[Geysers] Great Fountain 8/14; Kaleidoscope

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We were hoping to catch Fountain and/or Great Fountain on Sunday  
before we headed home and I know at least Maureen was out there  
waiting for GF to overflow. Did get the good-thing-we-didn't-wait time  
for Fountain from Marty Beth but wondered if anyone had info on GF's  
activity that day, as the visitor's center was again mum and en route  
to Fountain it looked like it was almost at the midpoint between  
eruptions.

For the sake of interest, the feature I inquired about in the  
Kaleidoscope group earlier in the year did start acting like  
Kaleidoscope again. Pool was full, very slightly siliceous blue  
(really bluer than most of Deep Blue, which has flooded over the edge  
of its shallow side) but not the murkier clay color I saw in July. The  
pool itself did not have the abrupt edge on the back left that I noted  
earlier. It did have a nice little cone feature on the near right  
shoulder, active about every 8 minutes for about 2 minutes (definitely  
a cone shape; guess on the top water droplets of the best bursts was  
about 20 feet). The thing I haven't seen before is that when we got  
what definitely seemed to be Kaleidoscope (a whopping series of 2) it  
appeared to be erupting from the near *left* corner of the pool, and  
the eruptions did not start until the pool itself began to empty.  
Again, this is the first summer I've had binoculars with me and seen  
this much detail. We were also getting what looked like a series of  
Honeycomb (water bubbling from the center of the broad basin rather  
than where I thought Honey's Vent was). We only got to see 3, but each  
was larger and longer than the last. Wondered if this also represented  
a change.

And you can all blame us for cursing F&M to middle of the night eruptions...
Karen Webb

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