Wild Weather - Sydney - Waterspout

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Wild Weather - Sydney - Waterspout

Postby Killakoala on Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:26 pm

Taken about 150klms off the coast of NSW in the Tasman Sea yesterday (15 Aug).

A very large waterspout thinned out and became a vigorous and agile thin waterspout as shown below in the pic i took. There was a very large thunderstorm above it.

We headed the ship closer to it but it fizzled out before we got much closer than i got in the shot.

Colour to show what it looked like and B&W in an effort to get a bit more contrast out of it. The distance and darkness contributed to make photographing a 'cool' image impossible. This is the best i got.

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Postby sheepie on Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:47 pm

Ahhh - seems you're slowly finding your way home!

Nice timing to capture this - I'm amazed by these things.
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Postby Killakoala on Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:17 pm

sheepie wrote:Ahhh - seems you're slowly finding your way home!

Nice timing to capture this - I'm amazed by these things.


Yep, back in Sydney now. :( I was enjoying the summer sunshine, 'up north.' I'm not here for long though before i go somewhere else.

I've seen a few waterspouts over the years but this is the first i have been able to photograph. In fact, when i was living in Hervey Bay, QLD, I was there when a waterspout made landfall and slowly made it's way through the council caravan park before losing it's energy and collapsing in a wall of water. It made a mess of the park and flooded the main road too.

They are much more common than tornados in the Australia area. Well, i assume they are as i've only seen one tornado and several waterspouts over here.
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Postby stormygirl on Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:23 pm

Great image Steve! It's a pity you couldn't get closer to it, but you've done well anyway! I'd love to be in close proximity to a water spout....with camera handy of course! ;)
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