Man, that was INCREDIBLE!!!
JJust barely enough light to see the ground around you - I wouldn’t have tried to walk on this rocky ground during totality. And to see the corona was well worth the trip, believe me! Temperature dropped maybe 5 degrees in this mountain air and the fish started jumping all over the lake!!!(???). Everything getting back to normal now. I’ll tell you — seeing the corona surrounding the black disk was like being on another planet — WOW.
I’m VERY envious.
Odd about the fish——I wonder why they did that.
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It was a long wait and build up, as even the 70-80% coverage barely seemed to affect the light on the ground.
But those last few minutes, and then totality truly was something that has to be seen to be fully appreciated.
The surrounding darkness all around, with the corona bursting out from the darkened moon, and then the diamond ring effect. Indeed, it was something special!
Apparently the dolphins near the CA coast swam to the surface five minutes before the eclipse, then went back into the ocean five minutes after (reported on Fox). Pretty amazing!