Yellowstone

(1) Big bull buffalo.  It is the beginning of the rut season and we suspect that the lone bulls might be grumpy younger members of the herd that are forced out by the ruling bulls.  No wonder they are grumpy.  Lamar Valley is the Yellowstone area that has the largest herds of buffalo and pronghorns, etc.  There is a wide flat plain along the Lamar River.  Sandhill cranes, buffalo, pronghorns, coyote, eagle. 

(2) Canyon Falls.  Spectacular scenery.  There is an osprey nest on one of the rocky pinnacles (not in photo) with two youngish osprey altho' full sized.  They were calling, whining, flapping their wings begging for food.  Parent brought fish. 

(3) Halfway from Poles to Equator.  When we were in Fairbanks and also Whitehorse, we were less than 200 miles from Arctic Circle.  I was wishing to go, but all reports are that the road is not in good repair. With a sturdier vehicle, I would have been there.