As the mercury rises and summer in the southern hemisphere descends, a spectacle unlike any other is brewing deep beneath the red Central Queensland soil.
And for a few select weeks every year staff at the Capricorn Caves perform the seemingly impossible... and harness the sun!
In times of old, the summer solstice - when the sun comes literally to a standstill in the sky - was a time for great celebration and though the times have changed, the festivities remain and the Caves plays host to one of the best.
Due to the Caves' location on the Tropic of Capricorn, the heaven's literally shine a light on one of Capricorn's biggest limestone chambers, 'The Belfry' from December to mid January.
Under a burning solstice sun, a brilliant sunbeam filters down through a vertical 14ft shaft , piercing the darkness below.
Much to the delight of the thousands that flock to the Caves each year, eager guides have indeed learned how to capture the power and intensity of this rare phenomenon, using mirrored balls and brightly coloured materials to illuminate the cave in a way rarely thought possible.
A sight that truly has to be seen to be believed!
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