I rarely diverge from my favourite subject but, while travelling down to Dorset yesterday evening (to present at a Dorset Wildlife Trust / BC event), I saw my first ever "shooting star" (yes, I know it's a meteor!). It takes something special to really "move" me these days - but to see a bright light travel across the sky at high speed, leaving a trail of light, in the space of 0.5 seconds ... was just breathtaking. I almost had to pull over to draw breath - I really didn't realise how spectacular such a thing could be!
I've seen the aurora borealis from a plane (from a great distance, while flying back from the west coast of the US in 2005) and I've stood beneath a cloudless sky at 2am in Death Valley between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, admiring stars "all the way to the horizon" in 2007 ... but this experience is definitely "up there" among them!
Makes me feel very small in a very large place
Anyone else experienced anything similar? As you can tell - I'm still in awe
Cheers,
- Pete