Beach Foam

The amazing weather we endured over the past few days with over 100km/h winds, exaggerated king tides and unprecedented rainfall left the beaches in a state of debris and erosion. The winds also whipped up quite a bubble bath of sea foam.

Monster Storm

This shot is taken from Cabarita headland. It looked amazing in real life. An almost living, moving surging mass.

Electric Storm

Sometimes I love the awesome power of nature. This truly amazing electric storm passed through Cabarita last night. Natures fireworks in full glory. It was some of the most spectacular lightning I have ever seen. Flashes every few seconds, some forks filling my view of the sky and many seemed to be earthing themselves. Again I was too late to get out there with my camera and actually a bit apprehensive to go up on the headland for fear of being fried. It was seriously that full on. This photo (a 10 second time exposure) was taken in the 5-10 minutes I had before I got hammered by violent wind then rain and mini hail stones. Clearly armageddon was upon us. Shame I couldn't capture the really good forked spider web strikes on camera. Incredibly the whole storm blew by and had gone past us up the coast in about half an hour leaving relative calm and nearly clear sky. Cool.

Caba Sunset

Amazing days end over Cabarita. No waves but glorious rays. Yes it's the same day. One looking west one looking north, I actually missed the best of it by about 15mins, it was lit up with some unusual full sky silver linings.
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