Chasing comets

Well one comet in particular, comet McNaught has been hanging around lately but to photograph it two events need to occur. First there must be a clear sky, at least to the west anyway, and second and most important is I need to remember. So far this has happened twice.

The first night I went out near the airport which has a pretty clear view and I came up with these

The next time that I remembered, and the sky was clear I went out to a place called Gellibrand hill, I saw in the melways that it has 360 deg views and was in the middle of a great big park with walking tracks, homestead ruins, a koorie cemetary, and other usual park like things, sounds good I thought.

While I did think to check the batteries in the torch, unfortunately I forgot to take the torch from the coffee table to the car, so there I was walking through what turned out to be more like the bush than a park, with only the light of the moon and my mobile phone I made my way to the top, which was easy to find as it has a great big radar with red lights going round and round. There I took a few shots including this

After taking a few different shots I thought I might try another view from other parts of the hill, as I started walking away I heard voices of people coming my way. I figured they were probably up there doing what I was, but I didn't really want to find out. Then my phone beeped.Serving two purposes, one to let me know the battery was flat, and two to alertothers of my presence. This has all the makings of a horror movie I thought remembering that Aussie movie "Wolf creek". While I was in a hurry to get back to the car I stopped for a couple more shots on the way, then I heard twigs breaking and leaves cracking, I prepared for the worst, then heard who ever it was scurry up a tree. "I'm going home, I hope the car's still where I left it"

I'm going to have to see this place during the day, I'm sure I'll have a laugh at how lame I was, 31 years old and apparently I'm still scared of the dark!