Please help me write correctly! Thank you! We could see the wave was high above the hazy ocean, and the top /crest * of the wave was shining. [* what do you say “the top of the wave” in a conversational way?] The entire wave looks /looked [past tense] like silk curtains and I could not stay [there] and watch without taking pictures.

Please help me write correctly! Thank you! We could see the wave was high above the hazy ocean, and the top of the wave was shining. * what do you say “the top of the wave” in a conversation way? The entire wave looks like silk curtains and I could not stay there without taking pictures.