The Natural History of Bodega Head

    10-foot swell + 15-second wave period + an offshore breeze = a setup for spindrift!  A few wave photos from this morning (12 January 202...

    The offshore buoy was reporting wave heights of ~22 feet earlier today (23 December 2024).  These were big waves, so I took a few photo...

    Not sure about you, but I was a little surprised by the strength of the wind this morning.  I think the prediction was for ~6 mph, but i...

    Recent weather forecasts have included a lot of different things  — scattered showers, gusty winds, elevated seas, flood advisories, thu...

    The waves were still sizable at the coast today, with swell in the 14-17 foot range.  And I didn't expect it based on the forecast, ...

    Some nice waves off the outer beach of Point Reyes this morning (26 December 2023).   At times the sun angle was just right to light up ...

    These waves weren't that big, but the angle of light and the wind direction combined to produce some nice colors in the spindrift.  ...

    Hard to resist spindrift like this.  Photographed on 1 February 2023.

    Another photo of the stormy conditions on 7 January 2023.   [You can click on the image for a larger version.]

    It was overcast and raining for most the day (2 January 2023) and then around sunset the sky became interesting, with a bright rainbow t...

    Still sorting through some wave photos.  Here's one that caught my eye...

    This one is from earlier in January.  I like the way the rainbow colors appear along the different sections of the wave .

    Now that's spindrift!     Photographed off the southern end of Bodega Head on 12 January 2022.   [You can click on the image for a l...

    8 January 2022

    The buoy offshore of Point Reyes reported wave heights between 20-30 feet for most of the last 24 hours.  These photos were taken from ...

    Large west northwest swell today (12-15 feet).  [You can click on the images for larger versions.]     Waves are predicted to be large t...

I'm working on a project tonight, but here are a few more recent wave shots.  [Click on them for larger versions.]  Enjoy!              ...

The swell was even larger this morning (the offshore buoy was reading ~17 feet at 19 seconds).  A few more photos for the record.  [You can ...

      I had to make a run out to the coast today (7 December 2020).  The waves were pretty big (the swell was ~13 feet in the late afternoon...

  West-northwest swell and south-southeast winds made for some pretty waves today (20 January 2020).  [You can click on the images fo...