Land Of The Holy Water

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If you get water from a watering hole, does that make it holy water?

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If that's the case then Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is the Land of the Holy Water.

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Seems like any way you turn there's another bubbling, boiling, steaming pool of holy water.

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Hell, sometimes it even jumps clean out of the ground.

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For some reason it smells strongly of sulfur. Ah, Hell...

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Dead and dying vegetation, seems more befitting a Hieronymus Bosch painting than a place full of holy water.

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There's plenty of holy water architecture...

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...and even a giant sculpture.

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Just don't piss off the buffalo!

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This has been a #wednesdaywalk through Yellowstone, mostly Norris Geyser Basin.

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Love all these mono Images, reminding me again how I would love to visit Yellowstone sometime, back where I am from in NZ we have a lot of geothermal areas, so thats lead to my having wanted to visit Yellowstone for years

Thanks for joining Wednesday Walk :), I truly enjoy exploring the world virtually each Wednesday seeing walks from all around the globe and feeling I am there and experiencing it all myself, such as I did in your post just now :)

Thank ya! Yellowstone is amazing, although mono probably isn't doing proper justice to all the color there is to see there. Never seen anything quite like it, by far the most alien and potentially hostile landscape I've ever visited. I didn't realize there were geothermal areas in NZ but I guess y'all are on the Ring of Fire.

Thanks for dropping by!

Perhaps Mono doesnt do justice to the rich colors there as you say but it does add to the feel of an alien and hostile landscape

Taupo and Rotorua in New Zealand are the most well known Geothermal areas in NZ with walks in geothermal active areas, hot pools etc, Rotorua even more so when you drive into the city you notice the rotten egg Sulfur smell but then adjust to it while visiting there