lot more steam. Also not sure if it was the weather or the timing but everything was a lot more active today. Geysers that had low or no activity were very active today. The only downside was all the extra steam sometimes blocked the feature.

The big draw of the day of course was Old Faithful. Using the app and the latest geyser info before I lost cell connection I figured we would be close to an eruption so we left the previous feature early so we wouldn't have to sit around waiting fro the next eruption.

While we drove up I could see that the eruption has started. I told the girls to get out and check it out while I parked. Since we were forced to sit for an hour and a half we checked out the visitors center. The girls wanted to watch the movies again. By the time the video's were done we had enough time to grab some ice cream and find a good spot to watch Old Faithfull.

After the eruption we checked out the gift shop. Each girl got a little something.

Summer was saying she was not feeling the best again. It was now about 6 pm and we could either continue the loop and take another 2 plus hours or we could go back and take about an hour and a half.

The rest of the loop was mainly scenic so I decided to continue on. We did stop a few times but mainly just drove. We did come across some male elk with full antlers. I of course had to stop for some pictures.