Solar eclipse: Crowds gather at Flagler Beach

FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. — Crowds gathered in Flagler Beach to watch the Solar Eclipse.

“I’ve got my little viewer. We made it out of a beer box,” said spectator Leslie Skeans.

“I made a little filter for my digital camera so I could both view and photograph the eclipse,” said spectator Max Skeans.

The Skeanses drove more than an hour for the 91 percent view of the solar eclipse at Flagler Beach.

"I'm 66 years old. I saw one in the '60s. I saw the one in the late '70s, '79. I lived in Virginia then. Now this one. So this is my third one,” Max Skeans said.

The eclipse was a first for Devin Stickney and his ninth grade classmates. They all got safety glasses and drove up from Ormond Beach to see it.

"It just makes a big, orange circle. There's no rays left to it,” Stickney said.

Seabreeze High School gave students an excused absence for the experience.

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