Fountain Geyser Surprise

Just a quick hello this morning, to share a few quick photos from yesterday morning, before heading off to work for the day. This week we are on late shift - which means we don't go into work until 11:30 in the morning. On these days we try to go out into the park and see areas we haven't yet seen. Yesterday we headed out at around 7am toward the geyser basins that surround the Old Faithful Area. We had a really cool experience when we were walking the boardwalk around the Fountain Paintpots area of the park.

We were headed toward a spouting geyser that we had noticed from the road that intrigued us when we passed a large Geyser, Fountain Geyser, that looked to us to be dormant (or at least nothing was going on with it at the moment). We could see it was very large and very deep, but looked dry and empty. We glanced at it briefly then moved on toward the smaller geyser that was our destination. Suddenly we heard an eruption behind us and turned to find Fountain Geyser fully erupting, spouting water high and wide. The spray even got us a little wet! We then took out our book and read that the eruptions of this geyser could last as long as 25 minutes. We watched in awe for about 15 minutes before we had to leave to head back toward Grant Village to work. Here are some stunning photos of the eruption.