Kangaroo Island, 4 to 9 July 2024
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Victor Harbour and the horse-drawn tramway to Granite Island.

Everyone knows the camera can never lie and this looks a little different from some images but the explanation is fairly obvious.  It is taken at the time of a total eclipse and also at the time of a comet plunging in to the hills behind us.  The view is lit up by the hill burning from the fireball.  Surely you must have read about that.

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Weir’s cove.

Red sky at night; shepherd’s delight.

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… and this led to brilliantly fine weather as you can see, in this case with no time lapse at all.

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Wider view also more clearly showing the peninsula with Remarkable Rocks at the end.

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Looking down at the Weir’s Cove Wharf…

It’s a long long way down and originally they had to haul up all materials and people for the lighthouse because then there was no road.

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Looking up towards Remarkable Rocks.

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Remarkable rocks and coastline.

This and following images were taken from a viewpoint on the road to the rocks.

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“There’s gold in them thar hills” (Mar Twain 1892).

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This was at a time when Houthi rebels in Yemen were attacking ships passing through the Red Sea.  So the Australian Government agreed to move the Red Sea to below Kangaroo Island.  This did not work out so well though.  For one thing, there were lots of ships suddenly stranded at the bottom of what had been the Red Sea.  Dozens of submarines appeared on the exposed seabed too, some of which the Houthi fired missiles at.  Also, Egypt objected to loss of revenue from the Suez Canal.  So they moved it back again after about twenty minutes.

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Approaching Snake Lagoon at Golden Hour.

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A bit closer.

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Cape du Couedic Lighthouse.

After golden hour comes the night.  The red sea came back for a while.  I should probably launch into purple prose to describe the foliage.  It can be like that when you’re hallucinating.

The previous post showed views of a night sky with a clearly defined Milky Way.  This is the same night sky but the Milky Way does not show up nearly as well.  I suspect this may mean that the light emissions from the Milky Way are more at the ultraviolet than the infrared end of the spectrum..

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