The Natural History of Bodega Head

    I'm guessing you can tell that one of the birds in the photo above is not like the others.  Most of the birds are cormorants, but th...

     Early morning sand patterns in the swash zone, 6 May 2026   

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

    ...into September!

    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...

    Happy Earth Day! Most of our recent photos our from Hawai'i, so here's one from the north shore of O'ahu to help celebrate o...

    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, ...

    Swell heights at the offshore buoy reached 28 feet this morning.   In photos, it's often hard to tell how large the waves are, but ...

    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 ...

    Waves like glass at Duxbury Beach, Massachusetts, on 12 December 2023

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

    Rain on the way, 14 November 2023

    A bit of wave splash today (19 October 2023).  The offshore buoy was reporting ~11 foot swell late in the day. For scale, that's a B...

    We enjoyed watching some of the wave energy from Hurricane Lee arriving today.  I think the nearby buoys were reporting wave heights of ...

    This morning (24 April 2023) we were finishing some surveys at a site with lots of wave splash.  In this case that means the intertidal ...

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

    Ahh...such nice clean waves...not even the sea lions could resist dropping in!

    It's been a couple of weeks since the significant wave event during the early January storms, but I've been working on a small s...