Ok…who saw it?  Who burned their eyes out looking directly at it?  Who was smart and bought the glasses?  Who was cheap and just wore 5 pairs of sun glasses?  Who used alternative methods to look at it?   Who couldn’t care less and slept thru it?

We were supposed to have 83% coverage so we waited in anticipation for August 21st to arrive and the 100 year event of the total eclipse

When the time arrived, we went out by the pool, thinking that would be the best spot.  Fuddy duddy old Gary wouldn’t let me look up at all to figure out where the sun was so these are some shots I got by luck 

Pretty nice shots huh?  Ok, ok…I pirated those pictures from various places on the web.   Here is what I got

That is our roof in the lower left hand corner

That one looks like you can see stars or something but I really think my lens is dirty

This one I zoomed in thru a palm tree. Kind of cool

Of course, Gary did it the proper way.  He used the binoculars to let the sun shine thru the lens on to a piece of paper

Infamous binoculars, courtesy of West Marine 🙂

1st one

and a few minutes later

2nd one

It got somewhat darker while we were out, but not much.  We did notice how much cooler it was.  But to be honest, if you can’t look directly at the eclipse to see what’s happening, what’s the point?  After a few minutes we decided to hell with the eclipse, let’s go have a drink

Cheers!