A few years ago we were crossing the Saguenay River on the ferry —this is the only way to get to our town, or, I guess you have a choice between this ferry that takes a few minutes and one from the other side of the Saint Lawrence River that takes a couple hours*— and my son was looking up the fiord at sunset and he said "Regard, un arc-en-ciel horizontal!"
I'm thinking, "A horizontal rainbow? What is he talking about?" But then I checked along the horizon and he was right, if you looked closely you could see red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple stripes glowing in the evening light between the soaring cliffs.
Here on the beach we have horizontal rainbows fairly often as the sun sets behind the hills on the other side of the sky. We see the sun rise over the ocean, but we are not oriented to see the sun set over the water. That's okay, I appreciate our "arc-en-ciel horizontal." And the moon rising over the ocean like the one in the photo.
*You can also drive up the Sageunay and around Lac Saint Jean, but why would you unless the road is closed or the ferry is not operating due to bad weather. Or if you wanted to taste some giant blueberries, or visit some friendly "Blueberries" which is what they call people from that region!
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