Today, it was still raining and cold. We decided to go back to the north rim of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone to see more of the waterfalls (upper and lower), then to spend the rest of the day looking for wildlife. They aren't as visible as I had always believed. A person can see wildlife in Yellowstone, but it's nearly always serendipitous. Most of the park is not accessible by highway, and there could be thousands of individual animals in those areas, but if you are not going to hike into the back country, you have to depend on the animals coming near the highways in order to see them. And, occasionally,
they'll do just that. We found bison herds in the northeastern part of the park, within sight of the highway. In addition to the herds of bison, we saw a magnificent elk, nesting ospreys in the Canyon, a silver fox, and pronghorns. The bison are almost everywhere, individually, and on our visit, they were the most common animal we saw. We wanted to find moose, but never did find any.
I still don't know how I'm going to get the trailer put back on my pickup tomorrow.
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