Geyers and Old Faithful

The day was cloudy and threatening rain, but we did see geyser activity in the distance.

The steam was quite impressive and had a BAD odor of sulphur.

Carol likes the colors of the pools.  She waited in the car while I did some walking to get several shots.

I just like the tree leaning away from the curve in the walkway.

A bubbling "mini" old faithful??

The colors of the depositions in this area were quite nice.

I did not like the many people that were in my way during the day!!

The hot water from this "geyser" was running into the cold river flowing to the bottom left.

We could see the Mammoth Springs from the car, but no parking spaces were available until we got to the backside, so this is an "unusual" shot of the feature.  It had bubbled up and formed this "loaf" on the way out of the turnoff.

Carol is waiting for Old Faithful.  The lodge is in the background and the flags show a still SW wind.

We were joined (or we joined??) about a thousand other spectators at 6pm to see the well documented geyser do its thing about 6:05pm

We were teased for 10-15 minutes with small spits and gurgles.

Then Old Faithful was faithfull.  The eruption lasted two to three minutes with several ups and downs. 

As the old guy was drifting back into the ground, a rainbow appeared in the mist.

We went to the visitor center and when we came out it was raining lightly, so Carol took this shot, but the rain is not evident.

In case you doubted it was raining, we did get a nice rainbow.  It didn't bring us much luck, however, as the next day started off nice and then the rains came and we hit road work with lots of interuptions and mud on the east side of the north loop.  Day two was not much fun.