Make a wish
I went for a stroll along the beachfront Monday night - the last night before the long weekend ended. The storms had finally passed, the rain had almost stopped and the wind had died down. Really, the first time all weekend that it was in anyway civilized outside.
It's great along the beachfront after a big storm - the waters are too wild for anyone other than surfers and the huge waves bring them out in droves. Its no wonder sharks seem to attack surfers because on early Monday evening the black dots on their surfboards looked so much like seals it would confuse the smartest of mammals....
The huge storms and resulting flooding didn't really hurt the Manly area but there were signs that we had been through some rough weather: the winds had blown so much sand over the pathway to the roads - that it almost looked like a second beach. So a little bit of mess, but also a great amount of beauty. So much so, that I had to stop on the second beach and just soak it all up.
The sky was a mixture of storm clouds and clear patches that allowed single beams of sunlight to stream through. Between the second beach where I stood and the distant ocean, the real beach had that wet sand look that so rarely covers the entire beach given its size, the wild waves were peppered with the surfers and the on the distant horizon the tankers were coming in amid some adventurous sailboats. But what stopped me was this beautiful sailboat that was being lit up by a stray sunbeam near the dark clouds and was framed by the most beautiful rainbow that arced over the entire beach.
A rainbow - that as a I stood there - developed into a double rainbow from Queenscliff to Manly.
It stopped everybody. We just stood and admired for close to half an hour until it started to fade.
I didn't look for the pot of gold (despite being able to see the end of the rainbow) but I did make a wish. I figure if something as rare - and beautiful - as that happens, you are meant to wish on it.
It's great along the beachfront after a big storm - the waters are too wild for anyone other than surfers and the huge waves bring them out in droves. Its no wonder sharks seem to attack surfers because on early Monday evening the black dots on their surfboards looked so much like seals it would confuse the smartest of mammals....
The huge storms and resulting flooding didn't really hurt the Manly area but there were signs that we had been through some rough weather: the winds had blown so much sand over the pathway to the roads - that it almost looked like a second beach. So a little bit of mess, but also a great amount of beauty. So much so, that I had to stop on the second beach and just soak it all up.
The sky was a mixture of storm clouds and clear patches that allowed single beams of sunlight to stream through. Between the second beach where I stood and the distant ocean, the real beach had that wet sand look that so rarely covers the entire beach given its size, the wild waves were peppered with the surfers and the on the distant horizon the tankers were coming in amid some adventurous sailboats. But what stopped me was this beautiful sailboat that was being lit up by a stray sunbeam near the dark clouds and was framed by the most beautiful rainbow that arced over the entire beach.
A rainbow - that as a I stood there - developed into a double rainbow from Queenscliff to Manly.
It stopped everybody. We just stood and admired for close to half an hour until it started to fade.
I didn't look for the pot of gold (despite being able to see the end of the rainbow) but I did make a wish. I figure if something as rare - and beautiful - as that happens, you are meant to wish on it.
posted by lala at
10:59 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home