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| The visitor's center... nice place! | Bob by Old Faithful... | Then without a warning it starts spewing steam and water.... |
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| The whole thing is about 3 to 3 1/2 minutes long... then wait an hour and a half for it to happen again. | So much steam it is hard to see the water gushing out... | Yes Bob... you are finally here! |
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| but if you look at the edge, the water is jetting up! | Then it just fizzles out... back to just steam flowing out.... | There is a trail around the geyser flats allowing you to see all kinds of formations. They all empty into this creek. |
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| The whole plain is steaming... you can't walk though there... the ground is real thin and you could break though into boiling water or 500 degree steam vent! | The whole trail is elvated from the ground. | Pump Geyser. |
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| It kicks out steaming hot water every two seconds... | The minerals make all kinds of neat formations around the geysers. | Sponge Geyser |
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| The water rises and sinks in minute intervals... | Neat colors... not so much from minerals but bacterial mats living in the steaming hot water flow. | Some pools had holes that went down into the earth. |
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| The colors were so aqua it is hard to describe. | The rimstone dams around the pool from the minerals | All around are gushing or blowing geysers... was a great 3/4 mile trail!! |
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| Some pools just bubbled....or boiled I should say... | One of those underwater vents.... | You would be walking on the trail and hear a goosh and water would be boiling out where it wasn't a few minutes ago... |
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| Cool color.... | Movie in the Movie Section showing this going non-stop... | Sign... |
