After photographing the pink of dawn at Cape Kiwanda, I hung around for a while enjoying the wave action. Irsquo;ve seen great wave action crashing against the bluffs before, but Irsquo;ve never seen the effect captured here (at least not this dramatic).The swells were timed so that as a wave would wash back from the sandstone, it would collide with the next wave coming in. Every 10 minutes, or so, a set of larger swells would arrive, and the effect was quite dramatic. The massive boom it would make was pretty cool.

It's hard to get a perspective of how big the wave is. If you look close though, therersquo;s a sea gull in the upper left corner between the me and the wave.