Great, informative video, Treavor. It has to be both frustrating and heartbreaking for you and the other locals over the years, to have watched the officials, who thought they knew better than Mother Nature, create this disaster that seems to be coming to a head now. It truly is a shame. Thanks to you documenting what caused all of this, no one can yell "CLIMATE CHANGE". Thanks again, Treavor!!!
Hey Trevor, thanks for the great videos and update on the beach erosion. Why did they let them build on, so close to, the beach? Completely ruined the whole vistas, natural feel of the place! We were young guys from NZ travelling and surfing the Coast back in late 70s.. we camped in the bush down at the Point in winter 1979, we were travelling up and down the coast in a VW Kombi for 6 months, backwards and forwards between Cape Town and Durban, stopped at J Bay a few times, first time camped for a week in the Dunes bush down by the Point, second time in the Camp Ground at top of the Hill in town for 2 weeks. Other times just passing through. At the time, it was just bush and scrub down at Supertubes, all the way down the point... Also camped at Seal Point... no one around, no houses. went back and windsurfed at Easter 1984, with Cheron Kraak and her family..... havent been back since 1984.
Where I have surfed for many years and have a small bolt hole is Sunset Beach Port Waikato Aotearoa NZ. there have been 3 houses demolished one ready to go and about 3 more getting very close to having to go. Its as you say the big tides coinciding with a strong swell are the heart breakers. Your shots of the rocks at St Frazncis are particularly relevant as everyone calls for "rocks' and you guys have the proof of the futility, and you just mentioned the sandbags, and what effect they have. The graduates with laptops have no chance of out smarting local surfers who have watched for so long. Thank you for posting and the work you have done. This is heartbreaking as the forces we face.
You have the odd Waikato Draught and support the Chiefs. Special part of NZ you live in. Got to surf Raglan back in 2000. Thanks for bringing back those memories.
When you dam up or eliminate natural water flow. Rivers streams creeks this is what happens. Mother Earth will reclaim it one way or the other. It seems she is pissed off. Another awesome video.👍🤙💯
Excellent video, Trevor. Very sad to see what's happened to sfb having grown up there. The knockon is showing its teeth in kini bay where I currently stay. Can try slow the erosion down, but nature's going to take its course.
Hey Trevor Thanks for these videos. I love all of them. I came to j bay in 2000 and it looked so different. The beach was beautiful and a lot of sand. Got the best rights of my life there. Was so amazing. Even surfing point was great on a big swell when the JBU was out in force at supers! It looks like that local pack may be disbanded now? I remember going over to Bruce’s and seeing how the wave had been ruined by the development and removal of the dunes. I’m so sad to see what has happened to the sand. I live in California and we have seen even worse here in the last 50 years. I hope I can come back one day. I will look you up. I’d love to hear stories of the old days 🤟 Cheers
Still a few grumpy old farts left over from the JBU unfit and forever unhappy if they not shouting at someone in the lineup.. Cant help sad people just glad to be fit and surfing a short board and loving it when its on.. Hopefully Supers keeps firing for a few more years..
@@oceanadventures365 I agree. I’m 59 and never plan on giving up my short boards. I felt bad for you this winter when you broke your ribs. Glad you’re feeling better.
Student of Coastal and Ocean science in Queensland East Coast Aus... many beaches here suffering the same thing, alot attributed to development. Looking forward to studying it more either way!
@@lesterma1608 It's actually an emerging global issue, sand shortages. It's not driven mainly by global warming, at least directly. Sea Level Rise and changes in oceanographic factors due to higher ocean and atmosphere temps is doing crazy things to currents, tides and sediment flows in oceans, coasts and down rivers - so it's indirect as well, but yeah easily attributed to overdevelopment in a lot of cases. Still, sad to see these beautiful beaches essentially get gouged out.
