Seems like it will be visible along the whole East Coast for about 45 minutes after sunrise. http://www.space.com/23414-dramatic-solar-eclipse-east-coast-sunday.html Here's what it'll look like just after sunrise: Never surfed with welder's goggles before... http://www.space.com/15614-sun-observing-safety-tips-infographic.html
I very rarely surf at sunrise, but when I do....Thanks for the heads up bro. I was actually planning on a DP session Sunday, since I have to help my wife set up a booth at the local green market pre dawn. She sells hot pepper jelly, chutneys, spice rubs, chili powders, etc. "The Red Hot Shelly Pepper". is the name. Any way, I would have gone blind. Although with daylight savings being rescinded, it might be a non issue. Forewarned is forearmed. I will have my white helmet, full welders apparel, and a periscopic umbrella on hand.
I'll be out there. Thanks for the warning, maybe I'll wait and bring a camera or just burn my retinas out.
Yes... absolutely stunning light show yesterday. Actually got in a solo sesh at a beach I've not surfed in several months...late afternoon till dark... with the sky lit up blazing red. In between the glowing clouds was the brightest blue imaginable. Just one of those dumb luck things... right place, right time. The other day, for some reason, knowing there were no waves, I suddenly got the urge to check the surf. Just spontaneously... pulled over and climbed up the seawall. At least 80-100 dolphins cruising south just off the beach. Must have been a quarter mile long pod... just breaching and diving. Amazing.... Sometimes you just gotta go with your gut...
I was watching the Monmouth beach cam as the sun went down. Looked like so much fun. I saw some drama as three guys jumped in just as a 5 wave set came and got rejected and tumbled back to the beach. They were between the jetties just south of the camera and there weren't as many easy paths to the line up as there were in front of the camera. As the camera panned back and forth it looked like one guy somehow got hurt; he hobbled out of the surf and face planted into the sand and laid there for a while.
It was surprisingly heavy. Overhead sets would be kinda fat and slopey on the takeoff, but then bowl up really thick and dump. Saw a bunch of waves spit... so you know it had some power. Not the greatest form, but the occasional wave would line up really well from the outside all the way to the beach. A couple times it was two waves and I was down the beach... having to get out and walk back up. This morning looked kinda crappy... went for a sail/fished instead. Maybe get another sunset session in later...
Last nigh was surprisingly chunky before dark. Went to Long Island today. Clean and overhead for DP. The rest of the day was clean and head high. Surfed 3 times and had good waves all 3...
Hybrid eclipse. On average in history, only happens once per 8.8 years. However, it's only scheduled to happen 7 times in this century since it occurs in cycles. I'm flying out at sunrise in the AM so I could witness this but it's supposed to be raining. Figures.
I hit up LB. Fun to be had all day. The swell lost it's punch during what was an otherwise great sunset. Looks like the whole coast scored today. Out in the lineup, a guy was telling me how much better it was there than at another spot further east, where someone broke his ankle in the water, and "the bone came out of his skin." Dude said 'it was heavy man. it was heavy'.
Funny. I checked east and LB was better... Sunset was sick!! It was actually very punchy where I was at. Great day start to finish
Eclipse Here too, but then there was a moment when they broke up for a few seconds. Glad I hung around and didn't give up hope. still some wave energy out there if you're hungry; but deep with the high tide. Find a bar that's working before the NNW get on it. Rest In Peace Buttons K. Ryan
Great pics Ryan, thanks for posting. This hybrid solar eclipse is the rarest kind as Emass wrote, although what the East Coast saw (or didn't see) was only the partial eclipse part. The total eclipse part is happening over Africa and some guy is camped out in Kenya providing a live feed when the eclipse reaches him in less than 30 minutes. It's not exactly Danny Boyle's Sunshine, but here's the feed: http://www.space.com/19195-night-sky-planets-asteroids-webcasts.html The surf is looking better and better up here in NY as the tide drops and the buoy is reading 5.2'@10s, but this is a rare event so if you're reading this before it happens watch it on your phone or laptop before you hit the water. To get an idea of the difference, compare Ryan's partial eclipse pics with this: That would be a wild thing to experience in person. The average time a person would need to wait to see two total eclipses in the same spot on Earth is 360 years. For some locations it's upwards of 1,500 years. Not only that, but because the Moon is moving away from the Earth at 1.5 inches a year, total solar eclipses are not a permanent thing. So this is truly a rarity that the Moon's disk exactly covers up the sun, and for this guy broadcasting from Kenya it turns out that the Earth's bulge at the equator puts him at just the right distance so the moon covers the sun. There's never more than one total solar eclipse per year, and next year has none, the one in 2015 occurs over the North Atlantic Ocean, 2016 over the Pacific Ocean and part of Indonesia, but in 2017 the U.S. lucks out. Mark your calendar Ryan because that's a once in a lifetime event and we need photos. The last time a total eclipse traversed the U.S. coast to coast was 1918. http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017
Chilly out here on the island...got to see it between the clouds, no gear so i could only look for a few seconds and look away and repeat but it sure was cool to see.. then the sets came in and it was fun for a few hours.
