whitewater explosion,

Explosion of whitewater

The man had climbed over protective bars seve ral feet further back from the edge in his pursuit of the ultimate wake-up call and was fortunate to survive as the area was engulfed by water. Right across New South Wales, coastline was battered by similar waves ramped up by 50mph winds. Sydney Harbour was turned into a no-go zone for ferries after the Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued warnings of impending gales for most of the coast.

Specialist marine forecasting and surf camera service Coastalwatch said a rare weather event and the closeness of the low pressure system was the reason for the ocean’s violence. pic 3 Water/ ‘We had something called ‘captured fetch’ happen and it’s pretty rare here,’ chief forecaster Ben McCartney said. Waves are created when wind blows over the a certain area of the seas. This is called the fetch. A ‘captured fetch’ happens when a storm moves in the same direction of a fetch so that the wind keeps pushing the same waves following them. We’ve all splashed water over our face in a bid to wake up in the morning. But one Australian man has taken it to the extreme.Standing perilously close to the edge of a rock face, the fearless individual stood head-on with Mother Nature as she threw giant whitewater waves over Ben Buckler headland North Bondi Beach in Sydney yesterday.

Hopetoun Falls, Australia

Located five kilometres east of Beech Forest, Victoria, Australia Hopetoun Falls.The falls have a large set of well-built and maintained stairs that lead down a natural patio to a villu patafo very close to the foot of the waterfall. Hopetoun Falls plunges 30 m in a rectangular shape.