A regular reader of my blog, Lisa from California, was kind enough to send me a picture she took while vacationing recently on Grand Cayman.  An I must say, what a picture it is!  WOW

The picture was taken from Seven Mile beach on August 5th, just after lunch time.

Now these things are definitely not rare ; I have seen a few myself.  However, this one seems much larger that the ones I have seen.  I am guessing this is a mile or so off shore, so its a big one.

I had to do some reading about these things ; actually an interesting phenomenon. They are generally much weaker than land based tornadoes and do not suck up any water.   Here is the Wiki for those interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterspout

There are also a few video’s of this on Youtube.  Impressive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUkpVi9yRGs

More posts in the next few days …