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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanJul 22, 10 Comments Off
Hi friends and readers of the Curacao blog, how is everyone this fine evening?? I always try hard to write these little stories between 7-9 pm, I hate doing them in the morning as it takes way too much time! Today I had the day off with Aimee and we started things out by taking the three dogs out for a hot morning walk. We got out there at around 7:00 and it was already hot and by 9:00 we could hardly breath and both of us were completely soaked from the 100% humidity! Even though there was no wind at all this morning we still tried to do some much needed trail maintenance on the Calabash because it’s gets so much traffic! Once back home we hid inside for most of the day and get this, I even laid down and took a two hour nap!! Yes, you read that right, I took a nap. I know, what’s happening to me?? I even had a dream that the mini-sub was at the surface floating like a boat and we were pulling Aimee at top speed on skis, she did great! At 5;30 I met a friend for a fast and hot one hour ride on all the single-track trails we could find, it was great fun but man we were soaked to the bone upon our return.
Here’s another fun shot of the beautiful Sun Halo’s we have down here once or twice a year. I think this is our friend Loet’s arm and hand that was used for this shot but I can’t be sure. As some of you already know a Sun Halo (also known as a nimbus, icebow or Gloriole) is an optical phenomenon produced by ice crystals creating colored or white arcs and spots in the sky. Many are near the sun or moon but others are elsewhere and even in the opposite part of the sky. They can also form around artificial lights in very cold weather when ice crystals called diamond dust are floating in the nearby air. There are many types of ice halos. They are produced by the ice crystals in cirrus clouds high (5–10 km, or 3–6 miles) in the upper trosphere. The particular shape and orientation of the crystals is responsible for the type of halo observed. Light is reflected and refracted by the ice crystals and may split up into rainbow colors because of dispersion. The crystals behave like prisms and mirrors, refracting and reflecting sunlight between their faces, sending shafts of light in particular directions.
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