Cross Winds

Moon Clouds Hail Stones

Waking to a lovely morning with gentle breeze the mountains were relatively clear at 9 am in the morning, birds song added peace in the valley.

Mid-morning contentedly looking above this sight captured the imagination of a little dragon laid back puffing away quite peaceably above.

Mid-afternoon clouds started rolling in over the escarpment, no surprise, having been a relatively hot day.

Cold air suddenly swooped down the valley, what strange tumbling change in weather at high altitude. Prior to sudden developments....

No wind with temperature close to 29 Celsius, at end of day small hail stones fell from the sky above.

'Potion' blending above for interesting sunset, onset of storms are swift, a Hikers Drakensberg Mountains nightmare, one minute in bright sunlight the next moment surrounded within swirling inclement weather.

Children obviously from the coast were having fun collecting hail stones into containers, not something we see often....

Lightning strikes with rolling thunder booming between the basalt cliffs happened at night fortunately, leaving children happy collecting ice for Dad's 'sundowner'.....

Starting the day off with cumulus clouds which normally means good weather by late afternoon changed shape and form in a very short period of time into cumulonimbus clouds producing heavy rain with hail.

Spectacular Cloud Dance

On the opposite side of the valley the pink bubbly effect....

Back to performance that took my breath away!

Whispy silky clouds peeling off the main cloud lifted by high winds, a sight one could imagine what chaos happens slightly higher up to where we are firmly planted on the ground.

On three nights we had Zeus moving furniture around on the tops of Lesotho, dancing a path down into the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, always lovely to sit outdoors watching the sky light up, sudden rain or brilliant sunset after sudden rains.

Scary, a bit chaotic, something like everyday life in cities, except nature rules here!

Happy Sunday, thanks for visiting hope you ventured out and enjoyed it!

Thanks #BeautifulSunday with @ace108 and #SublimeSunday host @c0ff33a sharing a place to enjoy our Sunday to the full. #AmazingNature where nature talks to you in gusts or whispers.

All photography is my own using a Canon PowerShot SC730 HS, resized for easier loading, writing is my own.

Thought for Today The eye never forgets what the heart has seen. - African Proverb

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