Geek Rock

At 4:30 we got up nice and early to see some of the early risin’ animals. Jessica and I didn’t bother with anything we unzipped the bottom of our sleeping bags and waddled to the car like psychopathic worms. We were nearly falling asleep Jessica said she saw some huge buck. It was too dark to confirm so we continued. I then thought I saw this bear! So I said so we reversed and outer and I were looking out. I was starting to doubt myself. It had moved though! We finally moved on. Okay so I felt really stupid when we past later in the light and there was a very interestingly shaped stump. I felt like a really big tree stump myself. We decided that it would be really clever to go down where the most wolf spottings. We got there and there was a big sign telling us that the road was closed because of road works in 8miles. We did travel the 8 miles because there still was a chance that we could see something we stopped when there was a Bison Jam. It was one Bison after another and they weren’t snappy about it either. We continued down and there wasn’t much except a stupid idiot in a red car that went screeching in front of us and then had to make a huge stop when the Bison decided they were going to cross the road again. We turned around and carried on we were now trying to find a nice swamp to find a swamp-donkey (moose). We went to the Floating Island Lake which is where we found a moose! We took loads of photos (shocker!) none of them turned out particularly well. If there was one thing I found out on this trip to Yellowstone it was that taking pictures of animals are very difficult (except for Bison they’re everywhere slow or sleeping) we continued and Wouter and I saw a little mouse thing which was so cute! Mom and Jessica who are on the other side of us didn’t and we didn’t get photos either but it was okay what we saw next made-up for it. After seeing a petrified tree (Oh wonder what it was that scared it? BaDump Bump) we went down the 8 mile road again and mom thought she might have seen a bear we assured her it was a Bison but mom wanted to check. I was but just then we saw a Marmoset. It is one of the sweetest things EVER! We called them Pikitue (from pokomon). Suddenly there were 2 one mommy (the first one we saw) and a little baby then another 2 babies appeared. Mom got her camera and started filming. As if they sensed her camera they stayed absolutely still and didn’t do anything. When mom stopped filming and just took photos it was all energy so mom tried again with the filming and again nothing. They were quite stubborn that way. We watched the little ones go under ground and up again and then we had to leave again. It was around 6:30 by that stage. On our way back up the 8mile road we were bombarded with Prong Horn Deer. They were mostly young and playing around and in the road. We got some good shots there. I was almost asleep so I told mom to wake me if we see anything interesting. I was barely asleep when mom showed us the coyote on the side of the road right by our car. This is what happened:

“Tamsyn look outside your window”-M

“Hmmm”-Grumpy Tamsyn

“Look!”-M

“Oh. Cool. *Snort and back to sleep*-T

I slept until 8:30 which is when we stopped at an unknown location that I now know which had the showers. Ah the showers. Very expensive but worth it. My really grubby body needed the clean and it was only the second day in Yellowstone. Now what I have just realized I’ve failed to mention. The ’snow’. There was unbelievable amounts. Every now and again Jessica and I stopped my the side of the road and had snow ball fights which I can safely say I won. Mom stayed firmly on land. Which was probably better for her health. There was even ice at our campsite which made for very entertaining new home movies. We carried on driving and looking for new and exciting animals. We went to Old Faithful and watched the water fountain like thing spout in all it’s glory. We carried on and saw huge amounts of people again. We guessed that there were bears. We stopped and saw too teenage bears. One was most definitely a black bear and the other one playing with it was a shocking grizzly together was odd but you couldn’t deny the facts which Jessica so nicely pointed out for us. Hey were down a ravine which made photo taking extremely difficult. We continued and went to see some gas filled swamp thing that was called Hot Springs which sounds a lot more inviting than it smelt. We were traveling back to the camp site when loads of cars. It had to be another bear and looky looky it was! It was another Black Bear which was very nicely posing for us. We continued and there was another Black Bear this was a very AWESOME! That was 3 black bears and 2 grizzlies in 2 days so exciting we were talking about how we needing to see grizzly because that would even things up. We went back to camp and decided because our campsite and shops lost power we should cook ourselves. They closed our shop so we decided that we needed to find some sausage and these smoor pack things. We did find the smoors but nothing but stupid bacon. On our way back there was a line of cars. We had 2 hunches the first was that there was a bear the second was that there was a Bison Jam. There was a teenage girl walking up our way and telling everyone so we asked. She told us there was a Grizzly. Wouter had to stay with the car but the rest of us jumped out. I was too short to see anything but I was assuming that the bear was close because Jessica kept saying in her loudest stage whisper that these tourist were way too close and that the bear would out run all of them and someone would get hurt. Mom got beautiful photos of this grizzly thank fully! W decided that we should go before it gets annoyed with the tourist. As we got to the car we told Wouter who’s response to Jessica’s anger was that You Didn’t Have To Outrun The Bear You Had To Outrun The Other Tourists. Which is quite valid. We were in the car waiting for a gap when we saw the most idiotic tourist decided to go up the hill that the bear was up to get better photos. The idiot. Although I will let you know that we never saw him return but we didn’t hear any human-gut wrenching screams either. We got a fire going and started marshing our marshmallows’ when the thunder started. Great we rushed our smoors and quickly got everything in order right when the rain began. I remember hearing one of the very load American neighbors of ours said loudly “It’s not thunder it’s a rain storm” Um. Never mind we had left over sandwich things that we had for dinner. When the trickles started coming we ran inside our tents and said goodnight to everyone from there. It was like we had never seen rain before. That night it was bloody cold! I was dieing and Jessica didn’t provide any sort of warmth manly because the bit of her I was trying to suck the warmth out of was her feet. We needed to get up at 6 tomorrow.