Devil’s Punch Bowl is a churning cauldron of turbulent surf, especially at high tide and when cool-season, storm-generated swells batter the headland holding the hole. The formation is in young (15-million-year-old) marine sandstone, formerly a couple of closely spaced sea caves whose walls and roof weakened and collapsed, later to be busted back into boulders, stones, and ultimately sand again, by the same ocean in which it hardened to rock.
Otter Rock OR (15 Mar 98) Looking W
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