You can read more about the eclipse at timeanddate.com; it was visible from Australia, Africa, Europe, Asia, and South America, but not North America. As the site notes, "Totality will last for 103 minutes, making it the longest eclipse of the 21st century." Did anyone see it beside Jacques?
More pics of my wild friends. First off my cat Boo checks out Speck; the cats have lots of respect for the wild critters. There are two skunk kits but they don't come to the house so no pics of them as yet.
Next is Rackets with one of her kits.
Third, there is one kit that just loves hiding under the stepstool and sneaking food from the dish.
They really are very plush!
Nothing like a nap after a big meal.
Like cats, raccoons seem to really be interested in feet.
They also love paw play.
Skunks are a bit more cautious.
JAC: I'm not sure I would have done this, but all went well.
Here I am with one of the kits, I'm not making faces just talking to it to keep it calm. They were less friendly last week but I'm putting that down to the heat wave.
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No joy seeing the sky, let alone the moon. The weather just had to pick yesterday to break, hey ho, at least the lightning was impressive and the downpour may convert a brown lawn back to green-ish.
Why, I think they are not so rare – not as rare as solar eclipses anyway.
I think Robert is operating a wild life preserve. Nice photos.
I put a link to sciencedaily or something like that that has some good eclipse pics and videos, including from the space station.
The eclipse was visible in NZ too, from around 8 am, but it was cloudy where I live.