Pouring Over the Dragon’s Back

I have been fortunate enough to watch this phenomenon several times from Nonwane, our research station in South Africa. Near the end of the day, heavy cloud cover settles above the Drakensberg while the setting sun finds narrow openings along the mountain horizon. The last light becomes pinched between cloud and mountain, breaking into stark columns of gold that spill over the ridgelines and descend toward the bushveld below. The effect rarely lasts long. Pouring Over the Dragon’s Back captures one of those fleeting evenings—and, for whatever my opinion is worth, some of the best sunsets in the world.