Aurora borealis? Nah cloudyalis more like

The Safari tried to see if the re was any hint of the predicted aurora last night, even though we are probably too far south unless its a real good solar storm and this one just whizzed passed was supposed to be the strongest for at least five years. Low cloud foiled our attempts, all we could see to the north was the light pollution from Lancaster hitting the underside of the cloud. Above the moon was trying to illuminate the night time world and almost succeeded a few times. No sign of Saturn but in short breaks in the cloud cover Mars was shining as brightly as a only sunlit large rusty ball can.

No safaris of note today, two visits to patch 2 gave us precious little with low mist smothering the sea from the near-middle distance out and a heavy chop hiding every thing closer in.

By way of an alternative we present you with a few pics from this year's Young Seasiders Art Competition.

If we've got one of those on our swimming team we should get a medal or two!

Think this one is brill - we'd never think of blobbing paint around and making squiggles to come up with something as exciting as this portrait (View on black)

 No idea what this is supposed to be but the homage to nature is very laudable.

Detail..

Wonder if SAN turns into Sandwiches? Would if it was our piece!

Where to next? Weekend...and an interesting sighting of a new amphibian for the area along the North Blackpool Pond Trail to be investigated...and then there's those owls and that/those Bitterns.

In the meantime let us know what's been squiggling in your outback.