“First a seething mass of broiling water crowned by a white crest came round the shore from one direction. Seconds later another white wall rounded the other side of the island, the waves surging towards each other. This was the first wave and it sent speedboats flying across the tops of the waves like matchsticks. The wave left as suddenly as it came. Ten minutes later the locals who had been surveying the damage to their boats, now well inland, started racing along the shore gesturing frantically and yelling that the Big Wave was coming again!”
