I know,
it is normally brown/gray here. But every know and then it looks blue. We get swells a little more often than they do and it is colder. Plus I heard there are turds and stuff floating around up there.
I rode some waves as big as the one in your last picture-
once- down in Kitty Hawk, NC during a Hurricane. Very scary if you aren't used to it, I broke my board and everything.