Day 20 - Sun Halo, But No Sunset

I woke up at the crack of dawn and by 6.30am I was up and showering in preparation for a new day of adventures or just sunbathing.

I watched my iPad in the cool morning fresh air until Jackie finally joined me over 2 hours later for coffee. For breakfast she knocked up a sensational omelette.

We drove, yes drove, to the beach around 11am. It was cooler, just 24*C with a wispy cloud coverage. It was an ideal temperature.

Around lunchtime we were treated to a sun halo, also known as a 22-degree halo. It an optical phenomenon that appears as a bright ring of light around the sun. It's caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals in high-altitude cirrus clouds. These clouds, often thin and wispy, are made of ice crystals that act like tiny prisms, bending and scattering the sunlight.

At 2.30pm the clouds had darkened and so we reluctantly departed and drove into Guilvinec our local port town less than 2 miles away for a quick drive through recce.

We returned to camp had a cheese sandwich and went to bed for a couple of hours during which time we had a little downpour which hadn’t been forecast.

We rose around 6.30pm, caught up on the big sporting events taking place, tennis and cricket, then set about preparing dinner whilst basking in the evening sun.

Jackie jazzed up the remainder of last nights Spag Bol with a ratatouille and some other ingredients I don’t pretend to know what. We ate it with rigatoni pasta.

At 9.45pm, I insisted I wanted to go back down to the beach to watch the sunset. Jackie was not enamoured with this idea and said she’d only go if I drove.

I wanted to walk off my dinner so after a somewhat animated discussion I set off on foot with a beach bag with Jackie reluctantly following behind. I had visions of a romantic beach sunset listening to chilled music with a glass of wine and swimming in a pink tinted sea.

It didn’t quite turn out like that. As we arrived several groups were leaving so that the only people on the beach were us and a flute playing hippy. Jackie refused my offer of wine (which confirmed this wasn’t going well) so I poured just half a glass for myself and we sat in silence as the clouds darkened overhead.

Less than 15 minutes later after I begrudgingly accepted there was to be no sunset, we trudged back to camp under a very dark sky.

Around 11.30pm we went to bed to the sound of distant fireworks in Guilvinec.

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