BURLINGTON — In the aftermath of the totality of the eclipse on Monday afternoon, most viewers on the Burlington waterfront departed quickly. But some lingered, awestruck, in the returning sunlight.
“It was absolutely incredible,” said Waterbury resident Mike Timbers, 66. “It was one of the most beautiful sights I’ve seen in my lifetime.”
Bettina Haskell, 60, also of Waterbury, said that it looked like “a sunset or a sunrise on each side.”
“And to see stars?” she said. “And the birds?”
Ben Frechette, 34, and Ana Weiss, 33, of Boston, said they had made a last-minute decision to come to Burlington to see the totality.
“Everybody was like you gotta do it, you gotta do it,” Frechette said. “I wasn’t sure until we saw totality. And then I was like, holy crap. This is like nothing I’ve ever seen.”
“It was crazy,” Weiss said. “It was so, like, eerie.”
“Looking up at where the sun usually is and seeing, like, a hole in the sky, is …” Frechette said.
“So weird,” Weiss put in.
“It kind of makes you understand why like, you know, like ancient civilizations saw that and they were like, ‘Oh, the world’s ending,’” Frechette said.
