Lovely, and with multiple colors, no less! I've only seen the northern lights once, and not anywhere near as vividly. However, the setting was wonderful and since we were in Ithaca, NY (a good bit farther south), we were quite surprised as well!
If you look on this map/satellite image, you'll see a thin white line extending north into the lake from the center section of land on the south shore. It's a long breakwater about 3 feet wide, ending in a small lighthouse. Or maybe "beacon" is a better word, as "house" is definitely stretching it. You could get out there by parking at the public park along the beach on the eastern section of land, walking through the park to a bridge over to the center section (not visible here), and then through a golf course back to the beginning of the breakwater. And then it was just a long walk along it out into the middle of the lake.
There's not a huge amount to do in Ithaca, and sneaking out there late at night was an occasional activity- once you get out there its very peaceful surrounded by that much water. And one night several of us had gone out there and noticed that the sky seemed oddly green...
We didn't see dramatically defined sheets of color, but a more subdued show of green regions fading in and out, slowly spreading across a large part of the sky, and then slipping away. It was a beautiful night.
If you look on this map/satellite image, you'll see a thin white line extending north into the lake from the center section of land on the south shore. It's a long breakwater about 3 feet wide, ending in a small lighthouse. Or maybe "beacon" is a better word, as "house" is definitely stretching it. You could get out there by parking at the public park along the beach on the eastern section of land, walking through the park to a bridge over to the center section (not visible here), and then through a golf course back to the beginning of the breakwater. And then it was just a long walk along it out into the middle of the lake.
There's not a huge amount to do in Ithaca, and sneaking out there late at night was an occasional activity- once you get out there its very peaceful surrounded by that much water. And one night several of us had gone out there and noticed that the sky seemed oddly green...
We didn't see dramatically defined sheets of color, but a more subdued show of green regions fading in and out, slowly spreading across a large part of the sky, and then slipping away. It was a beautiful night.
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