WARNING: This post contains an overabundance of images … if you find images distasteful this post may cause you some distress … I suggest you avert your eyes … NOW!
It was a wild and windy weekend in these parts.
I mean really, really windy. Not washing flapping gently in the breeze windy … more "Look out Aunt Em … there goes the house".
The telly was warning us about gale force winds and dangerous surf … so we did what most of the population of the NSW Central Coast did … we went to the beach … in order to stand on the edge of a cliff!
Now being the crazy daredevil that I am I wanted to take some photos of said gale force wind and treacherous surf … as did most of the population of the NSW Central Coast.
Okay … I may be exaggerating a little … but there WERE a few of us … and if I had moved 20 metres to the left I may have been a little jostled.
Now of course it isn't really possible to photograph the wind … but I did do my best to capture a few shots of her side effects. Definitely no swimming recommended today.
Can you feel the salty spray?
Of course I couldn't be that close to the beach and not snap a few requisite lighthouse shots … just cause I like a good … or bad ... lighthouse shot … and I know you do too
Sue.
Sunday was much calmer … by which I mean it was only blowing a strong gale and no longer a cyclonic hurricane. The swimmers and surfers welcomed the improved weather conditions and were back out in force … crazy fools. But it did give me the opportunity to snap a few of them in their natural habitat.
Taking these photographs was great fun … and for about 30 seconds I thought I might become a marine photographer … until I remembered how I can't be bothered getting wet!
But no collection of surfing shots would be complete without the "UH-OH" File … which should finish off this post quite nicely.
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"Hope no one's watching" |
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"Glug!" |
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"Someone let me out!" |
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"This wasn't in the plan" |
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"Who left that there?" |
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"I want my Mummy!" |
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"Oh SH!T!" |
"I could not help concluding this man had the most supreme pleasure while he was driven so fast and so smoothly by the sea" - Captain James Cook.