There has been a lot of rain lately which causes a lot of muddy water to wash into the ocean near river mouths. This wave breaks way outside of a big river mouth, turning this wave into a chocolate color. Would you believe I took this shot while driving a wave ski at the same time.
location: Outside reef break on the North Shore - Hawaii Check out my new journal for the full behind the scenes story for this photo [link]
Great shot, good size to this wave. Sadly, where I'm at, if the water has that color it's a no-no to go in. Chemicals from Tijuana factories wash into the ocean, along with every other piece of excrement and human trash from the streets and overflow from the sewer system there. We just had a big die off of bottom feeders off the Tijuana rivermouth from our most recent rain. Chemicals I'm sure.
good to be on a jetski , bet there would have been a few sharks around that area. A surfer in Oz was taken by a shark surfing a rivermouth after heavy rain last month!