A warning sign graphically describes what you will get if you get too close to the bars below.
Now the hole in the bars was just big enough to rest the camera lens, for a long range shot of Shere Kahn and friends, I didn’t see this divil coming out of stage right until I felt his whiskers rubbing against my right hand. I let out a low wail and jumped backwards about 4 metres much to the delight of the other visitors. I was shaking for about an hour after, good job he was just curious and not hungry.
I witnessed the phenomenon known as the green flash, yesterday in the English channel just south of the bill of Portland. It is a rare enough occurrence up in these waters and I have seen it only a handful of times since I’ve been at sea.
So what is it?
From Bowditch “The American Practical Navigator” (a book every mariner should own…and if not it’s online http://www.irbs.com/bowditch/ )
Green flash. A brilliant green coloring of the upper edge of the sun as it
appears at sunrise or disappears at sunset when there is a clear, distinct
horizon. It is due to refraction by the atmosphere, which disperses
the first (or last) spot of light into a spectrum and causes the
colors to appear (or disappear) in the order of refrangibility. The
green is bent more than red or yellow and hence is visible sooner at
sunrise and later at sunset.
The same colour as the gin bottle featured above. Needless to say I would have tried to take a photograph if I had had a daysunt camera….I didn’t have but maybe Santy will be kind to me this Christmas.
The Victory Gin by the way to be had at all good George Orwell 1984 reunions? (seen at Cardiff Airport of all places)
Anyone else seen the Green Flash?
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