Intensive blowhole activity beside Droskyn Point, Perranporth

Sea pandemonium with frequent blowhole whoomphs and splashdowns in rugged cliff alcove just south-west of Droskyn Point, Perranporth, Cornwall, UK. Multiple caves open into that narrow space, and waves tend to get concentrated and thus amplified in power as they come in there. There may be more than one blowhole there — at least I've heard booms and thuds coming from different points in that confusion of sea activity in there, but that could all be just normal hammering action of the waves violently surging into clefts within the caves.

I made this recording on 25 October 2015, on the south-west side of the alcove, facing across it. I started recording from the same position as in the earlier photo below, but became concerned about the recorder's safety there, so after a short while I moved it to just a little further up, off to the right of the photo, though still quite precariously situated, right on the grassy cliff-edge so it could capture as much as possible of the turmoil and pandemonium continuing below. I joined the two recordings afterwards.

The swell wasn't all that large this time, but evidently the tide was just right for even a quite modest swell really to get the blowhole activity going.

Advisory

Because of the processing to widen and sharpen the originally atrocious stereo imaging, the sea may sound rather phasey when listened to from certain speaker systems. Therefore high-grade headphones are the best solution.

An earlier recording taking place (7 March 2015) on the same spot as where this recording started.

Earlier overall view of the cliff alcove. The 'cave' high-up there is presumably a miners' adit (7 July 2007 photo)

Techie stuff

The recorder was Sony PCM-M10, with Røde DeadKitten furry windshield (original, more effective, version), placed on a Zipshot Mini tripod.

Post-recording processing was to apply EQ in Audacity to correct for the muffling effect of the windshield, and more recent processing with the A1 Stereo Control VST plugin (160% widening).

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