Lunar Rainbow

Belated Happy New Year every one! I spent mine at Victoria Falls, bearing in mind, as I always do, what a wise Russian friend told me long ago. "You end the year the way you begin it."

There was a full moon on the 31st which meant that the falls were open to visitors hoping to catch sight of a lunar rainbow. A group of us who stayed at Waterberry Lodge, a peaceful and unpretentious place on the banks of the Zambezi River, left for the falls after sunset armed with champagne and cameras. The clouds slowly cleared. With help from Photoshop this is what the rainbow looked like. Back at Waterberry, we enjoyed a late dinner and afterwards sat around a camp fire listening to the territorial snorts of hippos. On New Year's Day, a fine sunny day, I returned to the falls to photograph the falls' solar rainbow. The picture was taken looking across the gorge into Zimbabwe, a country which shares the famous falls with Zambia.

10-03-2010