3.01.2010

Waves

Today's POTD is actually four pictures from my morning walk at the beach. We've been having some amazing surf here lately. Not all of it is due to the recent tsunami alert we were under this weekend - we were seeing the effects of it last week before the earthquake. But this morning, the waves were simply incredible!  The surfers were out and ready to take advantage of it!


It can be hard to gauge the actual size of the waves in photographs sometimes, but if you look closely at this one (you can click on it to see it bigger), you can see that there's actually a surfer riding up the wave, and he looks tiny!



Again, here you can see how small the surfer looks compared to the wave that's about to pummel him.



And finally, this picture is somewhat heartbreaking. The path you see on the right-hand side of the picture actually used to lead down to a beach that was at the bottom of the rock wall. The beach is completely gone. GONE! It remains to be seen if or when it will be built back up. I hope so, because it's one that we really enjoyed going to last year.


11 comments:

  1. Wow, those waves look powerful! And that sun looks warm! I love the sea spray that you captured in that first one especially.

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  2. Mmmmm....I LOVE watching the waves. I can almost hear those big ones. Nice work! Lots of power rolling around out there.

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  3. oh so peaceful i wish i was there too great job on capturing those beautiful waves

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  4. Great shots! We've lost a lot of the beach we love too (I'm in SD). It's so sad. I really hope they rebuild it.

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  5. Holy cow those waves are huge! I used to surf and I'd be afraid of those! Great shots,, makes me really miss the ocean.

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  6. Those are some awesome waves!!!

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  7. so pretty! i love to watch the waves

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  8. Oh, those waves are incredible. Love the ocean!

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  9. Funny! My photo, actually walking on water, looks strikingly different! (I like yours better :) )

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  10. I want to go plop myself on the beach and look at the waves for an hour or so! These are great shots!

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