This Sunday there will be a fabulous solar eclipse where the moon will totally block out the sun. The solar phenomena will turn the light of day dark, but will last only five minutes. There is only one island in the Pacific where one can view the solar eclipse and that is Easter Island. So it would seem that the only ones who will be able to afford to view this event are the wealthy.

So who is going to be at this event? One article states:

Usually there are around 2,000 people living in the island’s single village of Hanga Roa. But another 4,000 are expected to fly into its airport on eclipse expeditions. They are said to include Google co-founder Larry Page aboard his private jet.

The spectacle begins when the Moon’s shadow touches the Earth a few hundred miles north of New Zealand. But it only crosses Mangaia in the Cook Islands and a few deserted atolls in the South Pacific before it reaches Easter Island. After that it hit the southernmost tip of South America just as the Sun is low in the sky and about to set.

Many eclipse fans have booked trips on cruise liners which will steer them to the eclipse track. And some have even paid thousands of dollars to charter aircraft to take them above cloud-level for a view.

Hopefully it will be overcast, rain, maybe a typhoon or two will hit, and the view will be impossible to see. I know, I’m bad! LOL

I will be content to watch the event on the tube.

Comments welcome.

Source – The Christian Science Monitor