And forever before me gleams,
The shining city of song,
In the beautiful land of dreams.
But when I would enter the gate
Of that golden atmosphere,
It is gone, and I wonder and wait
For the vision to reappear.
Fata Morgana by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You saw a Fata Morgana
"Such mirages are caused by a temperature inversion, where cold dense air is trapped next to the ground under a layer of warmer air. A certain shape of temperature inversion will mean that light near the ground will be refracted in such a way that it travels in a curved path around the globe."
got info from here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana and here
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s818193.htm thats cool Scott nice one
Cheers
kearn