The Bureau of Meteorology was quoted as saying that there was a possibility of ash being blown from volcanic eruption at Tonga onto the eastern coast of Australia, and there could be ash in the sunset was the reason I ran to the garden last night.
Sunset is currently at 5:45 and the time I was outside looking up was 6:05. I was not disappointed.
Surprised and excited at the patchwork of colours and shapes, I took this first shot toward my left as I stood on the lawn in the garden. The light whispery cloud formation of deep orange and red blended colours sitting beside dark rain clouds was a most impressive sight.
Then, further over toward the middle section of the sky surrounded by blue I saw this. This photo was taken on my bench seat in the Bali hut and the reason a fringe of roof's straw reed branches is framing this shot.
Moving the camera of the iPhone toward the left of the sky as the clouds and colours were rapidly changing. Sunset displays come and go quickly. In my last photo this particular pretty sunset was not only framed by the fringes of the thatched straw it was also framed by the roofs of the nearby houses and distant trees. A touch of suburbia!
Later the weather reported that ash was in the sunset further up north on Lord Howe Island. Definitely no ash in the sunset, on the south eastern coast of Queensland.
A little disappointed at not seeing the effect of ash on the sunset it was nonetheless still a spectacular colour slideshow display put on by Mother Nature.
