Daily Nature Fix: Grand Prismatic Hot Spring. (Original Photos)

Hi folks. The Daily Nature Fix hasn't been so daily lately. Sorry about missing the past two days... I just wound up working way too late into the night in my wood shop. You know, idle hands are the devil's playground, or some such bullshit. Anyway, tonight's Daily Nature Fix is going to be a couple more photos of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park.

Grand Prismatic is in the top 5 of the most amazing things I've seen in my life. While I have shared a few photos of it on here in the past, I realized it really hasn't been that many. That is, compared to how many I've taken on our trips there.

The hot spring is both the largest AND the most colorful I've ever seen. It's huge. Just under 400 feet across and pushes almost 150 feet deep. It's 160°F water and run off makes for some prefect conditions that allow the colorful orange microbial mats to thrive.

As we stood there in awe, looking over Grand Prismatic, I couldn't help but to also see these geothermal features that are churning just below the surface of the Yellowstone super volcano, which will one day change life as we know it. If it blew at that very moment though, we would have had one hell of a view on our exit.

Thanks for reading! I post a nature-themed Daily Nature Fix blog every day. Please upvote if you enjoyed it and resteem if you found it especially interesting! Be sure to follow me @customnature so you'll never miss out on your nature fix! See you tomorrow. - Adam

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