Tuesday 16 December, 2003 at 5:43PM (Nereus)  ::  permalink  ::  comments (5)

Did I ever mention that we get some very impressive sunsets here from time to time? The sky here seems so much 'bigger' than in New Zealand. I'm not quite sure how to explain it, I guess the clouds travel at a much higher altitude here for some reason, and it causes the sky (especially in the evenings) to look positively vast, much moreso than I've ever seen in NZ.

Tonight was a variation. On any given night you can look out our lounge window about an hour after sunset and see the lights of 10 to 15 planes scattered across the sky (fortunately we rarely hear them, they all travel at high altitude as much as possible to avoid noise pollution). There is not much wind about at the moment and only a moderate amount of thin wispy elongated clouds at very high altitude, but the temperature must be just right for the airplanes to leave long lasting vapor trails. When I looked out a little before sunset, the vapor trails were criss-crossing all over the sky. It looked like someone had scribbled over the sky with a light grey marker pen. Pretty kewl. Just thought I'd share that with you. The pics here are the view from our lounge taken on a different evening.