Total Solar Eclipse

Africa, June 2001

On June 16th, 2001, I left the US with my good friend Dave P. to go to Africa for the very first time and see my first total solar eclipse.

It was the trip of a lifetime.

Roll 1 June 17 through June 19th (Amsterdam, Zambia, Zimbabwe)

Roll 2 June 19th and 20th (Zimbabwe)

Roll 3 June 20th and 21st (Zimbabwe)

The Eclipse June 21st (other people's photos)

Roll 4 June 21st and 22nd (Zimbabwe, Zambia)

Roll 5 June 23rd and 24th (Nairobi, Amsterdam, Greenland from the plane)

Kefias Shumba, Demining Specialist

Stuff from my Journal

I understand now why there are so many people, from all over the world, who spend so much time and money going to eclipse after eclipse after eclipse.

"Nothing on Earth can compare with the spectacle of a total
eclipse of the Sun.

NOTHING!"
- Fred Espenak, on the Solar Eclipse Mailing List

Other Sites of Interest

At the bottom of this page is a great list of links to other eclipse reports.

a link to an animated satellite photo of the moon's shadow racing across africa.

where's the next eclipse?

eclipse chasers' web ring