Saturday 11.7. (Yellowstone)

At the camp Cody, we finally got to the internet. We met a guy from Switzerland, who knew Czech and Slovak and was familiar with the realia, which was pretty fun. We slept in the open (except of Zuzka who usually preffers the car). We woke up around 6 am and set off west, in an hour we got to the Yellowstone National Park. The park is huge, it´s center is created by the Yellowstone Lake, from which effluents the river of the same name. The lake lies in the middle of caldera (whole Yellowstone os one big volcano), so that we already started to see the hot springs, fonts and other phenomena; whereas during the whole trip the peculiar sulphuric bad smell went along with us. Through the mid of the park a well-known 8-shaped road turns round, and majority of the most famous places is accesible there. In Saturday, we drived through it´s northern part; we accomodated at the campsite and subsequently checked the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone (it is not that big as the one in Arizona but it is more colorful with several cascades and waterfalls), Mammoth Hot Springs (tectonic terraces) and plenty of other stuf. We saw many bizons, elks and from the distance the grizzly bear and moose, as well. I took a bath in the river near the inflow of one hot spring, the water had 40 C degrees. When returned to the camp then and made a fire to get rid of the mosquitos.