A flock of pelicans

Our last day in Yellowstone. We packed our things and checked out. On our way to our first stop, we saw a flock of pelicans on the lake and stopped to watch them. They were done eating, but were cool.


Pelicans in the lake

We made our way over to see the artists paintpots. They were supposed to be multi-colored mud pots, but were not. Some lady said that they had dried up recently.

We went to our last hike of the trip to Osprey Falls. We knew going in we wouldn't do the entire 9 mile hike because we had a 7 hour drive ahead of us. After about 2.5 miles we came across the first people we had seen- a man and his son. They told us they had ran across a bear about a quarter mile ahead in the trees. So we were excited to see bear, but not too close.

For the entire way through the trees, we were very cautious and looked intently for bears. It was very eerie because it was windy and the wind would whistle through the dead trees and make noises and the trees would rub up against each other and make noises. None of this would have fazed us if we didn't think there was a bear. Needless to say, unfortunatley we didn't see the bear.


Hike to Osprey Falls

We got to the turnoff and ate lunch. Another couple came by and the guy was hollering the whole way "hey bear" in an attempt to keep the bear away. Funny.

We went part of the way down and turned back because of time (and how steep of a hike we were facing). On the way back we ran into the man and his son again. Very strange.

We exited the park and are now on our way to salt lake city to rest before our flight tomorrow morning.

As we made our way in Idaho, we saw a ranch that had pronghorn antelope and they were running with each other. They were pretty fast.

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