Before and After

Imagine:

Walking along a stretch of beach. It is another ordinary day in a string of ordinary days. Something catches your eye - there is something different about the water. You squint into the distance, and you see something like this. A friend of mine who was in Penang at the time told me that what caught most people by surprise was the fact that the water suddenly receded into the sea, first - causing them to look.

And then, the wave.

Images from DigitalGlobe (Link) via BoingBoing (Link).





Images of the Sri Lankan coast taken by the QuickBird Satellite - just before the first wave struck. DigitalGlobe has made a series of these images free for distribution on their site.