Wednesday waves 🌊👋 video + photo

I’m on a road trip this weekend, so this week’s waves are from the Seattle - Bainbridge Island ferry. ⛴️

Wednesday waves (a day late) 🌊👋

Super low tide morning.

Wednesday waves. 🌊👋 Video + photo.

Shot from up above on a sand dune. The audio is meh because of 15 mph winds. You can hear the dune grass crackling.

Wednesday waves. 🌊 👋 Video + photo.

I went out later than usual, an overcast day with most of the color washed out, but the sun glinting on silvery gray waves looked interesting.

Wednesday waves. Photo + video. From the viewpoint on Highway 101, so more traffic sounds than ocean sounds. It’s neat to see the fog receding after being blanketed the last 24 hours.

🌊 Pacific Wave Appreciation Society 👋

Wednesday waves for the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society. Video + photo.

I added two new greeting cards to the Well-Tempered Cards shop on Etsy. It’s fun to look at the whole collection, each photo a little capsule of a moment of awe.

Wednesday waves. Video + photo. An overcast misty day, with Starfish Rock in the foreground.

Seal pup, dropped off on the beach by its mother while she hunts. Video + photo.

Everyone stayed well away, including me. (I was using a telephoto lens.) This little one was determined to get back in the water. / May 30, 2026, 7 am. Low tide.

It’s been a while since I posted something for the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society. I’m going to try doing a Wednesday Wave series.

For the video, I dusted off my DJI Osmo 3 gimbal to provide a steadier viewing experience. 😇

Shot today at 1:35, swells 6.8 ft. 🌊

The Photos app surfaced this 2024 photo today. ❤️ Bob (my dad) with the Bob Moore statue at Bob’s Red Mill. I hope they are making pancakes together in heaven. 🥞

The color on the beach at the moment of sunset yesterday. I’m still glowing, just thinking about it. Cropped but no other editing, iPhone 17 Pro.

When I was a little girl, I knew there was a prince in England born the same year as me, and I expected that I would somehow meet him so I could marry him and become a princess. 👸🏼

File that under “careful what you wish for.” 😬

Sneaker wave alert this weekend. Not everyone got the memo.

(The woman did eventually hop up onto the dune, and was not swept away.)

I finally upgraded to the iPhone 17 Pro. The 8x zoom setting is for photographing the wild ocean waves while staying dry on the shore.

The Pacific Ocean listened to my King Tides feedback. Today I saw lots of foamy white waves and the swell height was 12 ft. (video + photo) Also: big winds, sun, and hail. I wondered if I should be wearing a helmet. Welcome to Oregon coast.

Last day of January King Tides, and last of the season. (video + photo)

My favorite waves were in November. December and January were tame by comparison.

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Waves could be bigger and frothier. Will visit again next November.

There are a lot of visitors on our beach in this holiday week. It’s almost impossible to get a photo without dogs in the frame. 🥰

For the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society and anyone who likes watching waves: it’s King Tides Eve, and the sunrise high tide gave a little preview of what’s to come. (photo + video)

Happy New Year to all. 👋🏻 🌊 🌲 🏔️

What a difference a day makes. The treacherous mouth of the Columbia on a sunny less windy morning. Clear enough to see how far the jetty goes. 😮

For the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society: the massive waves at the mouth of the Columbia River, “one of the most treacherous waterways in the world,” as the sign says.

I saw this bumper sticker, and it made me think we need one for the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society. 🌊 (And, on the same walk I spotted a beach fort!)

One of favorite photos from last week’s king tides. Unflappable Seagull is not perturbed by the wind, waves or driftwood. (Nedonna Beach, South Jetty of Nehalem Bay)

(I have to admit I wouldn’t mind getting a “real” camera and zoom for a shot like this.)

It’s King Tide season, keeping your intrepid Pacific Wave and Driftwood correspondent busy!

Here’s Biggish Log, getting tossed around. Despite my prediction, this week it moved another 150 ft. down the beach, not closer to the dune.

For those in the Driftwood Trackers subgroup of the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society, here’s Biggish Log yet another 50 ft. closer to the dunes after another day of sneaker wave alert-level surf. 🌊🌊🌊

An update on Biggish Log after a weekend of sneaker wave activity. It’s moved 110 ft from where it was last week. (You can see the path of What3Words pins.) There are bigger King Tides to come, and I predict it will end up buried in the dunes like Big Log.

We’re coming up on wild winter wave season here on the Oregon coast so I wanted to offer this video + photo for the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society.

PS. That is Biggish Log, 25 ft. long, which hasn’t moved much since May. That’s why you stay away from driftwood during a sneaker wave alert.

(This post is #34 in my Substack series, Metaphor Mondays.) Late afternoon on July 29, an earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter scale struck eastern Russia. I was on my bed, taking a nap. I had spent another exhausting week in Portland with my 90-year-old dad, who was rec...

It’s not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not. – Thich Nhat Hanh Big Log, pictured above, arrived on Manzanita Beach in January. It was an impressive presence at 32 ft. long and 2.5 ft. in diameter. Winter storms eventually pushed Big Log up next to the dunes in March. Recently, the sand level has shifted. I have been away from the beach most of the summer, so I notice it during my brief visits home. Now Big Log is practically buried in new sand drifts. (below right) The same thing is happening to Biggish Log (only 25 ft. long), which arrived in May and hasn’t moved much. It’s driftwood. I know that impermanence is suggested right there in the name. But I’ll always be a little sad when familiar things change. Or disappear altogether. Metaphor Monday #33

Life has been chaotic for me lately. I’ve been busy with family stuff in Portland most of July. But I did get back to the coast for a very misty morning, and wanted to to share some chaotic wave footage with the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society, plus a seagull who also appreciates the waves.