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I headed off to the Altona lookout — one of my favourite places in Melbourne. What a view of the storm.

I timed it to see the full moon rise. I was expecting it to rise over the Brighton area, and was astounded to see this. You can see the storm creeping into the frame:

I left before the 21:15 fireworks over Melbourne because it started raining. And it rained and rained and rained.

By the time New Years came around, there were fireworks going off everywhere. I climbed onto the roof and everywhere I looked there were fireworks. It was blowing a gail, raining, and fireworks in a 360° view. Lightning was lighting up the sky and thunder was crashing around everywhere.

What a performance! What a fantastic way to see in the new year.

Happy New TwennyTen!

Between shows I rushed home so I could video chat Sarah. She was about to leave, so I bid farewell and decided that since it was such a gorgeous afternoon, I might go try and climb the hill. (This photo was taken yesterday)

The moon was sitting there just above the trees.

At this stage I was starting to hurry because I knew the sun would be setting very soon. And if I was lucky, I might even be able to snap a shot of it setting behind San Francisco.

I was lucky.

Then I saw the most peculiar thing. The sun was below the horizon and it looked like it was shining through the water. I figured that the sun was just reflecting off the atmosphere and again reflecting off the ocean. You can see it clearly.

On my way, I discovered that if I climbed the hill just on the side of the road, I would have an uninterrupted view of the Bay and all the cities. Wow.

Zooming in a little.

And a little more.

The wind was pretty strong this afternoon. I stacked the kite and my hat was ripped off. When I went to grab my hat, the wind grabbed the kite and I was pulled away from the hat.

After I landed the kite, I went back to try and find it to no avail. And my mates that were still out kite surfing had a ball spraying me with water as they went past.

When I got home, Sar came with me back to the beach to see if my hat had washed up onto the sand. We couldn’t find it.

I loved that hat. Sar hated it.

Here is a picture of the sunset that we saw.