Perseverance pays off. Awesome shots. Well done Phil.
Glad you got a look. If it was a weekend with that forecast I would have done the eight or so hour drive to somewhere in the west of Vic too, but work sadly got in the way. There was a glimmer of hope for a small break in the clouds here when just as the eclipse was starting the Sun actually came out and the clouds appeared to be breaking up a little but I was still at work at that time and by the time I got home there was a massive wall of black cloud covering the western horizon. At the time of sunset it was raining.