After a rest stop at the Fishing Bridge Lodge (and buying souveneirs) we pressed on around the southern loop road to Old Faithful Geyser. when we parked and walked to the viewing area about half of the bench seats around the geyser were taken. Donna, Kay and Ernie choose seats and I set up my camcorder at a spot where there were no benches. As the minutes passed more people gathered and I heard one say to another, "It's supposed to erupt around 4:37, give or take 10 minutes. So I waited, it was now about 4:25, and chatted with another onlooker, who came from Texas. We swapped lies about the beauty of our respective home territories. Then, at just about the predicted time a small plume rose up from the geyser. It started out going about 5, then 10, then ever higher. White spray gushed out and the mist floated away and disappeared before it reached the crowd on the far side. One bystander opined that it was 140 feet high. Not having any other way to tell different, I believed him. The high eruption lasted about 3 or 4 minutes, I have the video to time it when I get it edited. Slowly the spray subsided and stayed at about four to six feet high for a few more minutes. Since we didn't know the schedule but did know it might blow every 90 minutes, we were fortunate to be there that close to the eruption. Otherwise we would have had to spend more time and money in the gift and souveneir shop than we did.
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