July 22 Around the Park in 12 hours.
Today was an all or nothing day and Glen’s choose (does that surprise anyone?). Glen made reservations with a charter boat on Yellowstone Lake to go fishing from 6-8pm. We needed to be at Bridge Bay Marina by 5:30.
We left camp early to drive down to Norris Geyser Basin. We checked out the museum and then did a hike around part of the basin looking for a Geyser to erupt. None of them did while we were there but is was still an interesting hike, and exercise.
Next we stopped at the viewing area for the upper falls on the Yellowstone River. It was a short hike to an impressive falls. And remember, we started out this trip with Niagara Falls, this was still breathtaking.
Then we found a pull out in the Hayden Valley and made lunch. Beautiful place on the river with meadows all around. Sorry we did not get a picture....I think we were thinking about lunch!
After a stop at Fishing Bridge where Glen walked the bridge and Debbie napped in Roci, we headed to our fishing appointment. You must know that I do not fish, however, Glen had to rent the whole boat, so I was a fisherman for a day, with license and all. As luck would have it, Glen’s luck that is, I caught the first, second and last fish while Glen caught one in the middle of that. These fish we caught were evasive lake trout illegally introduced to the lake over a period of 5-6 years around 1993. Now, a company had been hired (in 2012) to gill net them. They net and kill about 300,000 a season and still they have a 10 to 1 ratio over the native cutthroat.
The ride out into the middle of Yellowstone lake was fun, the lake is huge. It was also during the beginning of sunset.
Glen filleted them and we have a good stock of fish in our freezer.
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