Spouting Horn a Thor's Well

The first time I came upon the phenomenon of coastal blowholes was during a documentary shoot in Tonga. We were picking up B-roll of Tongatapu’s natural beauty and were taken to the blowholes off the island’s southern coast where the surf surges into the coral shelf, the pressure from which has created tubes of various diameters and when the water hits below them it not only sends dozens of plumes into the air, it creates a sound unlike anything I’ve ever heard, nature’s subsonic pipe organ.

So it was a pleasant surprise to come upon the Spouting Horn at Thor’s Well on the coast of Yachats, Oregon and witness again its visual and aural delights. One thing the two locations have in common is Captain James Cook’s role in bringing them to the forefront of discovery for the rest of the world.