North Queensland in Australia was plunged Into Darkness on Wednesday,
but only for two minutes the region experienced a full
solar eclipse.
That's when the moon sandwiches itself between the earth and
the sun.
And they're very rare.
It's the first one Queensland scene for 1300 years and
that's why thousands turn their eyes to face the skies
above Port Douglas and the Great Barrier Reef,
in the words of one beach spectator.
Absolutely awesome.
We got the perfect clearing for it.
It was absolutely amazing. We have goosebumps everywhere that it's
really all emotion for me.
While North Queensland was treated to a full eclipse at
around 20 to 7 local time,
other parts of Australia only saw it partially.
The last full solar eclipse visible from Australia was in
2002,
and that was only seen in the nation's South.