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Hi Errol,
As Liz says the eye with eclipse glasses is a good way to watch a solar eclipse. Having said that I will certainly be taking my refractor with Hydrogen Alpha filter. Hydrogen alpha enables you to see the textured details of the solar surface, prominences, filaments etc. They are expensive and the PST is the cheapest version probably. The virtue is that the sun is a great star to watch in hydrogen alpha as it always changes, even throughout the day. But you couldn't use the PST for any other observing. The bonus this year is that in addition to an eclipse, you get a transit of Venus on June 6th.
The other option is an ordinary scope useful for observing with white light filter. You get to see solar disc and sunspots and would see the transit as a shadow moving across the disc.
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