(1) Short, shallow fetches prevent major whitecaps on small bodies of water, and a leeward shoreline always is within reach.(2) Offshore, breakers swelled in the whitecaps and then crashed in the shallow water, strong enough to body surf for twenty yards.(3) Wherever possible, he writes with a seaman's lingo of seaways, gunwales, swells and whitecaps .(4) I can see whitecaps out on the water, but the ship rides so smooth that I can hardly tell we're underway.(5) If you imagine the ground as the surface of a sea, these waves range from ripples to choppy whitecaps to long, slow swells.(6) At high tide, the little bay looks deep and blue and can even develop some modest whitecaps .(7) The blue, blue sea, specked with whitecaps , the dramatic, green-clad peaks, and the colorful beachside villages look (especially from about a mile away) like a dream come true.(8) The bright colors of their sails flashed across the whitecaps before disappearing in the heavy swells.(9) The squall that had blown in just as we left the mainland was now peeling spray off the whitecaps , and I was drenched.(10) The wind picked up on Sunday putting some whitecaps on some swells off shore and then mother nature unleashed a storm that was very out of character for this time of year.(11) Paddling on the river is easy and relaxing - until winds at 30 miles per hour transform the waters into whitecaps breaking over the bow of your little kayak.(12) Whether a coast is perceived may depend on the height of bird, the amount of moonlight, or presence of whitecaps .(13) Far off, other mountain peaks descended into smaller whitecaps and waves of hills that broke against the base of Cadillac Mountain.(14) Two years later I sat in the little town of Loreto watching the whitecaps blow over the ocean.(15) Jake accepted the pole from Abby, and the two quietly watched the whitecaps in the bay, while the clouds lazily drifted overhead.(16) The wind was blowing hard, driving big waves before it and occasionally pushing whitecaps over their tops.
