<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> A few notes from the geyser basin, October 31 and November 1, 2007.   Little Squirt was seen splashing on the afternoon of the 31st, but not erupting.   Plume seemed to have a pattern of shortening intervals througout the day on the 31st, starting at over 70 minutes and returning to the normal 50-55 minutes by dusk.  Intervals appeard to be normal again on the 1st.   Beehive erupted at 1330 on the 1st.  I didn't catch when the Indicator started but it did have one.   The grass that had been matted down near Scissors was starting to stand up again, so I conjectured that whatever large event occurred at the beginning of its new activity has not repeated itself.   Grand erupted on intervals of 6 to 10 1/4 hours while I was in the park but I did not see it after the 28th due to bad timing and even worse luck, so I don't have much else to say about it.   Fan & Mortar continued to have event cycles, but had not erupted as of 1745 on the 1st.  I saw plenty of Main Vent splashing and several pauses in prior event cycles, but didn't see (or infer) a full eruption of Bottom Vent until the afternoon of the 1st.   Thanks to Steve Eide for reporting times; it's hard to get many closed intervals when there are only 2 gazers in the basin.   My final wildlife sighting of the year was a group of 8 swans flying overhead while I waited for Grand at dusk on the 31st.  They were headed from the west towards Yellowstone Lake.   That's all til next year.   --Tara Cross <A href="mailto:fanandmortar@hotmail.com">fanandmortar@hotmail.com</A> <hr />Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. <a href='http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline' target='_new'>Stop by today!</a></body> </html>