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Wave Forms

Pacific Ocean wave images from California and Hawaii.

Rodeo Beach Sunset NYE 2011-12 – A beautiful end to 2011 seen from above the incoming tide line on Rodeo Beach in Marin County California. A rolling wave’s spray, orange sunlight and a look …
Mendenhall Ice Cavern-7304 – Inside a stable ice cavern formed by the Mendenhall River underneath the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska. Access to the ice cavern is by hiking across the …
Beach Foam Sunset 2 – Post-storm sunset light reacting with Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. February 17, 2011.
Beach Foam Sunset 1 – Post-storm sunset light reacting with Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. February 17, 2011.
Beach Foam Sunset 4 – Post-storm sunset light reacting with Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands just north of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. February 17, 2011.
Rodeo 1542 – An offshore rock interfering with the symmetry of Rodeo Beach’s irregular break. Marin County, California.
Rodeo Sunset Wave -1421-2 – A wave emerging from the churning foam along the cliff at the north side of Rodeo Beach in Marin County. The last 30 minutes of daylight cast shadows in the ripp …
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Unfavorable Odds – Competiton surfer staying ahead of the advancing wall of water that gave him a ride. Mavericks, February 2010.
Tongue – A curling tongue appears for a moment in an unrideable wave during the 2010 Mavericks Big Wave Surf Competition, Princeton-by-the-Sea, California.
Hanalei Bay VIII – A single wall of wave breaking along the north side of Hanalei Bay, as seen from the cliff. November, 2008
Hanalei Bay VII – Waves breaking along the north side of Hanalei Bay, as seen from the cliff. November, 2008
Hanalei Bay V – Waves breaking along the north side of Hanalei Bay, as seen from the cliff. November, 2008
Mavericks Big Wave Surf competition in Half Moon Bay, California in January 2008.
No Shelter – A tube closing during the Mavericks Big Wave Surf competition in Half Moon Bay, California in January 2008.
Mavericks Effect II – Mavericks Big Wave Surf competition in Half Moon Bay, California in January 2008.
Mavericks Effect – Mavericks Big Wave Surf competition in Half Moon Bay, California in January 2008.
Golden Bonita – A dissipating wave at Marin County’s Point Bonita lighthouse reflects the warm golden sunset on a November day.
Wilder Blue II – Breaking wave in Wilder Ranch State Park, Santa Cruz, California.
Princeville Wave Action – A tourist in an ultralight and a tow-in surfer enjoy a 30-foot wave in Hanalei Bay from very different perspectives. December 2004.
Daylight Foam – A December 2004 dawn wave beaking on the reef outside Hanalei Bay in Kauai following a major Pacific Ocean storm.
Inside Emerald Green – Waves breaking on Kauai at the base of the cliffs of Maha’Ulepu.
Emerald Green I – Waves breaking on Kauai at the base of the cliffs of Maha’Ulepu.

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