The next day, October 3, 2005. When the sky is perfectly clear it becomes obvious why annular eclipses are ultimately pointless. There is no way that you will see them in any particularly dramatic setting, or take any particularly dramatic photo of them, because everything must be experienced through the solar filter which precludes context. Ergo, there is no reason to seek out any particular place for the experience. If, for all places, there is no reason to be at that place, then there is no reason to be there. Here are astronomers and photographers setting up at our hotel to see the eclipse. I suppose there are advantages to hanging out by the pool with Westerners, if not for that scantily-clad astronomers is a deep structure oxymoron. We drove into town so we could share it with the locals. Society offers an excuse for all.