We flew an airborne lidar perpendicular to the coastline along straight-line transects that varied in length between 230 and $280\mathrm{km}$ . The sample spacing was $\sim 3\mathrm{m}$ , so we sampled almost five decades of spatial scales. Except for the return from right at the surface, the power spectra of backscattered power had a power-law dependence on spatial frequency, with a slope of $\sim 1.49$ . This corresponds to a fractal dimension of 1.76. This implies that the distribution is not as patchy as that of a purely turbulent process.

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