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Valcour Island, NY
44 37.36 N 073 24.50 W
I'm delighted to be wrong. Last night I posted a blog saying that it would be too cloudy to see the meteor shower. Guess what? As soon as I posted the article, it cleared up. Libby and I took cushions and a blanket up to the foredeck to see what we could see. We not only saw meteors, we also saw (I think) a bit of aurora.
Aurora? What we actually saw looked like very faint waves of light moving very quickly across the sky. It didn't look like any aurora we've seen before. Nevertheless, what caused that light. I wonder if it could have been reflections of light from the Vermont and/or New York shores. We are about 3 miles from Grand Isle Vermont and 3 from the mainland in New York. Very distant car headlights might have been reflected from something in the sky.
Today we hiked the trails, ate a picnic lunch on the rim of a cliff, and gathered pine needles. Tonight I hope to build a fire on our favorite point of land.
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Perhaps light reflecting off water vapor. That moisture is still around. Like flying at night and you see the rotating beacon reflecting in the sky but no opaque or visable clouds. Ken
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