[Mishmash] Fw: WHIPPED OCEAN ...SOMETHING WE'LL NEVER SEE.........AMAZING

[Robyne Kerr]

>  I experienced something like that when I was a child on a northern 
>NSW Beach, but not that large. I remember running throught this big 
>pile of foam. It stretched up the whole beach and we could get lost 
>in it.  It was sure fun we had a ball as kids.

thanks for the photos and the memories

Robyne

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>something sorta like the ocean having a huge barf.
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>          HERE'S SOMETHING WE'LL NEVER SEE.........AMAZING
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>  Suddenly the shoreline north of Sydney were transformed into the 
>Cappuccino Coast. Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby 
>buildings, including the local lifeguards' centre, in a freak 
>display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales.
>One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch a wave, 
>the next they were swallowed up in a giant bubble bath. The foam was 
>so light that they could puff it out of their hands and watch it 
>float away.
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>Boy in the bubble bath: Tom Woods, 12, emerges from the clouds of 
>foam after deciding that surfing was not an option
>It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not 
>seen at the beach for more than three decades. Scientists explain 
>that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, 
>chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed. 
>All are churned up together by powerful currents which cause the 
>water to form bubbles. These bubbles stick to each other as they are 
>carried below the surface by the current towards the shore. As a 
>wave starts to form on the surface, the motion of the water causes 
>the bubbles to swirl upwards and, massed together, they become foam.
>The foam 'surfs' towards shore until the wave 'crashes', tossing the 
>foam into the air.
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>Whitewash: The foam was so thick it came all the way up to the surf club
>'It's the same effect you get when you whip up a milk shake in a 
>blender,' explains a marine expert. 'The more powerful the swirl, 
>the more foam you create on the surface and the lighter it becomes.' 
>In this case, storms off the New South Wales Coast and further north 
>off Queensland had created a huge disturbance in the ocean, hitting 
>a stretch of water where there was a particularly high amount of the 
>substances which form into bubbles. As for 12-year-old beachgoer Tom 
>Woods, who has been surfing since he was two, riding a wave was out 
>of the question. 'Me and my mates just spent the afternoon leaping 
>about in that stuff,' he said.
>'It was quite cool to touch and it was really weird. It was like 
>clouds of air - you could hardly feel it.'
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>Children play among all the foam which was been whipped up by 
>cyclonic conditions.
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