Waiheke Island, New Zealand

By: Kerry

When the tallest thing around is a palm tree, the sky seems a whole lot bigger.

Call me a nerd, but one of the things I most enjoyed about Fiji was the extravagant cloud formations. Almost every day, there would be some vast, abstract masterpiece splashed across the sky.

Often, there would be a whole catalogue of cloud ‘types’ jumbled up together: sheep’s wool cumulus and mare’s tails, a mackerel sky, lenticular pancakes and anvils of thunder.

I left it a bit late in the season to make any real photographic study of them, but here’s a selection of Fiji skies…

(Click on a photo and you get a pop-up gallery. To exit the gallery, click the X that appears at the top left of the black side panel when you run your mouse over it).

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