walking amongst wildlife has certain pros and cons

after a tense stand-off, the buffalo luckily decided they were more scared of us!

 

 

Hell's Gate park contains various volcanic plugs and sheer cliffs

 

white streaks on the cliff turned out to be guano

vultures, just on the edge of my zoom range

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the deep gorges are sometimes quite surreal