Monday, May 25, 2009

Lunar rainbow over Victoria Falls

Lunar Rainbow over Victoria Falls

"Tonight I saw the lunar rainbow, as the full moon shone through the spray over Victoria Falls.  It was a sideways half-circle, perfectly round, white with pastel shades of gentle colour.  There were crowds of people at the first view point, then just a few people 5 metres down, and no one but us on the Knife Edge Bridge.  From here the top of the rainbow disappeared into the cliff over Zimbabwe and the bottom disappeared into the chasm of the Falls.  In June the spray is so heavy you can't see much and by August there won't be enough spray to create the rainbow.  July is the time, and we were there- alone."