As you may have figured from the previous video, there is something more to the Cape Perpetua area that just a big rock sticking up over the Coast. There is also a lot of surf. Now this is not the surf where the waves come rolling into a sandy beach with surf boards, wind surfers, bikini babes etc. Rather, this is a place with a rough surf that pounds in upon a shoreline composed of solid rock with a volcanic origin.
And yet, that is part of the appeal of the place. For here you can simply watch th
e water pound its fury out upon these rocks. And as violent as it may seem in the "summe
r" you can only wonder at the fury expended in the winter during the infamous storms that regularly hit these coasts.
I had originally hoped that we would be able to explore some of the tidal pools in the area. I had explored some of tidal pools up on the Washington State Coast 
in the Olympic National Park and was looking forward to sharing a different form of this experience with A. But it was the wrong time of day. Despite our early start, we got there after 12 noon, and the tide was coming in. So, we were advised not to get too close
to the tidal pools since the tide would be completely in about 4:00 PM. (The moral of this is: check with the Hatfield Marine Science Center for the Tide Schedule when planning a trip to this area.)
We had no choice we had to be content to simply watch the tide come in. But did it ever come in. And the show of it coming in was worth the trip!
Thus, making lemonade from lemons, we decided to take a closer look at just how the tide comes into this rocky coast line.
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