Beyond Size:Statement two and a half miles

two and a half miles from the nearest road

the right-hand cobblestone wave that's been the venue for the WSL Finals — and the spot where the best surfers in the world tend to be visible from the sand on any given afternoon

Roughly half of the North Pacific's humpback whales — somewhere over ten thousand animals — migrate to the warm shallow water around Maui every winter to calve and mate

Sunrise here arrives at the open end of the wave first

off the north coast of Alaska

Beyond Size:Statement two and a half milesA long exposure at Hena, the last stretch of sand on Kauai's north shore before the road ends at K. The Pickled Image left the shutter open long enough that the surf smooths into a single soft plane and the foam writes its own line across the sand. Past Hena the coast goes wild the N Pali cliffs begin a mile beyond the frame, and the only way west from here is on foot.