Yellowstone day 6

Yellowstone day 6

Please go to day one first. Another early start, no one would have it any other way. We take a quick look back across the Yellowstone River to the side we hike up a couple of days ago, looking at the Osprey nest from the other side. We drove up to Antelope Creek for a roadside picnic breakfast. I believe that the statement was made that breakfast does not get better than this.
We drove up out of the Yellowstone Caldera to stop above and look across the Caldera. The Yellowstone is an oval Caldera over twenty miles in one direction, and over thirty miles in the other, one of the remaining evidences of a huge, huge volcanic explosion 640,000 years ago.
We then drove to the Yellowstone Falls above the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. The Upper Falls is pretty cool, the view of the Lower Falls is breath taking, I mean that symbolically and actually(see the pictures. ) The pictures do not come close to transmitting the power and beauty of that location.
We then moved on south in search of the Great Grey Owl. Following a map written on a napkin by Dan Hartman, we move into the woods. Fourteen, not exactly Rangers, teachers move with silents and stealth looking for our elusive predator. Over downed trees, under downed trees, through snow and standing water. Then, suddenly some of us saw this two feet tall package of power and grace swoop down and across our path and out of sight. Now we had to go on. Deeper into the woods we went but no luck. After a long silent searching we turned back for the vans. Karen bringing up the rear, stopped turned back for one last looked and there he was. All of us rushed back silently, maybe not gracefully, to get a view, and it was glorious. We got a look at maybe the rarest bird still in Yellowstone, up close and personal, Sweet!
Supper at the Yellowstone Lodge at Lake Yellowstone, we stayed in the cabins, easily the finest cabins of the trip. Then a walk down to the beauuuutiful Yellowstone Lake, where on a bench I had a short conversation, that ended a chapter in my life, and pointed me toward a new beginning.
You kind of had to have been there.