Category: Spectacular Displays of Nature
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I didn't get a single run out of this thing. On Facebook last week I posted "Old Plan: Catch spectacular windsurfing conditions. New Plan: Board up house. While the house didn't need boarding up (the storm surge stopped rising 1" short of our living room) the crawlspace filled with six feet of salt water. The…
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There was way too much work to do at our house this weekend to think about catching Sunday’s winds. We are flood zone fodder! Everything that could be carried upstairs is upstairs, everything we couldn’t carry upstairs we raised as high as we could (the dining room table has been designated sacrificial…the couches are now…
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Okay, not really. Bt this thing is going in the watahs of New Joisey, no kidding! Extra Extra read all about it! (Photo courtesy of NJ Fish and Wildlife)
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This should cause Peconic Jeff to bug out. Wave clouds…hell yeah! Spotted on Facebook in a post by Ely, this image was taken in Alabama a day or two ago. From the Cloud Appreciation Society: "The breaking waveforms of Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds are the result of shearing winds up at cloud level. A particular type of…
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A SUP surfer named Chuck Patterson shot this last summer at San Onofre in San Diego. It’s your basic “stick a gopro camera in the water and enjoy footage of great white sharks circling you” deal. I would have bugged out. Oh yeah, and paddled back to shore toot sweet. But Chuck was in awe…
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This is not a windsurfing post. I apologize in advance if this complete departure from wind and wave annoys you (if you suspect it might, it probably will…quick go to Continent Seven and check out some great windsurfing media.) This here post is about a piece of music I stumbled over (on McPhilly's blog) by…
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Rainbows highlighted beauties like these as they rolled through Tiana last Sunday. And Jeff Schultz (carrying not one but TWO cameras with him as we SUPped in overhead waves) snapped away. He’s got stills and video from the day on his blog.
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That is a navigational chart of the Marshall Islands, showing "directions & interactions of the ocean swells as they pass through." For real. I learned this from Bonnie Queen of the Kayak Bloggers, who has a post about the chart and links to all sorts of info about these "paperless charts". Bonnie wrote: I think…
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No way would I want any piece of that thing. It is magnificent, and I have much respect for the people who surf Mavericks. This photo is from a collection on Facebook by Frank Quirarte. The album of photos (taken at Mavericks on December 9th) is outstanding!
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Last week Peconic Jeff and I went down past the Flying Point side of Mecox Bay to check out the surf at the Cut… the Cut so named because Mecox Bay is only an actual bay when the barrier beach that seals it off from the ocean is cut by the town (to lower water…