moonbows

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If this all doesn't blow your mind, check out some moonbows to be stunned for sure.

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Cahill is one of the few who have seen rare moonbows, petrified forests and odd faces in the hoodoo formations while walking the outback.

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Cahill is one of the few who have seen rare moonbows, petrified forests and odd faces in the hoodoo formations while walking the outback.

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Near Tennessee, there was a waterfall with one of only two moonbows in the world.

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The air filling the en-closing semicircle of the falls was further thickened by an up rushing mist that looked like steam; in it half a dozen moonbows gleamed like gaudy, interlocking dream-jewelry.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

They are inside the wizard's glass, they are inside the pink storm (those pink halos revolving around the light fixtures re-mind Jake of The Falls of the Hounds, and the moonbows revolving in the mist), and this is happening all over again.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

They still hung above the moon-misty drop, the moonbows still made their slow and dreamlike revolutions before the cur-tain of endlessly falling water, the wet and brutal stone faces of the dog-guardians continued to jut out of the torrent, but that world-ending thunder was gone.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

But those who are aware of the rare spectacle know that one of the greatest places in the world to experience it is in moonbows' are created by the light of the moon, making them best viewed during a full moon.

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"As the last of the miniature moonbows faded from sight, he saw that not only was it no longer damp -- it was no longer night.

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