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A spray from Oma

There were some spectacular scenes along the Clarence Coast over the weekend, as a result of a large swell generated by the south western flank of Cyclone Oma.

At Turners Beach, Yamba, hundreds of people watched the waves smash into the rocks and spill over into the area that was once a quarry.

Seemingly protected by the rocks that towered above him, Jett Sewell, from Grafton, said he wanted to “just to look up at the waves and get wet”.

So it came as a bit of a shock when a large wave smashed into the foreshore and cascaded over the rocks towards him.

He said that his experience would remain in his “memory for a long time”.

“I thought I was going to get washed down,” he said.

Jett’s father, Jason, said he was “a bit shocked when the big wave came over”.

“I thought it was going to hit us with a lot more force than it did,” he said.

“It was breathtaking to see how big the spray was that came off the rocks.”

A video animation of Jett and Jason’s experience can be viewed on the Independent’s Facebook page.