Very informative, thank you. Have noticed similar patterns in Cape Town, particularly on the West Coast. Recall sand dunes on the island at Milnerton that must have 4 to 6 meters high. This was when there were no houses on the island and only a wooden bridge as access. Late 80's early nineties. There was a ramp which ran at a gradual angle from the Lifesaving club down to the beach. It's gone ... Small Bay would be another example and I'm thinking Lands and Sandy's as well but I'll leave it to those that surf it more regularly than myself to comment. All this I think due to development on the Cape Flats and also in Hout Bay. Dunes were much bigger at one point.
never got to surf SA, my mate passed away that lived there, i live on a south coast island to the UK, our break has become quite epic and these days a kinda secret heaven , a vast improvement to when i first started..coastal erosion has made Compton ( home break) pretty epic at times..love the channel..
... Wow mate that's very sad ,... I see how much the sand moves along my local coastline and regular go to places ... I've always been in awe at just how much a beach can change in 24 hours let alone weeks , months and years .
Another case of humans loving a place to death. Those old pics really show the predicament the area is in. Really hope some clever heads get together and come up with a solution rather than sandbagging and making things worse. Anyhow, looking forward to getting on the water and hooking up! Tight lines Trev:)
Great work here and yes the solutions the institutions come up with always seem to make them money and leave the solution part out. ❤ Your work and like you said time will tell.
PE surf is also heavily affected by this too, I remember being able to walk out at humewood without ever walking over a rock now I have to watch my step because it is only rock beneath my feet and the same is going for pipe and millers
That’s why it is so important to have Conservancies- in order to have corridors to protect our wild life and endangered plants. It’s SO sad that development has been allowed to ride rough shod over our ecosystems 😢
Been no surf and weather been shite so even fishing been impossible. Be at it soon as theres some action again. Sure you dont want me talking shit for 20 minutes😁..
It's ironic that barely 10 years ago one of the main issues people had with the Thyspunt nuclear power station project was that it would deposit too much sand in the bay. With hindsight one wonders if those sand deposits would've been a blessing in disguise had the project gone ahead.
So Maitlands beach is opposite j bay, lived here my whole life, it has massive dune system, megatons of sand is gone, 1st time just past mouth of river towards blue horizon about 200m after mouth there rocks exposed way up beach, never in my life seen that, at a stage the beach all the way to the pipeline was level, I mean so level just a bit of tide pushed water all the way under the pipe, it will recover as a result of the dune system, one thing for sure it’s narly devastated… where there no dune system I think it go bad
I was also puzzled by that. I took a visiting German professor around that way 2 weeks ago and I told him in my life I have never seen rocks out that way. The sand in PE is also a problem. No sand at pipe, millers and humewood. The rocks washing up the beach at humewood reminds me of the mid 80s when mounds of rocks washed up at humewood leaving no sand on that beach. The only spot that seems to unfortunately keeping the sand is the fence. Too much sand there.
They let the dune system at Sards do its own thing. It eventually reclaimed all the bottom parking spots (where the clu house used to be). It is now busy reclaiming the parking spots at the current top parking area and the dune shape has changed drastically over the last uear or so.
Thank you for the updates. Its so scary how we have been distroying our beautiful world. Dec Jan 1984/5 i did pro lifesaving at Kabeljoes. My tent was in the caravan park 5 m from the sand. Id walk to town to buy my supplies. Its all changed. Where do you think that sand has been deposited?
I spent a few months living in St Francis a couple of years back and to answer all those who question why such rampant development was allowed, simple answer..money talks and bullshit walks!
You dont think this cycle we are in the last 3 years are also perhaps meshingnthe beaches around. Im referring to the cycle where we have near constant east winds for nearly 7 months at a time from october to april
100% was a brain fart under video pressure🤣 The the ingrams had a place in Ann Ave. I picked it up but had loaded the vid already so all good as it was more about the sand 😁
Thank You Trev for this very good video! Sadly our coast not what it used to be in 1968, the year i was a baby lol, Yes even the North and South Coast here in Natal not what it used to be, i think if people know what we know now, they should not have allowed anyone to build at least 20 km from a surf spot😉🤙🤙
Had some yesterday but first in a long time. Water freezing after some heavy onshore winds the last month. Fishing been shite so hence very little activity unfortunately. Change of seasons here and should settle shortly👍
We destroy most of what is glorious nature with development and so destroy what was once pristine. Nature takes it back and man suffers.All this was avoidable if good policy was in place but alas in this country it's about rates and taxes.Sad.
