[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

I've got a 6000 word essay on my trip to Ceduna lying around....

I've seen several partial eclipses, can't remember them all.

I saw an annular that passed over Perth just after sunrise in 1991.
I saw the 1999 annular eclipse that passed over Greenough, just south of Geraldton.

And I made it to Ceduna in 2002. That was just mindblowing, there are so many things about totality that just can't be easily described with words. I remember when I first looked up at the eclipsed sun and the corona that I finally understood why people would be so terribly afraid of such a thing. It's like being transported to another world, as it is neither night or day and the animal instinct in you mind starts to tell you it's not natural. But the diamond ring at the end was breathtakingly stunning. You just have to see at least one total eclipse in your life. You'll soon find out why eclipse chasers will head to the ends of the earth to see one!