PJ_in_FL wrote: ↑08 Apr 2024, 22:45
Did you make it to the lighthouse? Anxious to see what the eclipse looked like from Bonavista and the last person in North America to see the eclipse!
No need to be anxious
Gord and I shivered in the Lee of the lighthouse, away from the brutish winds, until the cabin light came on (electronic eye say "night time!") and then leaned against the wind, me to struggle along a goat-path in the dusk to stand atop the smashing waves.
Like an idiot.
It was not black-as-night, I suspect because some light diffused through the cloud layer, but ...
NationalEclipseDay_20240408_171415.jpg
Full story
here.
... and it was dead-easy to be the last person in North America to see the eclipse, because all the really smart ones were a hundred yards to the west watching the shadow skim across the foaming waves.(We could see waves breaking on Spillar's Cove several miles away).
I handed out my home-made ginger cookies to any visitors I came across; the town of Bonavista did what we in the trade call "dick-all"; Gander put on a three-day fair and show.
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As usual the best parts, for me, were not the black-disk-over-the-sun (I'm still jealous of your photo and will likely remain so), but the impact on people, and on myself, but not on the Town Council of Bonavista.
P.S. I was excited, and forgot to check the colours Red, Blue, and Green as the shadow came over us.
Cheers, Chris
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