Human destruction by clueless, ignorant and arrogant selfishness in terms of construction and development on prime beachfront property. AND human's impact doesn't stop there - the "work" started 60-70 years ago has brought us to this point, and now with the climate change we have exacerbated with our fossil fuels etc, is giving the coastline (and earth) the rest. How long will humanity still survive? Luckily I won't be around to find out
Brilliant piece of work, almost on the level of a documentary. Thanks for the effort!
Thank you love this bay.. Wish it could be saved..
Great, informative video, Treavor. It has to be both frustrating and heartbreaking for you and the other locals over the years, to have watched the officials, who thought they knew better than Mother Nature, create this disaster that seems to be coming to a head now. It truly is a shame. Thanks to you documenting what caused all of this, no one can yell "CLIMATE CHANGE". Thanks again, Treavor!!!
Great video Trev, the goose that laid the Golden Egg, shot by developers, right between the eyes...
That was an interesting watch -thanks for putting it out there-hopefully the wave survives
Hey Trevor, thanks for the great videos and update on the beach erosion.
Why did they let them build on, so close to, the beach? Completely ruined the whole vistas, natural feel of the place!
We were young guys from NZ travelling and surfing the Coast back in late 70s.. we camped in the bush down at the Point in winter 1979, we were travelling up and down the coast in a VW Kombi for 6 months, backwards and forwards between Cape Town and Durban, stopped at J Bay a few times, first time camped for a week in the Dunes bush down by the Point, second time in the Camp Ground at top of the Hill in town for 2 weeks. Other times just passing through. At the time, it was just bush and scrub down at Supertubes, all the way down the point...
Also camped at Seal Point... no one around, no houses.
went back and windsurfed at Easter 1984, with Cheron Kraak and her family.....
havent been back since 1984.
Where I have surfed for many years and have a small bolt hole is Sunset Beach Port Waikato Aotearoa NZ. there have been 3 houses demolished one ready to go and about 3 more getting very close to having to go. Its as you say the big tides coinciding with a strong swell are the heart breakers. Your shots of the rocks at St Frazncis are particularly relevant as everyone calls for "rocks' and you guys have the proof of the futility, and you just mentioned the sandbags, and what effect they have. The graduates with laptops have no chance of out smarting local surfers who have watched for so long. Thank you for posting and the work you have done. This is heartbreaking as the forces we face.
You have the odd Waikato Draught and support the Chiefs. Special part of NZ you live in. Got to surf Raglan back in 2000. Thanks for bringing back those memories.
When you dam up or eliminate natural water flow. Rivers streams creeks this is what happens. Mother Earth will reclaim it one way or the other. It seems she is pissed off. Another awesome video.👍🤙💯
Excellent video, Trevor. Very sad to see what's happened to sfb having grown up there. The knockon is showing its teeth in kini bay where I currently stay. Can try slow the erosion down, but nature's going to take its course.
A ton of work Trev. Well done man.
Hey Trevor
Thanks for these videos. I love all of them. I came to j bay in 2000 and it looked so different. The beach was beautiful and a lot of sand. Got the best rights of my life there. Was so amazing. Even surfing point was great on a big swell when the JBU was out in force at supers! It looks like that local pack may be disbanded now?
I remember going over to Bruce’s and seeing how the wave had been ruined by the development and removal of the dunes. I’m so sad to see what has happened to the sand. I live in California and we have seen even worse here in the last 50 years. I hope I can come back one day. I will look you up. I’d love to hear stories of the old days 🤟
Cheers
Still a few grumpy old farts left over from the JBU unfit and forever unhappy if they not shouting at someone in the lineup..
