It sounds trite, but I find that one of the interesting things about Australia is that when you look at the sky, you know you're in a big country. There's something about the sheer scale of the land mass which seems to impact on the clouds which always seem so much higher in the sky than they are where I grew up, in Scotland, where louring, rain-filled, threatening clouds of slate-grey hue sometimes seem close enough to touch. Even in countryside north of Sydney, in the Hawkesbury Valley which is farmland like the landscapes I'm used to and has similar contours, there would be no waking up from a long journey and mistaking it for East Lothian.This picture was taken from the balcony last night. It's spring, the days are sunny but the nights are cool, and the moon beamed through the clouds above the city.
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If you like the Aussie skies then you will love the Kiwi ones (and I am not being overly biased :-)). The stars at night above the Southern Alps is a true sight to behold.
I do know what you mean about everything seeming more vast than it did above British skies.
...they were beautiful, the most
beautiful skies as a matter of fact, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire and the clouds would catch the colours everywhere...its neat because I used to look at them all the time when i was little...
Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)
I had the same feeling in New Mexico...the skies seemed vast. Even in the middle of nowhere in Scotland you don't get that sense of vastness.
That was Rickie Lee Jones wasn't it? Was she talking about California?
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