Weird light seen from Taieri Beach, Otago

Anyone know what this is?
Anyone know what this is?

I was looking out towards the Otago Peninsula from Taieri Beach at 9pm last night when I saw what appeared to be a light source from over the horizon.

Chinese garden shines!

The people's advocate in tough economic times.

It's our new "Third island". Chinese garden shining like a diamond as it's towed towards the harbour by one of the Otago Harbour board tug boats.

Originally we planned on constructing the island, and the new garden ourselves, but it was substantially cheaper to buy it already built up from China, and tow it back to New Zealand.

You can tell by the rays beaming from it, that itll be a true star for the Dunedin City Council, (much like our first Chinese garden).

Makes you think doesn't it.

Google Radiation Cloud

Google Radiation Cloud Dunedin

Sun rays

Hi there, the light you saw was sun rays coming from the setting sun behind you. There would have been a hole in a cloud letting beams of sunlight through, which are then lighting up particles in the atmosphere. The reason the light extends so far is because the sun would have been quite low in the sky - it probably turned orange and red shortly after this.

This may help you Stu