Thousands of dedicated eclipse chasers are set to arrive in Western Australia in less than a month to catch the best view of the 'magnificent event in the sky'.
"I've been on mountain tops, I've been in deserts, I've been in a boat in the middle of the ocean, 800 miles west of the Galapagos Islands," she said."There are very limited options in Australia; if you're wanting to see this eclipse on land, you really just have to go to that very small area.""It used to be quite a very niche area and sometimes people would just see you as quite geeky, and they didn't really get it," she said.
She said while most people will enjoy seeing a total solar eclipse not everyone will become an eclipse chaser."I'm just curious about why some people, like me, will stop anything and everything to get into the path [of totality], whereas others will enjoy it and think it's amazing and special, but they don't have that same level of drive and determination.
"There will be a proportion of people who are coming to see this eclipse in April who will then want to see the next one, and the next one and the next one, and then that's the chaser community."Sally Cunningham and her husband Andy didn't consider taking in the eclipse when they started their caravan trip across to Exmouth from Victoria.
"Initially, it wasn't a big thing, because we were just really keen to catch up with our friend," Ms Cunningham said.Sally Cunningham and her husband Andy are making their way across from Victoria to Exmouth."We're just going along and meeting lots of new people," she said. "We found everyone's been particularly friendly, and very interested when we tell them that we're going up for the eclipse."
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