Was bicycling past the Inn when I noticed there was a lot of steam around Beehive. At first I thought I'd missed the call for the Indicator, but then Beehive started along with an announcement of "no Indicator". So Beehive must've had some huge splashes. Watched the eruption for a bit, then went on to tie up my bike at Castle. Walked out toward Crested, and Beehive was still in eruption, almost six minutes later.
Over at Grand it seemed like I walked up on a Turban Delay Interval, and the following Turban eruption without any Grand overflow seemed to confirm this. The Delay took place well before I'd expected Grand, so I hoped that it meant we'd have only a few Turban eruptions to wait out before getting a relatively short Grand interval.
2023-Aug-28:15:11:28 T1Q 15:10:49 Turban -0m18s 15:10:53 Vent Ovfl -0m14s 15:11:08 Grand B1 --- d=10m41s 15:13:30 Vent 2m22s 15:21:49 P1 10m41s 15:22:45 V&T Quit 11m37s ΣD=10m41s * * * * * 11:58:08 d=5m18s 12:16:05 Int: 17m57s d=4m51s 12:35:02 Int: 18m57s d=4m29s 12:54:53 Int: 19m51s d=3m11s 13:10:34 Int: 15m41s d=3m54s 13:29:26 Int: 18m52s d=3m58s 13:47:17 Int: 17m50s d=3m38s 14:02:49 Int: 15m32s d=3m40s 14:21:33 Int: 18m44s d=3m43s 14:39:31 Int: 17m57s d=3m25s 14:55:40 Int: 16m08s d=3m31s Turban: 15m09s
As it turned out, it took Grand 11 Turban eruptions before we got the One Burst Eruption.
The after sunset wait was much better, as there seemed to be no Turban Delay Interval this time, and the One Burst Grand Eruption started near the 6-1/2 hour mark. The conditions were ideal for a nearly full moon eruption, with the usual down slope wind pushing the steam toward the north. But no moonbows this night. And despite the early prediction window, only geyser gazers were present.
2023-Aug-28:21:41:15 T1C 21:41:08 Turban -0m06s 21:41:15 Grand B1 --- d=10m26s 21:51:41 P1 10m26s Vent & Turban continue ΣD=10m26s * * * * * 21:01:02 d=4m51s 21:20:26 Int: 19m24s d=4m27s Turban: 20m42s