{"id":13633,"date":"2018-04-14T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T23:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superrachelzana.com\/blog\/?p=13633"},"modified":"2018-04-14T18:22:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T23:22:46","slug":"tumultuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/?p=13633","title":{"rendered":"Tumultuous"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"waveapproachstamp\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/waveapproachstamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\">\n<p>Just a few hours south of here in Minnesota and Wisconsin, they are getting feet of snow. \u00a0But here, \u00a0gale winds are keeping most of it at bay, and we have some amazing waves to watch. \u00a0This morning Mr. TOF had swimming lessons. \u00a0Afterward, he, The Banana and I headed to the bakery to get bread. \u00a0Since there was a wave alert posted, I thought it would be good to drive past the beach. \u00a0The waves did not disappoint. \u00a0In fact, after watching them for more than 30 minutes, we decided to drive up the North Shore just a tiny bit to Stony Point to see what the big waves looked like there as well. \u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"waveblogstamp\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/waveblogstamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>This blobby wave might be my favorite.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"wavefallstamp\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/wavefallstamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>Near the beach the sediment was stirred up, so the water was a deep red\/brown.<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"waveangrystamp\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/waveangrystamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>This wave kind of looks like it could gobble up people. \u00a0If you got any closer it probably would! \u00a0The waves were crashing over the road in places and through ice chunks across the road! \u00a0We were parked by a picnic table that is quite a substantial distance away from the beach, and the waves made it up past the picnic table. \u00a0They sometimes made it just a couple of feet from our car. \u00a0It was astounding.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"tworocks1satmp\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tworocks1satmp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>That rock pile is the rocks the kidlets are always climbing on when we visit the beach. \u00a0The tallest rocks are 8-10 feet high at least. \u00a0I know they look tiny down there, but check out how high the spray got when the waves crashed in:<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"tworocks2stamp\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tworocks2stamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"tworocks3stmap\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tworocks3stmap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"tworocks4stamp\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tworocks4stamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>On one side of Stony Point a troop of surfers were out. \u00a0There was a lot of traffic on the tiny little gravel road, so we didn\u2019t stop there, but we did stop on the other side of the point to see the water approaching. \u00a0There were a lot of people out and about here too. \u00a0The waves were crashing so high that spray was covering our car. \u00a0The wind was so strong you couldn\u2019t stay out for long at a time, but we had a lot of fun watching out the window. \u00a0The pictures really don\u2019t do any of it justice, but they especially don\u2019t capture the wildness of Stony Point, which was even more furious than the beach. \u00a0What you can\u2019t tell from the picture is how far up that spray is reaching because you can\u2019t really see the distance of the cliffs here. The water was a deep blue at Stony Point\u00a0because the floor of the lake is more rocky and since there is not any river or stream nearby, there is not a lot of sediment right here,\u00a0meaning that the water is much more clear. These images didn\u2019t really capture the pretty color of the water very well either. One of the best parts of watching the water at Stony Point was seeing the enormous swells far out into the lake before they approached. \u00a0It was such a mass of rolling water.<br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"stonypointstamp\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stonypointstamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"stonypointwaves1stamp\" src=\"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/stonypointwaves1stamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>Eventually we brought our bread home, made toast, and snuggled up in front of the fire for a lazy afternoon of reading good books.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few hours south of here in Minnesota and Wisconsin, they are getting feet of snow. \u00a0But here, \u00a0gale winds are keeping most of it at bay, and we have some amazing waves to watch. \u00a0This morning Mr. TOF had swimming lessons. \u00a0Afterward, he, The Banana and I headed to the bakery to get bread. \u00a0Since there was a wave alert posted, I thought it would be good to drive past the beach. \u00a0The waves did not disappoint. \u00a0In fact, after watching them for more than 30 minutes, we decided to drive up the North Shore just a tiny bit to Stony Point to see what the big waves looked like there as well. \u00a0 This blobby wave might be my favorite.\u00a0 Near the beach the sediment was stirred up, so the water was a deep red\/brown. This wave kind of looks like it could gobble up people. \u00a0If you got any closer it probably would! \u00a0The waves were crashing over the road in places and through ice chunks across the road! \u00a0We were parked by a picnic table that is quite a substantial distance away from the beach, and the waves made it up past the picnic table. \u00a0They sometimes made it just a couple of feet from our car. \u00a0It was astounding.\u00a0 That rock pile is the rocks the kidlets are always climbing on when we visit the beach. \u00a0The tallest rocks are 8-10 feet high at least. \u00a0I know they look tiny down there, but check out how high the spray got when the waves crashed in: On one side of Stony Point a troop of surfers were out. \u00a0There was a lot of traffic on the tiny little gravel road, so we didn\u2019t stop there, but we did stop on the other side of the point to see the water approaching. \u00a0There were a lot of people out and about here too. \u00a0The waves were crashing so high that spray was covering our car. \u00a0The wind was so strong you couldn\u2019t stay out for long at a time, but we had a lot of fun watching out the window. \u00a0The pictures really don\u2019t do any of it justice, but they especially don\u2019t capture the wildness of Stony Point, which was even more furious than the beach. \u00a0What you can\u2019t tell from the picture is how far up that spray is reaching because you can\u2019t really see the distance of the cliffs here. The water was a deep blue at Stony Point\u00a0because the floor of the lake is more rocky and since there is not any river or stream nearby, there is not a lot of sediment right here,\u00a0meaning that the water is much more clear. These images didn\u2019t really capture the pretty color of the water very well either. One of the best parts of watching the water at Stony Point was seeing the enormous swells far out into the lake before they approached. \u00a0It was such a mass of rolling water. Eventually we brought our bread home, made toast, and snuggled up in front of the fire for a lazy afternoon of reading good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13644,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13633\/revisions\/13644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}