Last week I was on vacation. We spend a week each summer at one of the most beautiful lakes in NH. While sitting out on the dock watching the grandchildren fish we had what I call a National Geographic Moment. There are two beautiful loons that fish in the area every morning. My son and grandson were fishing off the dock when all of a sudden my son yelled "bring in the lines." Right in front of us along side the dock were the loons, one was on top of the water and the other swam right underneath the water alongside the dock. I have observed loons on the lake but never have I seen them swim under the water right in front of my eyes. We were all speechless. It was one of those moments when nature takes your breath away. What a gift! Do you have a special National Geographic Moment to share?
We were in Yellowstone two weeks ago, we spied three wolves eating off a bison carcass, just then a big grizzly bear came out of the forest and bee lined for the wolves, when he got within about a 100 yards he started running full speed, the bear and wolves played chicken for a few minutes and the bear won out, the wolves backed off about 10 yards and waited for the bear to get his fill. One of just a few NatGeo moments we had on that trip.
From our Yellowstone trip: Mule deer and fawn: Bald eagle in flight: Very large Black Bear: Bull Elk: Pronghorn: Elk and her fawn: No pictures of Grizzlies (we saw 6) or wolves (we saw 3) due to being too far away for our little camera.
Nice, Chrisk! Did you hear Yellowstone's Caldera has just been measured as twice that than previously thought? If not, you may enjoy this article.
Thanks Nathan, nice article, what I was wondering was why the Mammoth area had the thermal features but was outside the caldera. But I'm no geologist.
Underground fault lines running beyond the caldera boundary act much like additional exhaust pipes, channelling water heated by the energy attributed to the same magmatic system responsible for the remaining geothermal areas within the caldera.