Well here is my experience woke at 3pm and we drove to machens beach in Cairns spread out the blow up bed for the wait until the start then the rain started.
We didn't get discouraged got the brolly out and toughened up the sky started to lighten and we could see the chances of our seeing anything look very grim still we stayed and hoped for the best I posted CLOUUUUUUUDS DISAPPEAR ON F/B.
I had my phone with google sky out keeping an eye on the progress as that cloud still hung in there
then when the eclipse had reached around 95% the CLOUUUUUUUUD DISAPPEARED and we had an unhindered view of the most incredible thing I have ever seen I think it was all the more special due to the fact that right up till the moment the cloud vanished we all thought that we would miss it.
It made the whole experience seem even more magical then it would have been if there had been no clouds at all.
