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Yellowstone: Day 1

We engaged Yellowstone National Park from the west entrance and spent the first of our four days exploring those major features accessible from southern end of its central loop – Grand Prismatic Spring, Old Faithful and Yellowstone Lake.

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Our home for four days, courtesy of Tammah Yellowstone (sunsetted 2023)

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Opal Pool, a small tease of what was to come

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The 370 ft. diameter Grand Prismatic Spring – from ground level (aerial view seen here)

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More than 10,000 hydrothermal features are found in Yellowstone National Park, of which more than 500 are geysers

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As the sun sets and temperatures cool, the scale and frequency of hydrothermal features in the Park reveals itself completely

It's like the Park exhaling after a long day’s performance

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