I'm in Cairns!

[ourkind]

:cool:

[MortonH]

Can you see the sun???

[ourkind]

Actually no, there's cloud cover as far as the eye can see :shrug:

Will need to keep fingers crossed!

[Larryp]

Good luck with the weather, Carlos, and to all other amateurs up there

[UK1]

:welcome:

[ourkind]

Thanks Laurie and Rob :)

What a day it's been, we've had cloud rain clear sky cloud rain again and now it's trying to clear up. Funny enough you welcome the rain because its so humid that the rain drops cool you down.

[multiweb]

Is that the cloooud disappeeear dance I'm seeing? Keep going mate! :lol: :thumbsup:

[icytailmark]

cool its suppose to be raining on wednesday :(

[ourkind]

Here's a live shot a few moments ago ... its raining and the sky's awash with what I think are fruit bats making their way to the hill tops for the evening, quite a spectacle to see (not properly captured in my image though).

[Larryp]

That sky doesn't look good Carlos. Hope it clears up for everyone.

[supernova1965]

Me tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[loki78]

I'm in Mackay at the moment, heading up to Cairns tomorrow. Is the entire states highway system undergoing roadworks at the same time?

/facepalm

[supernova1965]

Yep infact you have a heap more to come we drove from Mackay on Sunday and there are heaps of works sorry to give you the bad news

[rowena]

YES! Expect delays at proserpine, lots more road works between mackay and townsville...

also road works between ingham and cardwell and about 50k south of cairns aswell...

So add at least 2-3 hours from mackay to get to cairns!.... sorry for the bad news. I just travelled up to cairns from townsville today!

[doppler]

Drove up from Mackay today and yes roadworks all along the Bruce Highway, but the traffic was light and flowing pretty well. Took about 9 hours driving time. ps we left at 6.00am and a lot of traffic controllers near Mackay were still setting up for the day.

[loki78]

The worst of it was between about north of Gympie and south of rockhampton, that just added hours to the trip... I will leave early tomorrow morning though and see how I go, at least the long parts of the journey are done. Sydney -> Bris and Bris -> Mackay.

[Poita]

Fantastic, enjoy the cruise!

Nice and clear and sunny here in Mudgee, hope it changes to the same up there!

[ourkind]

Cheers Pete! Im still getting rained on in central Cairns. The sun made a short encore a few hours ago but that was it.

To the guys making that last long leg of a drive do it so safely and no rush.

[asimov]

I'm in Bundaberg & while I won't see totality from here, I'm not willing to chance missing it in far north cloudy Cairns QLD! Good luck to all that are there though. Fingers N' toes crossed!

[loki78]

Ok I got here OK... I am wondering what the unemployment will go up to once all these road works are finished.

But I'm here...

[ourkind]

I see some blue sky over yonder, there's still some hope!

[noswonky]

I'm in Cairns too. The sun is peeking through occasionally this afternoon. I got just enough to test the filters on an SLR and binoculars.

[ourkind]

here it is ...

[ourkind]

Clear skies out in the ocean just watching a stunning sunrise right now. Good luck to all you terrestrial fellows.

[supernova1965]

cloud cleared just before totality and stayed away it was awesome to see it