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Exmouth Eclipse
Hi all,
a few more Exmouth 'Clips photos. Taken with a Canon 6D and 400 mm f5.6 lens, 2x teleconverter, some with a B+W 1000x ND filter or Baader solar film. Unfortunately my EQ mount developed a problem and so it was back to the wobbly hand-guided camera tripod. I'll put up some more photos when I'm back home and can clean them up a bit.
Photos taken at windy Osprey Bay on the west coast of Cape Range.
A number of serious eclipse chasers chose Charles Knife Canyon, or Thomas Carter Lookout (at Charles Knife) or Shothole Canyon as the best place to see the eclipse, but everyone was turned away by the swarms of park rangers, police, Fire and Emergency Services, and Disaster Preparedness and Management, all who had road-blocks every few km along the highway and every little side road and dirt track. The people of Exmouth were very welcoming, as long as your credit card could cope with the 300 - 400% price increases of just about everything for the few days around the eclipse. Everyone was encouraged to pay $100 - $400 to sit on the rocky beach in a fenced-off area for a chicken BBQ lunch (with free solar glasses). Like my partner said, we could have gone on a 2 week ski holiday at Club Med in the French Alps for a lot less than a few days in Exmouth. Although I must admit that it probably wasn't as bad as what some German guy told me about his eclipse experience in Svalbard a few years ago, when it cost him about $1000 a night in a shared tent in -40 C and they had to take turns on guard-duty with a rifle to protect themselves from marauding polar-bears.
Despite all of that, I can't wait for the 2028 eclipse....
Susan
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