Photos from our Motorcycle trip in August, 2005.
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Picture #52 - Calistoga's Old Faithful Geyser is an artificial geyser.
I snapped this photo of the eruption on August 19, 2005 in Calistoga, California. The proprietors claim this is one of only three "Old Faithful Geysers" in the world, one being here in Calistoga, one being in Yellowstone in Wyoming, and the last being in New Zealand. A little bit of research on the Internet, however, revealed the proprietors of this spout are not telling the whole story. In a number of places where there is geothermal activity wells have been drilled and fitted with impermeable casements that allow them to erupt like geysers. Though these so-called ''artificial geysers'', technically known as ''erupting geothermal wells'', are not true geysers, they can be quite spectacular. Little Old Faithful Geyser, in Calistoga, California, is an erupting geothermal well.
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