Bart Bear's Blog

You see all sorts of things out of the window when you travel. This is a pretty one, a rainbow. We saw it late in the afternoon of the first day of our Indian-Pacific trip. We are somewhere west of Bathurst in western New South Wales and have just passed through a series of rain showers. Dad says that you get rainbows when the angle between you, the Sun and fine raindrops is just right. The raindrops scatter the sunlight and split it into colours. Dad uses gear that does the same thing to light from stars and galaxies, and he can tell all sorts of things about what they are made from and how they work. I think rainbows are very pretty things and one of these days I will manage to get to the end of one and see if there really is a pot of gold there.

Labels: New South Wales, train