Photographer whips out his camera for rare snaps of huge frothy seas at Pearl Beach

• Denice Barnes
• Central Coast Express
• March 05, 2013 12:07PM

Photographer Michael Hruby snapped local kids playing in sea foam washed up on the northern end of Pearl Beach on Saturday.

PROFESSIONAL photographer Michael Hruby has taken landscape and surfing photographs across the coast for 20 years and says he has never seen anything like the scenes he captured at Pearl Beach on Saturday.

With big swells, Hruby, of Green Point, decided Pearl Beach might be worth a visit.
"I thought Pearl Beach would be good because it's protected from the southerlies," he said.
"I couldn't believe what I saw, I have never seen anything like it on the Central Coast."
Masses of sea foam had washed up along the northern end of the beach.
Although considered a mysterious phenomenon by some, Hruby explained it was entirely natural.
"It means it's a healthy ocean, and only happens when the wind and swell mix up the organic matter and turns it to foam," he said.
"Kids were having the time of their lives in the foam."