Today while hiking I noticed that the high tide was super huge - almost up to the road out at white sands beach! And I suddenly realized, 'oh yeah, full moon'. So this evening I looked out the window and there was the moon rising above Mill Bay. It was HUGE. It turns out that this is not an optical illusion but that the moon is actually really close to the earth at this time. This is what is known as a super moon.
I got this from the internet:
Monday morning you might get a chance to see the Supermoon. Monday at 5:15 a.m., the moon will appear 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter when it makes its closest pass to Earth. The moon will also be completely full. This hasn't happened since 1948. The moon will not appear this big or bright again until 2034. (Published Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016)
So for tonight's night drive Stuey, Nora and I tried to take a picture of the moon. We first drove out to the Deadman's Curve pullout, and it was looking good. But just as we got there the moon went behind the clouds. Still I got a cool picture of Stuey looking back in through the windshield with the lights of town in the background. And while vainly waiting for the moon to reappear we noticed that the moonlight was lighting up patches of the ocean in the distance. It was like the moon was shining a spotlight on just certain spots of the bay.
Stuey REALLY wanted a picture of the moon for his blog so when we got back to Mill Bay, and there was the moon, we stopped and tried again. I think I did pretty good for using a point and shoot and no tripod. I braced off of the roof of the car.
Patrick
PS - This morning I woke up for some reason and moonlight was shining in the window - I looked out and saw the full moon high in the sky. I looked at the clock and it was 5:15 - the moment the moon was actually full. Later after Nora got up we both went outside to look at the moon (it is pretty much clear this morning), and Nora said, 'It's so big it looks like it is going to come to rest on the guest house.'
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