Windswept Shore, photo by Harold Davis. View this image larger.

Briefly noted: On Drakes Beach a ferocious wind blew through the gap in the bluffs out to sea. In the wind, the sand scoured across the beach. I was a bit reluctant to take my camera out, but (surprisingly) the “sand storm” was all low lying—within a foot of the ground. So I could stand with the blowing sand swirling around my knees and photograph without risking my lens.

Other Drakes Bay wave photos: Patterns of Design; Surf; and Wave Tangent. Also check out Mountains on the Beach.