This was a one day trip to the Oregon Coast from our new home in Happy Valley, Oregon (near Portland). There was a big storm about 200-300 miles off the Oregon Coast so waves were supposed to be about 6-7 foot early in the morning growing to near 20 foot by evening. Our photos start at about 11:30 AM through about 5:00 PM, so we were seeing some pretty good size waves. Also, high tide was around 3:40 PM that day, and the storm surge pushed the tide about 4 feet above normal high tide. In fact a woman was washed off the little pier next to the restaurant shown in the first image. That happened about 4:00 PM, just after 'official' high tide. They proceeded to close the pier and beaches at that point!