And now we come to the 2004 shots. Image # 0036 from my 300D; wow, I'd forgotten that they go that low.
Here we see some surfers heading out to take advantage of what are hardly huge and menacing waves. The colours transition from a nice, safe, golden sandy colour in the foreground, to a light aqua in the shallow regions, to a deep blue "harbours lots of things that want to kill you and drown you" in the depths beyond.