Sunrise was beautiful as we still had clouds in the area to make some colors. The clouds moved in yesterday evening and even rained a bit on us while Tony was cleaning the bathroom in Usain and I was cooking supper at the picnic table. I grabbed an umbrella to protect my external induction burner in use. He covered the litter box and grabbed a towel to dry stuff. No rain this morning, but temperatures are in the mid-40s. It will warm up with some sunshine.

LeHardy’s Rapids has a nice boardwalk along the Yellowstone River. This is where people watch the Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout leaping upstream in the spring. And I’m sure the local bears hang out here then, too.

The coolest thermal feature in the Mud Volcano region was definitely Dragon’s Mouth Spring with its noises as water is slammed around in the rock before coming out as waves and steam in the opening. It just looks and sounds like a dragon approaching!

Mud Volcano blew itself apart in 1870; for the following two years it spewed mud into the tree tops. It has been a calmer, bubbling mud pool ever since. Black Dragon’s Caldron blew itself into existence in 1948, uprooting trees and spewing black mud all over. It is relatively calm for now.

Churning Caldron is very noisy and sends hot mud down the hillside.

Mud Geyser is really large and has some cool craters along the edges.

Sulphur Caldron is just up the road to the north of the Mud Volcano, but doesn’t have any walking trails around it. The “rotten egg gas” smell is strong in the air. This caldron is super acidic with high levels of sulfuric acid.