Yellowstone where do we begin.... It is the most incredible place and we would recommend everyone visit it at least once in their lifetime. We left West Yellowtsone on the 20 September and spent four days in the actual park. We entered from the west heading for the Norris Geyser Basin and it wasn't long into the journey that we had our first Bison encounter. A lone male minding its own business next to the river, we spent a lot of time taking photos of him, but little did we know we would spend the next four days surrounded by large herds including two grazing at our campsite!!!!!!

The Western side of the park has a lot of thermal activity so much of the first day was spent at various points looking at brightly coloured bubbling pools of water and steaming terraces. We finished our day at Mammoth in the North of the park where the Elk graze in the town centre.

Day two in the park was spent travelling from Mammoth through to the Lamar valley where the majority of the parks wildlife can be found if you have a big enough lens...... We were really lucky and managed to see more Bison, Elk, and our first Coyote but the bears still eluded us.Although, we did hear a rumour that there might be a grizzly feeding down by the river before dawn.

That night we stayed in the very basic Slough Creek campground no showers, drop toilets and right in the heart of grizzly country. It was a very beautiful location to stay the night sky was amazing but cooking was a bit rushed due to the high number of bear warning signs in the campgound.

The next morning we got up in the dark freezing cold to drive to the site of our tip off, there was already a crowd gathered when we turned up, most of them carrying photographic equipment Ben could only dream of!!! We stood in the freezing cold for about half an hour looking across the valley, Ben through his camera lens and me with the free national trust binoculars... Suddenly everyone got very excited pointing in the direction of some flying birds, Ben and I still couldn't see anything, until this brown head poped up from the grass and looked back at us all.. Finally our grizzly sighting!

We then headed South to the Hayden Valley past Mt Washburn to Fishing Bridge where we camped over night in the hope of seeing more grizzly action. The next morning we were up early for more wildlife spotting but a fog had decended across the valley, so our hopes were dashed until a Bald Eagle started fishing in the river across from us!

On our final day in Yellowstone we drove around Yellowstone Lake which was even bigger than Tahoe (neither of us thought that was possible), heading to 'Old Faithful' for more geyser action. After watching the eruption we went to the Old Faithful Inn and treated oursleves to lunch.

On our way out of the park we visited the West Thumb Geyser Basin, where Ben spotted a small herd of Elk and went in for a closer shot the Bull took exception to this and chased Ben back to the car!

We loved Yellowstone and have taken tons of photos and will put some online but even they don't do justice to the place. One day we will return but this time with better binoculars and a very large camera lens...