This image is looking EAST at dusk. It is the setting sun reflected back at the clouds directly over the ocean on the east coast. I often call it my reverse sunset. Because I live on an east facing hill, the sun 'sets' more than half an hour earlier for me because my property is lower than the ridge.
Tonight was rather spectacular after a cold day with static zapping me as snow has been falling in parts of NSW and even in QLD which is so rare! I know a few of my friends here will have felt the snow in the winds today too - wow!
@elatedpixie yeah it won't snow here where I am but up on the tablelands it is. Wouldn't be enough to ski, but enough to play I guess. But QLD it is very rare (I'm about 1.5 hours from the border to QLD) So you would not equate snow with me - I've never actually seen snow!
@sugarmuser I would have missed it except I was like - oh no I have to get a dusk photo ... it was like this literally for about 5 minutes - just kind of the last flash as the sun drops behind the hill.
Spectacular image. You'll have to get hot water bottles for your Koalas if the temperature really falls. On a more serious note I'm sure evolution has prepared them for the potential of cold weather.
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@jesika2 yes the cold doesn't bother them at all. there are koalas in areas where it is very close to the snowy mountains. It is in fact the main reason they are so close to extinction - they were killed by the millions every year until 1930 because of their superior pelt. So I'm sure they handled that wind out there yesterday far better than I did :)
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