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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
This is my third total and being on mainland Australia I have chose the following options.
I am using my CGE mount for stability. Setup will be around 3 am in the morning to beat out the crowds from our location. Perhaps earlier.
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Hi Paul
I am taking an EQ6 with Canon 5D Mk11 on an FSQ-106EDX with Reducer (380mm) and will run exposure sequences with a Phottix timer. I am only trying for corona images.
I am hoping to shoot from the beach around the centre-line if possible and setup early also but with saltwater crocs up there this is a worry. Where are you hoping to shoot from Paul?
Brian Coote
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A Cairns local I know told me yesterday that a dog was taken by a croc at Kewarra Beach.
Aside from the real risk of crocs, read the article about tides on my web site.
http://joe-cali.com. Tides article is linked from the home page.
Oak beach is one of the prime candidates to be closed by the authorities on safety concerns.
It matters little where you are located up and down the coast over quite a long distance. The limb corrected duration of totality only varies by a few seconds between Smithfield & the Cairns northern beaches to the beaches north of Port Douglas.
When observing the 2002 eclipse from Cameron Corner, the legs on the pier of my equatorial mount which have a much greater surface area than any commercial tripod EQ mount wouldn't stop sinking into the sand. If you do brave the crocs, tides and crowds to sit on the beach, bring some large boards to put under the tripod legs or else you might get that sinking feeling.
For what it's worth, in 2001, I spent 2 hrs photographing Baboon's at sunrise in South Luangwa National Park all the while being stalked by a croc. Taunted a hippo to make him testy. I've stood face to face metres from grizzly bears and been charged by moose hiking in Alaska. You could say I am very comfortable being part of the food chain but I like to see them coming so I can react appropriately.
However, I wouldn't dream of sitting on a beach in the dark hoping the croc takes someone else in the crowd on the morning of the 14th.
Joe Cali