esperance

      Between 1940 and 1945, sixty-one German cities with a total population of
      25 millions were destroyed or devastated in a bombing campaign initiated
      by the British government. Destruction on this scale had no other purpose
      than the indiscriminate mass murder of as many German people as possible
      quite regardless of their civilian status. It led to retaliatory bombing
      resulting in 60,000 British dead and 86,000 injured.

From roughly August 2006 to May 2007 I lived in Esperance, Western Australia. It is a beautiful coastal town which happens to lie underneath the main East/West air route to and from the Eastern States.

As soon as I got there I noted the amazing aircraft contrails that filled the sky at times. These long thin lines would rapidly spread out and cover the entire sky with a thick haze that would gradually drift down and form a "haze" on the horizen. Locals assured me this was "normal". I however, begged to differ.

Here is a normal contrail...