Cant help sad people just glad to be fit and surfing a short board and loving it when its on.. Hopefully Supers keeps firing for a few more years..
@@oceanadventures365 I agree. I’m 59 and never plan on giving up my short boards. I felt bad for you this winter when you broke your ribs. Glad you’re feeling better.
Student of Coastal and Ocean science in Queensland East Coast Aus... many beaches here suffering the same thing, alot attributed to development. Looking forward to studying it more either way!
I’ve also heard developments and the use of sand in concrete has diminished sandy areas
@@lesterma1608 It's actually an emerging global issue, sand shortages. It's not driven mainly by global warming, at least directly. Sea Level Rise and changes in oceanographic factors due to higher ocean and atmosphere temps is doing crazy things to currents, tides and sediment flows in oceans, coasts and down rivers - so it's indirect as well, but yeah easily attributed to overdevelopment in a lot of cases. Still, sad to see these beautiful beaches essentially get gouged out.
Very informative, thank you. Have noticed similar patterns in Cape Town, particularly on the West Coast. Recall sand dunes on the island at Milnerton that must have 4 to 6 meters high. This was when there were no houses on the island and only a wooden bridge as access. Late 80's early nineties. There was a ramp which ran at a gradual angle from the Lifesaving club down to the beach. It's gone ... Small Bay would be another example and I'm thinking Lands and Sandy's as well but I'll leave it to those that surf it more regularly than myself to comment. All this I think due to development on the Cape Flats and also in Hout Bay. Dunes were much bigger at one point.
never got to surf SA, my mate passed away that lived there, i live on a south coast island to the UK, our break has become quite epic and these days a kinda secret heaven , a vast improvement to when i first started..coastal erosion has made Compton ( home break) pretty epic at times..love the channel..
You are fortunate and thx!
Always edit with such lekker tunes 👌🏼👌🏼 I've pushed some for my playlist
... Wow mate that's very sad ,... I see how much the sand moves along my local coastline and regular go to places ... I've always been in awe at just how much a beach can change in 24 hours let alone weeks , months and years .
Very interesting, and a bit scary
Another case of humans loving a place to death. Those old pics really show the predicament the area is in.
Really hope some clever heads get together and come up with a solution rather than sandbagging and making things worse.
Anyhow, looking forward to getting on the water and hooking up! Tight lines Trev:)
Insane what has happened to JBay and StFrancis.
Great work here and yes the solutions the institutions come up with always seem to make them money and leave the solution part out. ❤ Your work and like you said time will tell.
Thanks for another look back before the evils of what modern society has become. A poverty of wealth!
Cool vibes 👌
PE surf is also heavily affected by this too, I remember being able to walk out at humewood without ever walking over a rock now I have to watch my step because it is only rock beneath my feet and the same is going for pipe and millers
@@kelsoblakeman3795 was sent some photos of the pipe yesterday and couldnt believe how bad it is. Will do a follow up on PE soon..
That’s why it is so important to have Conservancies- in order to have corridors to protect our wild life and endangered plants. It’s SO sad that development has been allowed to ride rough shod over our ecosystems 😢
Oom Trev! Why so quiet? We miss you!
Been no surf and weather been shite so even fishing been impossible. Be at it soon as theres some action again. Sure you dont want me talking shit for 20 minutes😁..
Disturb the longshore drift at your peril! Interrupt the sand flow and mess up the wave quality!
Exact same thing happened on the cape peninsula
That’s what happens when people build right on the beach and change the cycle of nature. It’s the same here in Florida. Sad times!!
It's ironic that barely 10 years ago one of the main issues people had with the Thyspunt nuclear power station project was that it would deposit too much sand in the bay. With hindsight one wonders if those sand deposits would've been a blessing in disguise had the project gone ahead.
And less black outs 👀
I lived in JBay in the Seventies. I cannot believe that so much development was allowed right on the foreshore. So sad. The place has been ruined.
Great stuff ,Richards Bay is going the same way.
