Yellowstone National Park , Wyoming: Part 2

August 15, 2008

We walked along a boardwalk deeper into Upper Geyser Basin after watching an 'Old Faithful' eruption. I was amazed by the density of geysers in that area; they were everywhere!

The image on the right shows a spurting geyser, maybe Anemone, but I'm not completely positive.

Beehive geyser was a cool-looking geyser; it had the appearance of a tree stump. This geyser, apparently, doesn't erupt very often, but was due for one soon. It began spraying small quantities of water when we walked by on the boardwalk, which filled us with false hopes.

Image on the right shows the smoking Beehive geyser.

Image on the right shows Anna, Shawn, and Brandon reading the info sign on Beehive Geyser with Beehive Geyser visible in front of their location, and steaming 'Old Faithful' in the distance.

Image on the right shows Beehive Geyser spraying some water in the foreground with 'Old Faithful' steaming in the background. The water belching from Beehive Geyser gave us the impression it would erupt soon, but we had so much to see in this one day, so we kept on moving.

We came to a very cool looking formation, with multiple geysers on this 'dome' with a colorful pool near the base. I do know the whole dome was called 'Lion Geyser', but each of the geysers have different names, which I can not remember at this time.

The image on the right shows the colorful pool in the foreground with Lion Geyser 'dome' in back, and another guyser can be seen in the distance.

The image on the right shows the Lion geyser dome with water spurting out of one of the many holes. We got really lucky and had the pleasure of viewing an awesome eruption up-close.

Lion geyser began spraying water in greater volume. The image on the right shows the increasing intensity of Lion geyser eruption.

Image on the right shows the eruption increasing in intensity at Lion geyser.

Image on the right shows Lion geyser eruption increasing in intensity.

Image on the right shows Lion geyser eruption.

Image on the right shows a 'zoomed-in' pic of Lion geyser eruption; it was much better to see the geyser up close.

Image on the right shows the Lion geyser eruption near maturaty or peak intensity.

Image on the right is looking at the Lion geyser eruption at peak intensity. The image is looking west, which would make north to the right of the image; try to guess what the wind direction was at the time of this image.

Image on the right shows distant geysers with spray/precip falling in the foreground from the Lion geyser eruption.

Image on the right shows Lion geyser eruption at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

Image on the right shows the Lion geyser eruption with spectators watching the show from the boardwalk on the left.

Image on the right shows a Lion geyser eruption coming to an end.

Image on the right shows Brandon and Anna consulting the map with the Lion geyser eruption winding-down in the background.

The image on the right shows 'Spasmodic' geyser erupting in front of people. This geyser was continously erupting while we were in Upper Geyser Basin. Sometimes it would spray water and steam pretty high into the air.

Image on the right shows Spasmodic geyser erupting in front of a crowd.

Image on the right shows a closer view of Spasmodic geyser.

Image on the right shows Spasmodic geyser eruption. Spasmodic geyser didn't seem to have a continuous stream of water spray, instead, small, but intense bursts of spray were ejected in a sporadic fashion, which might have caused its name.

Image on the right shows Anna's reaction to Spasmodic geyser with a smaller geyser spurting water in the background.

Image on the right shows a Spasmodic geyser eruption with Anna in the foreground.

Image on the right shows a 'funny' warning sign posted at Upper Geyser Basin; it shows a kid stepping in a geyser hole and basically being ejected and scalded by the geyser. We found this picture hilarious!

Image on the right shows another image of Spasmodic geyser erupting.

 

 

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