Photos And Videos: Sea Foam Blankets Eastern Australia’s Sunshine And Gold Coasts

The extreme weather has provided some spectacular images on the Sunshine Coast. (Yahoo News)

Australia’s Sunshine and Gold coasts were hit so hard by the foam that residents and tourists were asked to cancel all non-essential travel.

Yahoo News reported that:

“Tourists, residents and emergency services were left bemused by the huge swathes of foam which were whipped up by high winds and then thrown onto land in eastern Australia.”

According to the Griffith University Centre for Coastal Management, the sea foam was formed when powerful waves forced air into the water.

It was reported that the foam reached three metres high at its peak!

A YouTube video by Mick Bell shows a car unexpectedly drive out from the sea foam and almost nearly hit two some police officers.

(Please click the photos for larger images)

A man walks through ocean foam in Snapper Rocks as Queensland experiences severe rains and flooding from Tropical Cyclone Oswald on January 28, 2013 in Gold Coast, Australia. Hundreds have been evacuated from the towns of Gladstone and Bunderberg while the rest of Queensland braces for more flooding. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

A man walks through ocean foam in Snapper Rocks as Queensland experiences severe rains and flooding from Tropical Cyclone Oswald on January 28, 2013 in Gold Coast, Australia. Hundreds have been evacuated from the towns of Gladstone and Bunderberg while the rest of Queensland braces for more flooding. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

Children play with ocean foam in Burleigh Heads as Queensland experiences severe rains and flooding from Tropical Cyclone Oswald on January 28, 2013 in Gold Coast, Australia. Hundreds have been evacuated from the towns of Gladstone and Bunderberg while the rest of Queensland braces for more flooding. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

Ocean foam surge in Snapper Rocks as Queensland experiences severe rains and flooding from Tropical Cyclone Oswald on January 28, 2013 in Gold Coast, Australia. Hundreds have been evacuated from the towns of Gladstone and Bunderberg while the rest of Queensland braces for more flooding. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

Please click below for a wonderful video from itnnews:

 

Foam fills Australian town by itnnews

On Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012 sea foam blown onto Jeanette’s Pier in Nags Head, North Carolina, U.S.A. as wind and rain from Hurricane Sandy moved into the area – please click here for the photos.