The weather forecast for today was heavy rains and on the South coast, a coastal flood advisory was issued by the National Weather Service around the time of high tide. I had to drop off some information at the sanctuary, so I plan my visit for around a high tide, so that I could capture what was happening. When I arrived at the entrance to Gooseberry Neck (still closed off because of the damage from previous storms), I parked and got out of the car and almost was blown over, the wind was blowing at probably 20 to 30 kn/hour. The spray was coming in off the water and the waves were crashing into the rocks. I set up my camera and tripod, keeping the tripod, low so it would present less of its profile to the wind. I started taking pictures and then the rains came heavy the front lens of the camera in no time at all had raindrops and even though I cleaned the lens off, I still obtain some blurry pictures. I did not stay up long, because of the rain. I then traveled in the car, further down to the edge of the sanctuary property and photographed the angry sea through the car window. Even though I ran the windshield wipers I still had raindrops on the car window and therefore on the photograph.
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| Center of the picture is blurry due to the rain |
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| Fuel through my car window before I turned on the windshield wipers |
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| The beach, the sea, waves viewed through my car window |
