I've already used 'perfect' and 'Paradise' and I'm not sure if there are enough superlatives to describe today. What an absolute stunner! No wonder Stewart Islanders smile so much.
I woke early and decided to skype to a landline in England. The signal wasn't particularly good so I moved my computer out on to the deck and watched the sun start to rise above the trees as I chatted with my Auntie. The next minute swirling fog moved in, the temperature dropped and I grabbed my camera. As I was busy snapping I heard a plane and realised that the fog, though dense where I was looking, had almost gone from the other side of the house. Five minutes later the fog disappeared, leaving blue skies in its place and setting the scene for a magnificent day with a minimum temperature of 6.3°C at 6.57am to a maximum of 20.6°C at 10.27am. I'll let the photos do the talking...
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| View from my deck as the fog rolled in |
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| The fog at its most dense |
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| I'm pretty sure this is a fogbow, also known as a white rainbow |
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| Sunlight shining through the fog as it was lifting |
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| Blue, blue skies |
The day just got better - I grabbed these shots of Halfmoon Bay as I walked through to my rat line at Deep Bay.
