Waves!

The sea was angry that day my friends. March 19, 2008 there was an alert put out for the eastern Caribbean islands. A low pressure system over the Atlantic Ocean had prompted an alert for large sea swells in our area. The waves were forecast to be 12-16 feet high! Now obviously the photo above is fake even though it was a good effort in photoshop. However, the damage caused by these swells were very real. There was a little cement wall I liked to sit on to watch the ocean at sunset. Since these waves were coming in higher than normal the sand around its base was washed away. Since there was no longer a base for the cement to sit on it fell! I sang that primary song, "the wise man built his house upon the rock, the foolish man built his house upon the sand" in my mind on the way home. Crazy stuff, but really interesting to watch the sea change so dramatically. It is normally quite calm in our little bay. So I learned my lesson, do not build a house on the beach. There goes my retirement to Fiji idea.