very nice, thanks for posting that!
Around what time was it taken?
I was on the water between 12 and 3 but did not see it!?

i think it must have been taken between 2-4 ish. There were a bunch of guys out at the time just further towards green hills

Aorta said...

I was surfing at the pass in Byron on Sunday and a storm front came through, while it was to the south over Tallows beach i saw a spout developing in the clouds but it wasnt touching down, then all of a sudden it looked like it was (couldnt see the bottom as was behind the headland) looked crazy as, anyone else see this? and did it touch down?

Yeah it did (NOTE: these are not my photos)

awesome thanks for the link, now i can prove it to my girlfriend

Hey Smedg, was gonna call you up while i was there but there was no wind/gusty wind so i didn't bother. You live in one of the most beautiful places in the world though!

A tornado or lesser whirlwind occurring over water and resulting in a funnel-shaped whirling column of air and spray.
An intense columnar vortex (not necessarily containing a funnel-shaped cloud) of small horizontal extent, over water. Typical visible vortex diameters are of the order of 33 ft (10 m), but a few large waterspouts may exceed 330 ft (100 m) across. In the case of Florida waterspouts, only rarely does the visible funnel extend from parent cloudbase to sea surface. Like the tornado, most of the visible funnel is condensate. Therefore, the extension of the funnel cloud downward depends upon the distribution of ambient water vapor, ambient temperature, and pressure drop due to the vortex circulation strength. These vortices are most frequently observed during the warm season in the oceanic tropics and subtropics.



Waterspouts and tornadoes are qualitatively similar, differing only in certain quantitative aspects: tornadoes are usually more intense, move faster, and have longer lifetimes-especially maxi-tornadoes. Tornadoes are associated with intense, baroclinic (frontal), synoptic-scale disturbances with attendant strong vertical wind shear, while waterspouts are associated with weak, quasibarotropic disturbances (weak thermal gradients) and consequent weak vertical wind shear.



ref:www.answers.com/search?q=waterspout

Hey Aorta

Was at Main Beach doing some stand up paddling. That waterspout was awesome. It was totally different every time you looked at it. Not sure if you noticed how quickly the paragliders got back to ground when the spout started?

I quickly hopped off the water when that bit of lightning came along. Very interesting sesh!