Waves

The ocean is a beautiful thing.  It pounds at the coast perpetually, creating an ever-changing boundary.  At sea, a boat rides up and down on the waves, bobbing along with the rhythm of nature.  The cool thing is that waves come in all shapes and sizes.  Mostly sizes.  From ripples to tides, waves are incredibly diverse. 
It's an excellent demonstration of the limitations of instruments.  If you're in a boat bobbing around on the ocean, you don't 'feel' the ripples in the water around you.  Those barely hit the boat at all.  In the same way, you don't notice the tides as you sit in your boat, the massive sloshing of the world's oceans from one coast to the other.  All that you notice are the waves of just the right size to affect your boat. 
Anyhow, back to the ocean.  It can be incredibly terrifying.  It's an enormous stretch of the unknown.  Even now, we actually know more about the surface of Venus than we do about the bottom of the ocean.  We are constantly revealing new species and even entire ecosystems.  And yet at the same time, the oceans have been traveled for millenia.  They're a strange mix of the known and the unknown.  The oceans are fantastically powerful, and certainly deadly.  And I suppose that's why they appeal so much to me. 

Sorry for this kind of stub of a post.  I've been swamped with to-do's recently. 

I'm thankful for the consistent changing of the ocean and the hope and inspiration it offers me.