Indian Ocean Sunset

Warning: Hokie sentiments below: Finally in route to Australia, with Deb in asleep next to me, head in my lap, I raised the window shade to see one of the most vivid sunsets I have ever seen. I don't know if it was because we were 35,000 feet in the air, or because the air over the oceans is relatively polution free, but the oranges, purples and indigos I saw from the plane were breath taking. With each passing moment, they got darker, richer and fuller. I took 13 pictures of the same scene because each minute produced a better image. It struck me that of all the things I had seen in the last 6 weeks around the world, one of the most amazing was just light being bent through the prism of our atmosphere. This image only existed for those of us in that spot for that moment, and then shortly it was gone. I didn't know what Australia held for us, but I couldn't help but feel that everything that happened that day happened to lead me to this spot at this time so that I could see this picture. And for that moment, everything was right.