I did while vacationing in Hilton Head, South Carolina in July with my family. My wife, Joyce, our 16 year-old grandson, Josh, and I were out to our 5th floor balcony early to eat breakfast prior to playing tennis. The skies were clear except for one large, dark cloud that was moving from north to south over the Atlantic Ocean. While we were eating, rain began to fall and, at about 7:30 a.m., Josh exclaimed, “Look, a tornado!” We looked east and saw what none of us had ever seen before. It was most unusual, but didn’t look exactly like the tornado we had seen in “The Wizard of Oz” or the ones in “Twister”. There was a column that dropped straight down from the cloud and reached almost to the ocean. We viewed the phenomenon with binoculars and took a short video. By viewing the video, we could see what appeared to be water swirling in a clockwise and upward direction within the down-cloud, lending credence to the theory that it was, in fact, a waterspout. As we watched, the rain began to come down harder and the waterspout began to slowly rise or to be sucked up into the main cloud. Within about 10 minutes, it had been reabsorbed and was gone from our view. We looked up “waterspout” on the Internet and saw photos and a video which showed what we had viewed in real time and confirmed that our sighting was, in fact, a waterspout. Apparently, if it had been over land, it would have been a tornado. On the Internet, a woman in the video said that, in her 40 years of sailing, she had never before seen a waterspout. Although we didn’t get to play tennis that morning, the waterspout made getting up early most worthwhile and a vacation memory that we won’t soon forget. And now, you know the difference too.