Drove down to the beach yesterday afternoon – to watch the surf. The waves were so high that they were crashing over the sea wall. Huge breakers crashing, the entire ocean appeared to be a-foaming. Normally you see at least some blue water, even on a choppy day … but yesterday, the entire ocean seemed to be white. Then a wave would rise up, slate-grey, thick, and crash into white foam, then another wave, then another wave, there was no let up. The waves had to be 20 feet high – crashing far out and then barreling in and smashing up and over the sea wall. Also the wind was so high that it picked the foam up off the top of these waves and catapulted it through the air. And so the windy air was filled wtih swirling bits of white – sea-foam -only it looked like a ticker-tape parade. “What is all that white stuff in the air???” It was the foam off the crashing waves. The ocean – a massive heaving crashing force. The boom of the wave impact against the wall – getting sprayed with water – over and over … Towers of spray, like spume shooting out of a whale. I wasn’t the only person who chose to go down to the sea wall yesterday. There were tons of people down there, either parked in their cars, or standing right out against the wall, looking at the storm. The wind was intense. The sky was grey and dramatic – it was like you could almost picture the sweeping curve of the entire storm as if you were looking at a satellite picture, only from below. You could sense the longness of the arms of the storm, the scope of it. The noise of the waves and the wind and the crashing was so loud that people had to shout to be heard. The ocean was coming across to me as a living organism, bubbling, boiling over, heaving beneath that crashing white foam. I love the ocean in all its moods, but I love it in its stormy mood the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Drove down to the beach yesterday afternoon – to watch the surf. The waves were so high that they were crashing over the sea wall. Huge breakers crashing, the entire ocean appeared to be a-foaming. Normally you see at least … Continue reading