Fun and Games

A photographer playing a game of "chicken" with the spray at Davenport pier around low tide today - I hope his phone/camera survived the inundation! The first extra is him legging it out of there a second later - a bit late, probably. Thank you for the challenge, John Edward!
Also in extras, (2) the swing has gone - not surprising with the size of the surf, (3) the waves rolling towards Davenport beach, where the surf report had them at 30-35 ft high. (That's 9+ to 10.7 meters for all you enlightened people out there!) There are people on the bluff for scale - but large waves are hard to capture!

The Mavericks big wave contest was not held today - not because the waves are too big, (30 to 40ft reported) but because the storm last night has left the ocean disturbed and choppy on the surface, and they do not expect the conditions to be consistent long enough for a multi day contest. Plenty of people were out enjoying the waves anyway - press pictures here -
https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/Mavericks-Beach-surf-contest-December-2018-13472845.php#photo-16659180