The Atlantic Ocean is 1035 miles away, the Pacific Ocean is 1300 miles away, the nearest salt water is the Gulf of Mexico, 150 miles away.
Total Solar Eclipse of 1994 Nov 03 (La Lava, BOLIVIA) 1  An assortment of Fred Espenak's photographs of eclipses from 1990 through 1994 are featured on this page. The Moon's shadow took Espenak to such diverse places as Finland, Mexico, and Bolivia, Toledo (Ohio). In recent years, he has begun to experiment with image enhancement techniques through computer processing.
Composite image of a 1999 total solar eclipse by Fred Espenak. Read his article on the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse, first one visible from contiguous North America since 1979. Bottom line: Dates of solar and lunar eclipses in 2016, and a preview of the great American eclipse of 2017.