Blowing Rocks (December 2025)

January 30, 2026

Splashing Over the Rocks

Blowing Rocks is a nature preserve with a unique feature on the Florida east coast which is mostly sand beaches. A short stretch of the beach is rocky and the waves have worn holes and cracks in the rocks. When wave hit them, the water blows through them. There doesn't seem to be as many cracks and holes for water to shoot through as there used ...
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Blowing Rocks (January 2024)

January 17, 2026

The Wave is Shooting Through a Small Hole in the Rock

I've posted a couple times about Bowing Rocks before. This is from a January 2024 trip there. This was close to high tide, but not one of the bigger ones. The best time to go is during a full or new moon at high tide. Check a tide chart to see when the tide will be the highest. Even at the highest tides, the rocks are not underwater.

Blowing Rocks (December 2003)

October 10, 2009

Blowhole

Here's some more pics from Blowing Rocks on Jupiter Island.

[img 49] Waves Coming In

[img 48] Man-O-War

[img 47] Rock Blowhole

[img 46] Bird Preparing for Takeoff<...
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Blowing Rocks (2009)

January 20, 2009

Blowing Rocks 1-09 - Big Splash Collage

On Jupiter Island, just north of Jupiter Florida, there's a nature preserve with a unique feature on the Florida coast. The coast is rocky and the waves have worn holes through the rocks so that when they hit, the water blows up through them. Here is a wide angle of a wave crashing into them.

This collage sho...
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