I’m just going to post a few photos I took today when I went to the Santa Monica Pier to see the big surf created by Hurricane Marie, which is still off the coast of Baja, but closer than most hurricanes get to Los Angeles. There were two things I noticed about the surf, aside from the fact that the waves were larger than normal. The interval between waves was half of what it usually is. Instead of about 20 seconds between waves, it was less than 10 seconds. And you can see the effect of a rip tide in this photo. The dark blue rather flat break in the line of crashing waves is where a rip tide is rushing water back to the ocean. Rip tides are powerful and very dangerous if a swimmer gets caught in one.
There is a trapeze school on the pier. I wonder what it must be like to earn one’s living teaching the art of the trapeze by catching young women who are trying to fly through the air.
