“How inappropriate to call this planet

"Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”

                             Arthur C Clarke

 And when the rain stops the waves begin,

I guess this is caused by shifting fronts.

Not sure what happens if he meets these logs

but a number of people were doing this.

I will never be one of them.

“The three great elemental sounds in nature

are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in

a primeval wood, and the sound of outer

ocean on a beach. I have heard them all,

and of the three elemental voices, that of

ocean is the most awesome, beautiful and varied.” 

                          from The Outermost House

                                         Henry Beston