Day 7 - Yellowstone Lake

We had another awesome day at Yellowstone. Amazingly we could actually walk this morning in spite of our equine adventure of yesterday. Today's adventure took us to Yellowstone Lake. It is huge and glorious. It was quite windy so lots of white caps which I think adds a lot of texture to the scenery. So a large lake with whitecaps and snow capped mountains in the backdrop. Wow! Today's hike was out to see a natural bridge. The trail head was at the Yellowstone Lake and was all through the woods - which was a big change from some of the other hikes on this trip. The route we took back from the bridge did not end up exactly where we expected although I would not say we were lost since we could at least see where we meant to be. A short walk delivered us back to the car. After that we rewarded ourselves with ice cream and shopping ... a winning combination. From there we decided that we needed some education and went to the Yellowstone Education center. I had not realized that the reason there are all the geysers were because Yellowstone sits on top of an active volcano. Someday, old Faithful could stop spouting steam and actually spout lava - yikes! We headed back north from there but had to stop for a bison viewing as a herd had finally decided to cooperate and do their grazing near the road. After we were back on the road we were commenting on how we had only seen a few elk at a time.... we came around a corner and there was a herd of elk! yea. Oh yes our other wildlife sighting was a yellow bellied marmot. That made today a pretty productive one for wildlife sightings. Only 1 day left to find the elusive moose, bear or wolf. Oh well the scenery alone would be worth the trip. The wildlife is like the sprinkles on the ice cream.