Only a Dust Devil
A few years ago whilst fishing a small private lake just a few miles outside of Warwick sometime towards the end of summer I encountered a Dust Devil. The weather was slightly overcase, warmish and a bit sticky and when glancing up froim the lake surface I noticed a bluring at the end of the lake and after a bit of a squint I realised this was a dust devil heading down the lake edge in my general direction. The funnel of air was filled with small twigs, water sprey, leaves and other small bits of spinning stuff all contributing to a general light brown cast and the top seemed about level with the bending and swaying tops of the bankside trees. Was I worred?, not just a bit spellbound by the approaching funnel of rising air, the sudden chill and the growing waves on the now choppy lake surface. Before the twisting serpentine like spout reached my bit of the shore it zoomed off through the woods with a "woosh"and was never seen again.