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Photo Post: Rio Rainbow

So there I was, up on the roof watering the plants, when I looked up and noticed that the clouds that had been gathering for the last couple of hours had started to clear. It was getting late in the day and I had been wondering if it would rain, but then the sun kind of peeped through below the clouds and lit up the Sugarloaf. I ran to get my camera. I know I bombard you guys with a lot of photos of my local monolith, but it is rather photogenic I’m sure you’ll agree.

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When conditions are right, the sun lights up the face of sugarloaf and makes it look extra magnificent.

 

So, I was just about to put my camera down and get back to the plants when I looked over towards the bay and noticed a weird patch of rainbow in the sky. It clearly wasn’t raining anywhere, yet here was a small patch of rainbow!

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“That’s weird” I thought. I kept watching it…

Not hugely remarkable – maybe there was a weird isolated shower over in that direction? Anyway, I kept watching and it started to get bigger and weirder…

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Hmmm, that’s not really a normal rainbow is it? It’s more like some kind of weird prismed-up skybow (it’s my blog, I’ll use words like ‘prismed-up’ if I like).

 

Then I looked up! You’ll have to tilt your head for this next one, but hopefully you’ll get the basic idea.

Double-rainbow-across-the-sky!

In the words of the Double Rainbow guy, “Woah!!”

 

As I asked myself “What does it mean?” and exclaimed “Double rainbow, all the way!”, I did a quick set of shots to be stitched together (this is a composite of around 6 photos – check out the tiny Sugarloaf at the bottom right to get a sense of the scale here):

You can click this one to see it in higher resolution.

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I’m not sure this really captures how lovely it was, but hopefully it gives you an idea. For once the Sugarloaf was upstaged!

 

As all this was going on, I glanced behind me and saw the whole other half of the sky had gone orange! What an amazing way to end the day.

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7 replies
    • tomlemes
      tomlemes says:

      Ha ha! Nice to see you’re using the approved lingo there Shauny! :)

      p.s. I just looked ‘skybow’ up and apparently it’s like clay pigeon shooting but using bow and arrows. Looks quite fun actually! Also, some kind of mad spinning kite… Skybow.

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