Thats really cool and bad at the same time. The last lot of good hail we had chipped the paint on my car, I was not happy
It was good with the trough curving around to the north of us, you could feel the wind was sucking towards that thunderstorm as it picked up, I saw guys overpowered on 4.2 at the end 
but geez some people stayed out waaayy too late.
Could see it getting closer and just knew it was gonna switch off the seabreeze.
No free paint job for my car though - very disappointed 
but geez some people stayed out waaayy too late.
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Don't I know it. I was out the back at the Passage, heading out to catch another wave when all of a sudden it was completely glassy, black and scary looking. That's when you realize that the reef is much further from the beach than it seemed when you blasted out just on the edge of being overpowered! After a few minutes of drifting and repeated water starts the hail came in, along with a fierce SE. Visibility was shocking-couldn't see the island, couldn't see the shore, but at least I was moving, albeit futher away from the car due to the change in wind angle. Ended up coming in on the edge of the bay next to the Lano hotel (not the Endeavour), with a long walk back to the car dodging lightning bolts in the flooded Lancelin streets!
Not sure what's worse, being 1km off shore, the wind dropping, the hail or the lighting bolts. Great story for the pub with mates.
Not to be too critical but we all know what causes a seabreeze and it was pretty obvious what was going to happen. I watched ppl at SP for at least 15mins thinking "why the hell are they not coming in?"
Pretty dangerous.....
I did wonder if anyone was caught out there. I had just got home and was about to jump into the shower when the hail hit. Covered our back lawn. Went to the Tavern for dinner and watched the lightning and sunset fireworks, very entertaining. Street and garden were flooded for about 15 minutes until it drained away.
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Dunno which is worse....yes I do...hail on my car or hail on my boards even inside their covers!
You wouldn't catch me outside in that kind of electrical storm even if it was 10klm away.
Impressive pics Chris, what shutter speed?
Great photos of the storm
Here's a pretty ordinary one of the hail bouncing around on the back lawn.
amazing pics . thanks for new screen saver 
what happens when lightening hits the ocean ??????
how far will it travel to give you a zap ???
Luckily we got to it almost straight away but we got the firebrigade to come and douse the stump that was alight. It had hit a tree 500m from the house and run down to a stump and started a grass fire..
