<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>A couple of interesting events today, one no doubt a follow-up to last evening's Giant. First the "ordinary."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Somebody saw Fountain i.e. at 0758, after I'd passed by.</DIV>Grand at 0333e, then 1140 (T1C), I=8h07m</DIV> <DIV>Beehive at 0948, 24h10m from yesterday's eruption. Today's Indicator was 12 minutes.</DIV> <DIV>Lion was 0937 initial and 1056 #2 and last.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Interesting item #1. There has been an energy shift at Biscuit Basin (that I don't recall hearing of before). Up at the Silver Globes and Avoca Spring, the energy has shifted to Avoca. It -- the main vent in the long rift -- is erupting constantly with jets several feet high. It obviously at times does more than I saw today, as there are washed areas around the crater. Meanwhile, Silver Globe (the deep hole at the Zygomatic Arch) is at a very low water level and totally quiet. The little geyser I call BBG-3 is "dead" and badly decayed. Across the walk, there was minimal action in Silver Globe Geyser (the blue pool), very weak spray from"Cave," which has not reached beyond its immediate basin in quite a long time. I did see a very nice eruption of Silver Globe Slit, but as I recall, it tends to be more active when the other Silver Globes are not.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Interesting item #2. Upon my arrival today I immediately headed down to Giant-Grotto to check on recovery from yesterday's 2220 eruption of Giant. I found the Giant Complex to be very dead. At Grotto, Grotto Fountain was showing a bit of water but none was visible in Indicator Spring. I departed, went to Geyser Hill for a while, and etc. etc. and then returned to Giant with Matt Johnson (who replaced the sign logs at 0924). Then I went on to Grotto.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Just in time. Grotto Fountain started at 0940. As it started, Indicator was _overflowing_ a little with easily visible convection. Yes. Grotto Fountain had a very rapid start. Meanwhile, Grotto was strangly silent. About 6 minutes after Grotto Fountain started, Rocket began having voluminous bursts from a low water level.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At about this time, Grotto Fountain got huge; I mean, wow. South Grotto Fountain was also huge, for it, as viewed from the Grotto boardwalk jetting over and beyond the dead log to its right. And Grotto was silent. Rocket was bursting. And Grotto Fountain continued.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At 1006 -- 26 minutes into Grotto Fountain -- Rocket took off with a BIG major. Grotto was silent. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>PLEASE NOTE: Rocket major starting the action, not Grotto.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rocket's duration was fully 6 1/2 minutes, and it was only near its end that Grotto finally decided to do something. At about the same time, Grotto Fountain went into a semi-steam phase. The only time I've ever previously witnessed that was a few days after the 1988 Giant, when Grotto Fountain has a series of what I called "steam breaks" during a 53-minute eruption.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Then Grotto Fountain quit abruptly at 1009, duration, 29+ minutes. Rocket quit about 3 minutes later. And Grotto _gradually_ (very slowly) decided to sort of erupt. I wrote down 1012 as a start time for Grotto, but that's very loose. It quit at or beforfe 1130, after a Grotto duration of not more than 1h20m.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>How cool. As I left a few minutes later, I could easily see water in GIP from the boardwalk and then also saw a bit of jetting in Catfish and the back vent of Mastiff. (But even as of about 1200, after Grand, nothing was seen in Bijou.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cool.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>