The weather suddenly turned cold, as a Ranger at Canyon had predicted. To go from temperatures in the mid 90's to the low 60's was a bit of a shock. At night we went to below freezing and woke up to snow on the mountains in the mornings.
We spent Sunday visiting all the thermal activities on the way down to Old Faithful; these are so fascinating and plentiful. We saw mud pools, boiling hot pools, geysers and a cave called 'Dragon Cave' which speyed out steam and growled while it did so!
However, the hightlight of the day was seeing our first grizzly bear in Yellowstone - middle of the afternoon, it decided to walk out in front of the car to cross to the river!
Old Faithful is the only predicable geyser in the area, erupting every 90 minutes to heights of 40 feet; however, there are other unpredictable geysers in the area which are far more spectacular.
The restaurant has the most gorgeous food and we took full advantage of it.
This completed our Yellowstone leg; from here we moved on to Grand Teton.
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