Well, sports fans, as they say during the Olympics (the games not the National Park or the Mountain Range both of which are in Washington State) "Let's get up close and personal" with this surf. Now, use care, to be sure, for the tide is coming in. So, our fearless reporter, ever envious of A.'s new camera with its 10X Zoom function, decides to go up close in person.
And the effect not only leads to a different type of shot, but also a different experience. For here I saw the surf in all its different moods.
I saw waves being channelled into breaks in the rocks.
I saw Tidal Pools being gradually being overcome by the incoming surf (and thus allowing the life within them to live and prosper).
I saw large pockets of foam churned up by the sea gathering in the various pools and puddles formed in the rocks by countless poundings of the surf through the years. (More on this in the next Posting.)
And let us not forget, there is that unique feature of this area, a spouting horn, often called a "geyser of surf." Now a geyser is defined as a natural hot spring that shoots up water on a periodic basis. The most famous one, of course, being 
"Old Faithful" in Yellowstone National Park (which A. and I watched many years ago in a blinding late May snowstorm) in Wyoming.
A spouting horn is where a geyser-like spurt of water occurs where the rocks are formed in such a way, that as the waves come in spurts of water are pushed up into the air. Cape Perpetua has one of those phenomena, it is called "The Devil's Horn." And it is quite a sight to see as the surf comes in, and the spurts grow in height and in volume with each new incoming wave.
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