Woke up late today, but still managed to catch the full-on almost-full solar eclipse from my roof, through the clouds. The 'pinhole in a business card projecting the sun-crescent onto a calendar' technique worked pretty well. It didn't get fully dark here on the Jej, but it was pretty eerie gray/Jeju United orange for a while. I noticed that the birds started singing their dawn chorus during this darkest of eclipse moments, before shutting up as the dogs barked.
On Sunday I met and birded with a Dutch birder who was on Jeju on an 'eclipse cruise' stop. An entire boatload of American and European obsessive eclipse-watchers packed this ship to the gunwales with the single-minded goal of seeing the eclipse mid-ocean. Hey, people with obsessions are usually cool, unless they're stalkers. It's un-boring.
In other news, it looks like the rainy season is finally lifting - blue skies and no humidity today. Thank Odin for that.
What else? I ate sandwiches for breakfast, lunch and dinner today. They were ham and cheese, fried chicken on pita, and tuna respectively.
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