FIZZY WATER

I told you here wasn't much to do here in Green River.  I don't really mind because it means that Jim and Kathe sit around on lounge chairs in the shade and I get to be outside watching the birds and the bunnies. Not a bad way to spend a day, but those guys are always looking for a new adventure.

Trip Adviser lists lots of things you are supposed to be able to do in Green River, only most of them are 50 -75 miles away, like all the way back to in Moab.  On the bottom of the page was an attraction called the Crystal Geyser, a rare cold water geyser located about 12 miles away from our RV Park. They traveled the distance out of town on this gravel and dirt road until they came upon a rusty pipe sticking out of the rocks which was the Crystal Geyser. It seems because the sight was so remote, people kept throwing rocks into the geyser so the State built a pipe around it to preserve it.

The eruptions are unpredictable, but are supposed to happen twice a day and reach a height of 100 feet.


Kathe and Jim waited for about an hour and saw some water rising and bubbling out a fair amount. Cold water filled a pool around the geyser and flowed down into the river.  The area all around the geyser was orange and the minerals had made a very weird pattern on the rocks.

It fizzled like that several times but they never saw water shoot out the pipe as they expected. They named it "Old Unfaithful," and came back home to the lounge chairs.