[Geysers] Geyser report October 3

[TSBryan at aol.com]

Finally, a good soaking rain overnight last night. But wonderfully, no rain  
today. Temperature up to 53 in West.
 
Starting down-basin again... We don't know for sure what Grotto did  
overnight, except that it probably had some sort of short, mini-marathon that  ended 
in the middle of the night. Early today, Bijou was almost but not quite  dead. 
What was probably the recovery hot period was at 0822 (d = 6m 15s). That  was 
followed by another hot period at 0926ie (weak), then one at 1041 ( d ~  5 1/2 
min), a bathtub at 1206, and finally (radioed by Bill W) a hot period at  
1310ie (d ~ 2 min).
 
The first Grotto Fountain after the overnight-whatever happened at 1038.  The 
duration was about 20 minutes and it was NOT accompanied by Grotto.  Again.
 
Yesterday Mike and I saw Artemisia's steam cloud at 1213ie. Today we saw it  
at 1216ie.
 
Daisy was at 0819 and 1118.
 
This morning's only Oblong was at 1102.
 
Grand was 0447E and had not gone again as of 1315.
 
Castle was 0604E and clearly was a minor (though it was reported initially  
as a major), as there was a full major starting at 1033.
 
Beehive was not seen on Sunday and it was not seen on Monday, so it was not  
expected when it was caught at 1213ie.
 
Plume produced intervals of 126 minutes for 2 intervals, 61 min, and  144 min 
again for 2 intervals.
 
Black Diamond has not erupted in days -- its water is the clearest I've  seen 
since the first activity in July.
 
And this was fun -- upon leaving Old Faithful, I swung by Great Fountain.  It 
was boiling vigorously. One car came by, asked about it and when I said it  
would erupt within a few minutes, they drove away. So it was that (really!) at  
1338 I was the only person there for the meter boil (P = 6). Yes, traffic has 
 died down, but not that much. Some other people arrived about 5 minutes into 
the  true eruption, after Great Fountain had had some bursts to maybe 150 
feet.
 
For me, just three more days in 2006.
 
Scott Bryan
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