Foam on Pearl Beach

Green Point professional photographer Mr Michael Hruby visited Pearl Beach on Saturday, March 2, in the hope of capturing some worthwhile images of the large swells.

"I thought Pearl Beach would be good because it's protected from the southerlies," said Mr Hruby.

"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."

Mr Hruby has taken landscape and surfing photographs across the coast for 20 years and said he has never seen anything like the scenes he captured at Pearl Beach.

Email, 12 Mr 2013

Michael Hruby, Green Point