Stormy weather

We have been having a lot of cold, wet and windy weather recently with hail and sleet showers (this is meant to be summer!).

On Saturday afternoon Simon and I went for a short walk from the end of Surf Bay towards Cape Pembroke. It was so windy that I kept being blown sideways but was very dramatic and exhilerating (except during the hail squalls).

There is a colony of rock shags nesting on a small cliff to one side of a gulch near where these pictures were taken and as the waves crashed into the gulch they were getting deluged with spray and didn't look at all happy.


The waves were crashing onto the coast sending up huge plumes of spray (not really good for the camera).


The small bays were filled with a thick white foam which covered the rocks and pebble beaches like soft white icing and was being blown inland. I suspect that alginates from the kelp along the coast get mixed with the sea water to form the foam.

This photo is looking back towards Surf Bay.