Yellowstone - Day 5, West Thumb Area

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The Geyser Basin in this part of the park was right on the water which made for some completely different scenery. Check out the BLOG!


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Located on the West Thumb of Yellowstone Lake but in the south east section of the park. It’s a beautiful spot for this geyser basin.

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Checking out the hot spring

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Not sure why but this is the only pool we saw that had it’s temperature identified

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The water in them is so clear…and they look so inviting…especially on cool days like this one

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Shoreline, very curious as to the temp of the lake here but no where to touch it. Still glacially cold from the spring runoff or warm because of the hot springs in it??

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This geyser isn’t always under water. When levels drop, it’s exposed. It’s named this because fishermen used to catch and then cook their fish in the geyser’s steam….until they found out it had high levels of arsenic in it!

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Closer view of the fishing cone

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At the Black pool I was intrigued by the colours around its edge

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Boardwalk along the shoreline

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Blue funnel pool, looks inviting!

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On the drive back, we crossed the continental divide not just once…..

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but twice. This was on the stretch between West Thumb and Old Faithful at the south end of the park.

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In case you wasnt to know….

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More stupid humans although these people aren’t quite as close to the buffalo as the other stupid humans we saw.

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Bye buffalo! This was our last time being buffaloed.



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