I apologise in advance for these very uninspiring images.
I had to record what I saw as a visual diary.
Saturday 8th August 2009 at around 10.00pm. Three orange lights/globes appeared in the sky in my back garden. By the time I got my camera only one was left. They made no noise. They were not planes. They were below cloud level. They moved purposefully and were not just floating. They all went off in different directions. They moved at about the speed of a small aircraft.
Have you ever seen anything like this? Have you an idea what they might be? If you click on the above photo you will also see two faint moon like shapes either side of the light.
It was a fascinating and yet eerie sight. It was dead quiet.
On a lighter note, another strange sighting was to see my Hibiscus in bloom. Not flowers 'the size of dinner plates' as promised by a TV gardening guru but quite pleasing none-the-less.
A view from the beach.
Camels waiting to take tourists on a trek.
The door to our apartment. (Only kidding!)
Demonstration of the heat under the ground at the Timanfaya National Park. Some straw was put in a hole a couple of metres below ground and it immediately ignited!
Looking into a volcano.
The lunar-like landscape of the solidified lava flows.
The green lagoon at El Golfo.
I believe the works above and below to be that of Cesar Manrique.
He was a locally born artist of Lanzarote whose work and influence can be seen all over the island. The pictures of these huge fish sculptures were taken in the hotel we were staying at.
