frank'sYORKSHIRE WALKS
My Walking Diary
These Diary pages are just a few notes and pictures of the routes I walk. I hope that they give you some ideas for walks of your own and if you need more details of a particular route you can use the route request form to contact me
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Solar
Eclipse, Saturday 30 May 2003
Progress of the eclipse from 4.54am to 5.25am
The eclipse is almost over |
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This
morning the alarm went off at 2.40am and at 3.10 a family party
of half a dozen of us set off for Scarborough. As we drove through
Malton the sky seemed to be quite light and we were getting worried
that we had got the times wrong. We arrived on the front in Scarborough
at around 4.15am and it was hard to find a parking spot. We found
a place to watch from on the south cliff and there was already
a group of a couple of dozen people and many other similar groups
all along the sea front. From our vantage point we could see people
strung out all around the south bay. Several small boats put out
from the harbour and moored in the bay and at about 4.50am there
was the first tiny sliver of red light as the eclipsed sun began
to show over the horizon through the morning mist. What a amazing
sight! The red light gradually shaped into a crescent that grew
slowly wider until at about 5.30am the eclipse was over completely
and it looked as though we were in for a fine warm sunny day.
Anyone waking up at a normal breakfast time would never know what
a marvellous sight they had missed. After a quick picnic breakfat
on the sea front we drove home and heard a dramatic report of
the eclipse on Radio York.
