Thanks, Chuck. I've livened that one a little as well as the last 3,
prompted by the Moose ...
The hydraulic action is quite common on windward, rocky coasts, where
there's different strata of rock, I suppose, that can be eroded
differentially, as it were.
Chris
On 29 May 2009, at 18:58, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Nice shots. My favorite is the flower the roof in #28. #29 reminds
> me
> of a place on the east coast of Florida called "Blowing Rocks
> Preserve".
> There's a limestone ridge with many holes in it that extends over the
> water. It normally doesn't do much because Florida waters are usually
> calm. But let a good hurricane pass by and the waves will blow water
> through the holes up to 50 feet high.
>
> I've seen that phenomenon only once. Unfortunately it was during a
> period when I was taking very few photographs. It was before I
> discovered this list and realized that my OM-2s didn't really have a
> short circuit that ran the batteries down. I only needed silver oxide
> batteries. :-)
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> I love coasts, Moose, and I expect that the Pacific coast looks great
>> where there are winds and rocks.
>>
>> I took these of the Costa Vicentina, Algarve, Portugal, last year. I
>> do hope I have not shown them here before ... ;-)
>>
>> http://www.threeshoes.net/photography/portugal/index4.html
>
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