Electric Blue

It's impossible to describe the electrical storms we've experienced in Sydney, so I'll let my camera do the talking. This was the view across the gully from our flat at 6.20pm this evening, the lightning forking onto the Pacific Ocean beyond the houses and flats across the way. No thunder at all, but when it does thunder the sounds are so loud you can feel them rumbling in your chest.

The low cloud you can see billowed upwards into the great big wide sky and made us wonder why the skies are never as spectacular or as colourful at home. I'm reading a book called "The Commonwealth of Thieves", a history of the early settlement at Sydney Cove, and even this describes the wonder the first Europeans here felt at the "electric blue summer skies".

I love Australia.