Our buddy, Ed, has been on a boat in the Mentawai Islands for the past 10 days, undoubtedly surrounded by incredible waves.  Ed demonstrates his broceanography skills par excellence with this little shot of perfection that he chased down somewhere off the beaten path.   Here’s a link to a larger version of the pic.

Here’s a cool video that shows tidal movement at Black’s beach over time. http://cil-www.coas.oregonstate.edu/ncex/blacky.c1.small.mov 

Here are a couple of links to an interesting study of the deep canyons that make the waves at Black’s so special. http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/article_detail.cfm?article_num=591 http://science.whoi.edu/users/elgar/NCEX/ncex.html