This looks fun! In a rare natural event, the Pacific ocean on the coast of Australia near Sydney, has turned into what looks to be a huge 30-mile bubble bath!
Dubbed by locals as the “Cappuccino Coast“, the ocean foam (or bubbles) are a result of impurities in the ocean “such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed”.
“It’s the same effect you get when you whip up a milk shake in a blender,” explains a marine expert.
“The more powerful the swirl, the more foam you create on the surface and the lighter it becomes.”
In this case, storms off the New South Wales Coast and further north off Queensland had created a huge disturbance in the ocean, hitting a stretch of water where there was a particularly high amount of the substances which form into bubbles.
As for 12-year-old beachgoer Tom Woods, who has been surfing since he was two, riding a wave was out of the question.
“Me and my mates just spent the afternoon leaping about in that stuff,” he said.
“It was quite cool to touch and it was really weird. It was like clouds of air – you could hardly feel it.”
Oh how I wish I was on that beach right now!
I will have a foam party some day. Some day.
That looks just a little gross…
At my elementary school they had this giant foam thing like that. It felt like you were just moving through nothing. But it was still awesome.
I wonder if you can Breath if you sink deep into it.
Looks dangerous where it is Deep. Looks fun too.
Dubbed by locals as the cappuccino coast? I wasn’t aware that the UK’s Daily Mail was Sydney’s local paper.
RE: Daniel
I’m not quite sure you understood the article. I don’t think the fact that the UK Daily Mail is reporting this story matters — it’s just saying that some of the local folks in Sydney have called it the “Cappuccino Coast”.
That stuff is a really good bath. The minerals and salts in it from the vegetation and sea are really good for your skin!
RE: Scribbles
heh, I didn’t even think about that! Good point!
Um, by the way, I think you’ll find that it is the Tasman Sea, too… not the Pacific.
Um, by the way Scribbles, I think you’ll find that the Tasman Sea is in fact part of the Pacific Ocean. So while you are partly correct, it’s the Pacific as well.
I like it. Best thing about last weeks’ storm.
The Tasman sea is a tract of water in the Pacific Ocean isn’t it?
Here it is Link. I hope I got the html right :)
“Me and my mates just spent the afternoon leaping about in that stuff,†he said…. and “that stuff” just happens to be “a result of impurities in the ocean “such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed.— I’m sure it’s good for your skin, weird things tend to be good for your skin, but I’m not sure I’d go play in a a foam bath made up of dead fish blended and ground up.
they’ll prob get cancer from it five yrs down the track :)
hahaha Cancer lol
on another news fact, the whale ejaculate gallons of semen during mating…. perhaps this is the cause of the froth. ;-P
That’s one huge bubble bath!
hee hee!
i would love to mess around in that!
but it does seem gross that theres dead fish in there.
i want to go there!
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Great photo. It isn’t from waste products at all. I have a photo very similar from back when I was a little kids many many years ago. It is when we have flood/storm waters and the huge amount of fresh water gets flushed into the ocean really quickly. The story from the uk reads like the kids are playing in almost sewage and I have never heard it called cappuccino before.
Scribbles wtf?? It’s not the Tasman sea at all. It’s the Pacific ocean. Look at a map.
Also I wouldn’t go in that foam, doesn’t look too healthy lol, when storm water gets flushed into the sea, you’re kidding yourself if you think it’s clean.