Posting a couple of photos taken on 11-DEC-2014 at of Walton Light, Santa Cruz Harbor, California.
Extreme wind and surf hit the West Coast of California for nearly 3 straight days, making for some amazing photographic opportunities.
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Steamer Lane Surfing Pics – Santa Cruz, CA
Between storms, the waves really picked up at Steamers Lane, Santa Cruz, CA.
Steamer’s Lane has a rich surfing history. It is just off a point on the side of cliffs in the West Cliff residential area near downtown Santa Cruz, providing a good opportunity to view the surfing. The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum is in the lighthouse there. “Steamer Lane” is the preferred form of the name used by the locals. It was at Steamer Jack O’Neil invented the modern surfing wetsuit, “Just because he wanted to surf longer”.
I went out to capture some of the Saturday action:
Pacific Storm slams Santa Cruz, CA
It was an ugly, ugly morning in Santa Cruz.
Following almost a week of non-stop unsettled weather, Mother Nature decided to give us a little reminder of how insignificant and inconsequential we are in the grand scheme of things.
Obviously, this is nothing like the horrid disaster of Hurricane Sandy, but and angry sea, is, an angry see.
Here are some photos takes along West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz on the 2nd of December. The sunlight was a horrible blue from the deep clouds and reflection out of the ocean. I did the best I could do on the color correction:
Santa Cruz – a beach with a view
Having just returned from the smoggy skies and urban jungle of L.A., a walk to the beach was mandatory for the last day of a nice long weekend.
Here are some photos from that walk.
