We received quite a few emails about the recent Big Waves on Poverty Beach story. Originally, we were testing the capemayX site when combining mixed media. We're bringing the story to the top of the heap again to explain our process so readers understand how stories and follow-ups work and unfold on capemayX.com.

Popular stories get shared. A conversation starts. People say "wow, I bet so and so would love this" and they email the article to friends or family. That's why we created easy share tools on the site. Sometimes when people really connect with a story, they'll email capemayX.com offering additional insights, thoughts or even new content.

If we receive something good from a viewer, we'll post a "follow up" that appears further down the main column. The follow up is easy to recognize since it's indented and identified by the grey Update text, and the red Follow up # text.

So for example, on the Wave story, Bob Allison had a great addition. He shared a recent encounter his family had meeting the legendary Laird Hamilton who I had made a passing reference to in the original story. He emailed the photo, we posted a follow up, and voila, the story adds an intersting new layer.

"'Tis true: there's magic in the web of it" — Shakespeare, Othello

Follow-up #2. When we learned Don Merwin actually had a 10 shot series of that original photo, that became the second follow up. Good stories can take root and shoot off in all sorts of interesting directions making them richer and more enjoyable.

We're explaning this because we do not want to take anything for granted with our audience. We want everyone to understand how the site works and we recognize many viewers might not be too familiar with the posting and follow-up process. Hopefully this simple explanation helps you to better enjoy our content. If you have any questions at all, please feel free to email us. We'll have another helpful story that clearly explains RSS feed, and how you can use them to make your experiene with capemayX.com, or any site, much faster and easier.

So here's the original story. By the way, the follow up posts always stay tightly connected to the original story. When we have hundreds of stories, these pieces will always stay together as a unit so you get the full context of a story and subsequent follow-ups.
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Power meet Guts click What an amazing shot! We were so impressed, we created a custom home page banner from it (our banner images change frequently). You just don't usually associate this type of wave with Cape May. It's got a mini-mini Teahupoo feel to it in terms of lip thickness and raw crunch appeal. The talented eye responsible for immortalizing this moment in Poverty is Don Merwin. Check out his funky photography shop that he runs with his wife Tina — Spirit Catcher, at the end of Carpenter's Mall on Perry street. Great stuff. Bodysurfing. Body surfing. Yeeha.