Exit78 Photo of the Day #84
Firehole Spring, Firehole Lake Drive, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, September 12, 2007 (Pentax K10D)
A very colorful pool, Yellowstone’s Firehole Spring is actually a small, perpetual spouter geyser. It is almost always churning and spouting due to superheated boiling in the plumbing of the geyser with large large steam and gas bubbles rising from the depths. It is located in the Lower Geyser Basin.
Firehole Spring is constantly bubbling. Early explorers thought the large bubbles looked like flashes of light – hence the origin of the spring’s name. The spring passed the name on to Firehole River and Firehole Lake and eventually to Fire Hole Lake Drive.
Series notes:
- The photos in this series are (usually) randomly selected from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Exit78 Photo of the Day.
- Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
