The Upside to Abusing Cacao

Last night about 9pm I had a fruit salad. It was tasty. What wasn't so clever was putting raw choco­late sauce on it (cacao pow­der, coconut oil, raw honey).

I went to sleep around 1–1:30ish. At 3:30 I woke up, wide awake, and could NOT get back to sleep.

Ok, so cacao late at night = bad idea. I'll remem­ber that. I've now been awake for 20 odd hours, and it doesn't show signs of abating.

One upside though, I got to watch the sun­rise. Because of the incred­i­ble weather pat­terns over Mel­bourne — a com­bi­na­tion of sea air, inter­est­ing land­mass cur­va­ture, moun­tains and many thou­sand miles of desert air, all com­bin­ing in one place — I got to see all this in the space of about an hour (click each pic for a big­ger version):

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And oddly, after all that, it was actu­ally quite a cloudy day. You can see this start­ing in the last shot. Amazing.

I never get tired of watch­ing nature at play.