Yip those sand bags killed the wave and the beach..
So Maitlands beach is opposite j bay, lived here my whole life, it has massive dune system, megatons of sand is gone, 1st time just past mouth of river towards blue horizon about 200m after mouth there rocks exposed way up beach, never in my life seen that, at a stage the beach all the way to the pipeline was level, I mean so level just a bit of tide pushed water all the way under the pipe, it will recover as a result of the dune system, one thing for sure it’s narly devastated… where there no dune system I think it go bad
I was also puzzled by that. I took a visiting German professor around that way 2 weeks ago and I told him in my life I have never seen rocks out that way. The sand in PE is also a problem. No sand at pipe, millers and humewood. The rocks washing up the beach at humewood reminds me of the mid 80s when mounds of rocks washed up at humewood leaving no sand on that beach. The only spot that seems to unfortunately keeping the sand is the fence. Too much sand there.
They let the dune system at Sards do its own thing. It eventually reclaimed all the bottom parking spots (where the clu house used to be). It is now busy reclaiming the parking spots at the current top parking area and the dune shape has changed drastically over the last uear or so.
Hi there, are you aware that one of your local beach bums if you knoww him, Rhinus Nel passed away of a heart attack last week. Age 42
Unfortunately yes.. Very sad..
Thank you for the updates. Its so scary how we have been distroying our beautiful world. Dec Jan 1984/5 i did pro lifesaving at Kabeljoes. My tent was in the caravan park 5 m from the sand. Id walk to town to buy my supplies. Its all changed.
Where do you think that sand has been deposited?
Gets blown up into the vegetation on other side of the bay and stays there..
I spent a few months living in St Francis a couple of years back and to answer all those who question why such rampant development was allowed, simple answer..money talks and bullshit walks!
Greed, ignorance
@marietjiehildebrandt1324 think lack of knowledge is more apt. We also built a house at St Francis so everybody contributes in some way..
All I do is replay this at Waterbrothers
Pretty sad if you look at the thumbnail pic as thats 2 years ago.. So glad we got it when it was in its prime..
Love the intro song
You dont think this cycle we are in the last 3 years are also perhaps meshingnthe beaches around. Im referring to the cycle where we have near constant east winds for nearly 7 months at a time from october to april
First el nino.. We missed 3 cycles.. Watch out for floods.. Just saying
Humewood snd Summerstrand no longer beach rocks and pebbles…
Now we know why..
Howzit Trevor, remember you and your boet Niels well. The house next to yours was owned by the Inggs of Gubb & Inggs mob in Uitenhage ...not Ingrams.
100% was a brain fart under video pressure🤣 The the ingrams had a place in Ann Ave. I picked it up but had loaded the vid already so all good as it was more about the sand 😁
They wont listen until their Castles fall into the seas. And it will happen. 😂
Sadly..
Thank You Trev for this very good video! Sadly our coast not what it used to be in 1968, the year i was a baby lol, Yes even the North and South Coast here in Natal not what it used to be, i think if people know what we know now, they should not have allowed anyone to build at least 20 km from a surf spot😉🤙🤙
How you Ballie what’s news boetie too busy surfing?!?
Had some yesterday but first in a long time. Water freezing after some heavy onshore winds the last month. Fishing been shite so hence very little activity unfortunately. Change of seasons here and should settle shortly👍
We destroy most of what is glorious nature with development and so destroy what was once pristine. Nature takes it back and man suffers.All this was avoidable if good policy was in place but alas in this country it's about rates and taxes.Sad.
Related to this google Sand Mafia.
Watched that tonight.. Same same👌
like vleesbaai-
Human destruction by clueless, ignorant and arrogant selfishness in terms of construction and development on prime beachfront property. AND human's impact doesn't stop there - the "work" started 60-70 years ago has brought us to this point, and now with the climate change we have exacerbated with our fossil fuels etc, is giving the coastline (and earth) the rest. How long will humanity still survive? Luckily I won't be around to find out
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