Waves go in, waves go out. 23 seconds.
My in-laws were very concerned when they heard we’d gone down to the beach, because apparently it was all over the news yesterday that there were giant ‘sneaker’ waves at Santa Cruz beach, very dangerous. We didn’t know!
But I think we must have been there during a lull — we didn’t see anything nearly that high, and there were lots of kids playing on the beach, digging in the wet sand, etc. I hope they put up signs when it’s actually dangerous; I don’t think tourists would have any idea otherwise.