Big Waves
Coronado Beach Calm On most days, Coronado Island is not the locus for big waves. But sometimes, nature delivers big surf in the most unexpected places. That’s the kind of day to take the camera out, screw on the biggest zoom lens I own and saunter off down the sand. It’s a day to wade into the water and let it crash around my thighs. It’s a day to dig my toes a little deeper against the strong pull of the undertow that wants me to come out to sea to play for a while in the roller coaster ride of the next big wave. Click. Click. Click. Crash. Crash. Crash. I wonder if it would ever get old if I lived at the beach and could frolic on the sand whenever I pleased. Ah, that would be the life – falling asleep and waking up to the ebb and flow of the surf crashing on the shore. It would need to be a desolate beach – one that was hard to get to so I could have it all to myself all of the time. Coronado ...