out and about - 2015
07 November 2015 ........... Stormy sea at Porthcawl
Quite a stormy sea today, the outer wall of Porthcawl harbour was getting a bit of a battering, although I expect it has seen worse.
One of the things that was happening was that a wave would come in, it would reflect off the sea wall, travel back out and collide with the next incoming wave - it was classic wave action that causes clapotis around the outside of sea walls and cliffs.
Occasionally both the reflected wave and the next incoming wave were big ones, and a huge haystack exploded upwards some 20 to 30 metres out - this one is quite close to the sea wall, but it is clear that this is a haystack, not a wave hitting the wall.
The good ones didn`t happen often, and they were hard to photograph because you got no warning that it was going to happen, you just got this huge explosion and then it was gone.
In all these pictures the cliffs away at the back are the cliffs that dominate most of the coastline between Ogmore and Nash Point - there are some good sections of paths above quite a few of the cliffs, which I think are part of the Wales Coastal Path.
Some sections of the cliffs are well documented venues that can provide some quite challenging sea cliff climbing, but they are not well used.
Finally for the day, a few hours later, and looking over some rooftops at a fairly stormy but colourful sunset to end the afternoon.
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