Jellyfish and capillary waves
Sometimes the best wave watching doesn’t happen how you expect it to happen. Look at this jellyfish, bobbing about in the surface of Kiel fjord. Can you spot the circular…
Tag: capillary waves
From wind-driven capillary waves to gravity waves on a calm lake
The picture above I thought was too pretty to not put on my blog (because my blog’s main function to me is still my personal brain dump), but the picture…
Surface roughness, fetch, capillary waves
Talking about capillary waves the other day, I thought I’d show you some more pictures of them. Today not in a close up, but rather their overall effect on surface…
Gravity waves and capillary waves on Kiel fjord
Yesterday, I took some pretty pictures of a red balloon floating on Kiel fjord, some seagulls swimming close to it, and — of course, most importantly — the seagull’s waves.…
The wonders of a Wadden Sea. Or what someone addicted to #wavewatching thinks they are
As someone living on the German Baltic Sea coast, I don’t spend a lot of time on the North Sea coast (except, actually, my week-long vacation after Easter with my…