Wave Crest

... rural adventures with a trip to 'Wave Rock'. This is a huge piece of rock, that through erosion, has been formed into a wave crest, 100 metres long and 15 metres high). Its apparently been around for 2700 million years - around the time of the ...

... to check into our next park - Miami Caravan Park. We then went down to the beach and spent the afternoon bodyboarding and wave jumping in the fantastic waves - brilliant. By the end of the afternoon we were absolutely shattered so went back to our van ...

... of falling rain and clouds. The next moment our gaze would absorb the tremendous 60 foot drop as the boat nudged over the wave crest and plummeted into the gaping trough of intense blue-gray water below us. Our stomach forgotten in our throats, and hands ...

... I never got tired of watching the long parallel wave fronts as they charged and broke endlessly, one after another. So smooth, the wave crest, until it reaches that point where it breaks. Then white foam appears, spreads and takes over all along the wave. ...

... and minds tiredly aware of their relativity on this stage. Stepping under the corrugated steel I glanced back to watch the Milky Wave crest, fall, slap on the gentle black beach of Nyota night. The tout slapped the hollow mini-van door, bringing me ...

... for reading..... (and the best part is...I'm completely sober ahora .=.-D ) Love with eternal gratitude for vie! T'oujours, Je c'est moi giasemoulla jumping jellybean jessamine to the next wave crest bask-in nymph in a birds nest scene ...

... transfer of a human body jumping to its feet while riding on a tiny accelerating board on the face of a steeply angled crest. As I feel the wave pushing me forward there is no need for more paddling. As quickly as possible, I push up from the board and ...

... panting and spending the energy cursing him under my breath in the time-honoured Garth Road fashion: 'stupid little piiiig'. Every crest revealed another one, but finally I got to the pass, fluttering with prayer flags. We huddled down behind a rock - ...

... surfer, spilling waves are the best. Spilling waves occur when a gradually sloping ocean floor causes the wave to become steeper and steeper until the crest spills down the face of the wave in a rush of foaming whitewater.  The wave continues in ...

... watched the water go north for about 5 minutes then, without warning, water started moving south.  We could see the white crest of the wave approach from about a mile away.   The river was very wide at Maitland so we headed upriver for the ...

... part of a large wave, it feels as though it becomes airborne, leaping like a long-jumper before crashing down violently on the crest of the next oncoming wave. A few of us actually fear for the bits and pieces of the poor old boat, subjected to such rough ...

... will never, ever as long as I live forget that day in 1994 and the thrill of surfing a 30ft yacht on the crest of a wave created by our one and only Royal Yacht and her two escorting warships. Fast forward to 2011 and HMY Britannia has ...

... I gripped for dear life, would ride up the wave of a rapid, and we couldn't see what was coming next until we reached the crest. I say "we"--in all the foaming water I usually couldn't see anyone else. More often than not, upon reaching the crest I let ...

... the machete sliced the top from a coconut; and I drank back its cold sweet milk. Leaving Papanoa behind, I climbed sharply to a low crest; then swept down the far side of the hill to a junction where men in blue uniform were not-so-busy manning a ...

... loved messing around in the surf but the rip tides and waves mixed with inexperience can be lethal. At one point I had misjudged the crest of the wave and instead of swimming up and over the wave before it crashes. I hit the top just as it started to ...

... the feeling as one of surfing or moving along with the waves of an ocean when the wave comes up behind you, lifts you to the crest of the wave and then you slide down the back of the wave.  When the wave is shorter than your body, you get a bit of a ...

... . After a few minutes of bobbing in gentler seas we head off. The boat is tossed over wave after wave, as the captain tries to steer her over the crest of each wall of water, only to come crashing and shuddering over the other side. Finally we reach ...

... to sea. When the waves collided, nearly perfect constructive interference caused the waves nearly double in size and break at the crest, throwing spray into the air. I used to teach this in Oceanography but had never observed nearly perfect constructive ...

... water. I also have one with a couple larger boats in the water for scale, and in the picture with a little spec coming over a crest with a spray trailing behind is one of the finalists ripping a sizable wave. Sick! I know. The kid in the Billabing hat ...