I went to Ocean Beach early on Christmas morning to get pictures and videos of 2015’s King Tide.
A “King Tide” coincides with a full moon and is the highest of the high tides for the year, excluding storm tides and tsunamis.
The King Tide for 2015 was about 7¼ feet.
While not nearly as exciting as storm tides, I got a nice video that includes several rainbows created by the ocean spray, smack dab in the middle of the video.
I didn’t see the rainbows until I got home and watched the video.
The area in the video normally is a wide, sandy beach full of people, even on cold winter days, “cold” being defined as temperatures below 60°F.
The area where I was standing normally is a dry bluff about twelve feet above the sandy beach, but just to get this Christmas video for all y’all, I stood in water and got significantly wet from the spray of the waves crashing a few feet from me.
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You were intrepid!
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Thanks for getting your feet wet for us! 🙂
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We’ren’t you scared of being swept away?
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Naw. I’ve been to the same place many times before during the much-higher storm tides.
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Fair enough. I was just thinking of all the rock fishermen who get swept off here in Australia. 🙂
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Not too far from where I was, and on Christmas Day too, a man fell 60 feet to his death because he was walking and smartphoning without paying attention to the dangerous area he was walking in.
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Oh that’s awful, truly awful. I know smartphoning is not smart, but being killed is a terrible punishment for a moment of inattention. 😦
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Looks to me like a pot of gold was buried in the rock nearby.
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Possibly, but someone got it before I got there!
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That’s beautiful! Thanks for sharing it. Merry Christmas to you, Jim, and Zoey as well.
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Thanks. Best wishes to you and yours for health, happiness, peace, and prosperity in 2016 and beyond.
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Thank you for the video Russel. I hope you had a Merry Christmas, and best wishes for a Happy 2016.
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I could stand by the ocean watching and listening to waves breaking for hours (if allowed to lol). Thanks for sharing. We were just in Cuba and there were some spectacular wave breaks along the coast. Our driver/guide for the trip to Havana was very kind to let me stop to take some pics. My hubby urged me to return to the car after five minutes! Happy New Year to you!
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What an interesting event – King Tide. Bet it sounded smashing. Neat stuff, Russel. (Hope your new year is full of adventure and laughter!)
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