Beehive Geyser

Right next to Grand Geyser are two small geysers, Spasmodic and Sawmill Geyser, which displayed a lot of minor activity. You can easily check them out while waiting for Grand to erupt (Grand eruptions can last 20 minutes, so you won't miss it.) These two photos are Sawmill Geyser.

This is photo is of Spasmodic Geyser

Walking back along the boardwalk toward Old Faithful you will see Heart Spring

The interval between eruptions of Beehive Geyser is irregular, so the park service makes no attempt to guess when it will go off. Beehive has a unique indicator - there is a small vent next to the Beehive cone that will send a thin jet of boiling water into the air when Beehive is about to blow. When we were walking along the board walk, there was no activity, so we did not wait. However, on a later day, after we had waited and watched Daisy Geyser erupt, we were walking back to the Old Faithful parking lot when we notice a woman running the other away. She said something about Beehive - and we looked over across the Firehole River, and sure enough - the Beehive indicator jet was shooting up. Naturally, we ran right after her. In the first picture, when Beehive is first starting, you can still see the indicator jet to the right of the Beehive plume.

I am standing across the river watching the Beehive eruption. The people on the boardwalk who were down wind were driven back by the falling water and steam. It turned out to be fortunate for us that Daisy eruption was late, otherwise we would have missed seeing Beehive.

Past Beehive is Anemone Geyser. It looked like a dormant pool when we were there

The guide book says that a young buffalo fell into Blue Star Spring and got boiled alive, you are supposed to be able to see it's bones at the bottom of the pool. I did not see those bones.