** Picture of the Day 3 **

[tachyonbb]

 

[klmall]

summer skiers on The Eiger (13,015 ft. elevation) in Switzerland

 

[goopysolelady]

Sticking with the calming photos again after 3+ hours in the dentist chair only to have our dinner interrupted with our phones "blowing up" with news of a search for an escaped prisoner in our neighborhood! He'd been brought to the hospital ER (which is 2 blocks from our house) for tests; DGD was the first one to call to let us know they'd gone into lock down at the dance studio where she was teaching evening classes. Before we knew it there were DPS helicopters with search lights above us; police cars with their red & blue lights flashing going up and down our street; officers and their dogs walking in our yards ! Ready to get an extra strength Tylenol for the tooth/mouth pain and crawl into bed! As of midnight he was still at large....

 

[OKW Lover]

 

[klmall]

 

[PrincessInOz]

1 January 2025
Gunnamatta Beach

Aurora alerts were in full scale overdrive at 8 pm at night. It's summer in Oz, so twilight only hits at 9.30 pm.
Problem was........clouds. It was nearly wall to wall clouds at 8 pm at night.


A friend and I made the last minute decision to 'go' at 9 pm; and we were both in the car by 9.30 pm. We were heading to a south facing beach about an hours drive outside of Melbourne; meaning light pollution was also significantly less.


10.30 pm. The clouds when we arrived. More than the clouds.....the colour behind the clouds was intense. It was have been a G2 strength aurora when we got there.







Miraculously......the clouds blew away. This was the difference 15 minutes made. Aurora strength was still at G2.






At 11.10 pm, the phones dinged again alerting us that the aurora was at G3 strength.

This is what the G3 looked like.






Check out the intensity and height of the beams!







At G3, I could clearly see the yellow/green as a grey fog.
The pink was a diffuse colour in the sky but I could clearly see the pink (at about 15% of the colour picked up by the camera).
The beams appears as white poles in the sky.


This aurora was relatively static. Nothing moved very much. I have certainly seen other auroras where the grey/green swirls and the poles dance about in the sky.



This image was taken at about 12.45 am. By this time, I was kinda ready to go but my shooting partner was still getting a few more in.








By the time he packed up, it was 1.15 am.
As he was packing up, I looked up to the sky and gasped. I told him to unpack, as I did the same.
The phones dinged as we were unpacking, with the alerts that the aurora was at G4 strength (the second highest classification).












We called it a night .... or morning.... at 2 am. He had to go to work the next day.



What a great start to the year it has been for me!

 

[goopysolelady]

1 January 2025
Gunnamatta Beach

Aurora alerts were in full scale overdrive at 8 pm at night. It's summer in Oz, so twilight only hits at 9.30 pm.
Problem was........clouds. It was nearly wall to wall clouds at 8 pm at night.


A friend and I made the last minute decision to 'go' at 9 pm; and we were both in the car by 9.30 pm. We were heading to a south facing beach about an hours drive outside of Melbourne; meaning light pollution was also significantly less.


10.30 pm. The clouds when we arrived. More than the clouds.....the colour behind the clouds was intense. It was have been a G2 strength aurora when we got there.

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Miraculously......the clouds blew away. This was the difference 15 minutes made. Aurora strength was still at G2.

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At 11.10 pm, the phones dinged again alerting us that the aurora was at G3 strength.

This is what the G3 looked like.

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Check out the intensity and height of the beams!

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At G3, I could clearly see the yellow/green as a grey fog.
The pink was a diffuse colour in the sky but I could clearly see the pink (at about 15% of the colour picked up by the camera).
The beams appears as white poles in the sky.


This aurora was relatively static. Nothing moved very much. I have certainly seen other auroras where the grey/green swirls and the poles dance about in the sky.



This image was taken at about 12.45 am. By this time, I was kinda ready to go but my shooting partner was still getting a few more in.


View attachment 932584





By the time he packed up, it was 1.15 am.
As he was packing up, I looked up to the sky and gasped. I told him to unpack, as I did the same.
The phones dinged as we were unpacking, with the alerts that the aurora was at G4 strength (the second highest classification).

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We called it a night .... or morning.... at 2 am. He had to go to work the next day.



What a great start to the year it has been for me!

AMAZING! WHAT A SHOW! Our youngest daughter is going to be SOOOO jealous when I show these pictures to her!

 

[goopysolelady]

On a "soft diet" after the dental work yesterday WISHING I had a piece of this amazing Key Lime Pie :

 

[OKW Lover]

 

[goopysolelady]

Can't imagine the waves the past couple of days at Giants Causeway in northern Ireland. Allie and I struggled walking in 40+ mph winds during our visit; they've had 110+mph winds during the storm that passed over Ireland, Scotland and northern England!

 

[OKW Lover]

 

[klmall]

Going back through some old pics and found this

"World's Largest Rocking Chair" south of Colorado Springs, CO; built in 1990

 

[goopysolelady]

Going back through "old/not so old" pictures too this weekend. BHS Brahmadora's had their first competition of the 2025 season last Saturday and remembering Katie's competitions as a Brahmadora last year. She choreographed their Jazz number this year and they received an Overall 1st Place award! Miss those times...

 

[OKW Lover]

 

[klmall]

1 January 2025
Gunnamatta Beach

Aurora alerts were in full scale overdrive at 8 pm at night. It's summer in Oz, so twilight only hits at 9.30 pm.
Problem was........clouds. It was nearly wall to wall clouds at 8 pm at night.


A friend and I made the last minute decision to 'go' at 9 pm; and we were both in the car by 9.30 pm. We were heading to a south facing beach about an hours drive outside of Melbourne; meaning light pollution was also significantly less.


10.30 pm. The clouds when we arrived. More than the clouds.....the colour behind the clouds was intense. It was have been a G2 strength aurora when we got there.

View attachment 932576





Miraculously......the clouds blew away. This was the difference 15 minutes made. Aurora strength was still at G2.

View attachment 932577




At 11.10 pm, the phones dinged again alerting us that the aurora was at G3 strength.

This is what the G3 looked like.

View attachment 932578




Check out the intensity and height of the beams!

View attachment 932583





At G3, I could clearly see the yellow/green as a grey fog.
The pink was a diffuse colour in the sky but I could clearly see the pink (at about 15% of the colour picked up by the camera).
The beams appears as white poles in the sky.


This aurora was relatively static. Nothing moved very much. I have certainly seen other auroras where the grey/green swirls and the poles dance about in the sky.



This image was taken at about 12.45 am. By this time, I was kinda ready to go but my shooting partner was still getting a few more in.


View attachment 932584





By the time he packed up, it was 1.15 am.
As he was packing up, I looked up to the sky and gasped. I told him to unpack, as I did the same.
The phones dinged as we were unpacking, with the alerts that the aurora was at G4 strength (the second highest classification).

View attachment 932585


View attachment 932587



View attachment 932588



We called it a night .... or morning.... at 2 am. He had to go to work the next day.



What a great start to the year it has been for me!

Wow! And such patience PIO!

 

[goopysolelady]

What a difference a week makes! 30 and snow falling last Monday night; 53 tonight!

 

[OKW Lover]

This statue is still there but most of Dinoland is walled off. Picture taken on January 27, 2025.

 

[klmall]

 

[goopysolelady]

 

[OKW Lover]