We had an East Coast low in June and 2016 in Sydney. It scoured away dunes and undermined many houses on the beachfront. I personally don’t think it’s been the same since.
Trevor, maybe after Dennis you can do a series of interviews of the old timers who are still cruising the streets who have stories to tell. Warren, the sawyers etc etc.
I am glad I surfed there in 1970, around July. I think they stopped the camping at the point area so they could develop the area. What a great fuck up, that was.
Was there in 1970, no houses in the primary dunes,should have stayed that way and been made a world heritage surf reserve....easy to say now...ahh well.....
Greased palms didn't want a reserve. No property tax revenue. I'm in SoCal and a huge expanse of coastal land which could have been an immense park for everyone was instead built up with 1000 homes. I was in NSW in 1979 and the drive north from Sydney was delightful. It was in their winter and off season but dang, next to no traffic, no freeways or tollways and heaps of undeveloped coastal land. The caravan parks were immaculate and cheap especially split 3-ways. Byron Bay was a small hippie town with one barber. It sucks aging but we had it good.
All the beaches are eroding, sandbags or not. In Paradise Beach the dunes are receding big time and the dunes are v steep.. weather events are more radical and the sea levels are rising space.
16:21 vs. 16:27 WOW! Look how the sand level has dropped! The same thing but even worse has happened to Kings Beach in PE. The sand dunes now have a 2-3 meter high VERTICAL face, like a sheer cliff. The property in these areas will soon be part of the high tide level?
Hey Trev it's the same beach erosion in PE. Dennis is a legend and his boards are so well made... Check his tribute to my old man Vaughan Jones in his shop. Jonesy
Good morning Trevor Yer that's really not looking to good. The sea will take back and reclaim what we've taken from it and have developed to what we can see in the video . Yer a few year's it will not be recognisable. I guess the government will step in and will then start building flood defences and that coast line will not be recognisable ☹️ I can't believe your selling that Beautiful house... but hay as you get older it's hard to keep on top of everything. It's better to have some finance in your bank to enjoy life .🏴🏴👍🍻
@oceanadventures365 yes of course it's the same us in wales uk 5 bed house a few years we will only 2 as my children are growing up and leaving very quickly. We only have our oldest lad left home now the other too have gone . Then it will be very quiet here . 👍🏴
Good to hear from you. Does the loss of so much of the beach mean its going to be further to the break? And is there any hope that any of the sand might return next season? Thanks
Selling the pad mate, i hope prices are good there, the prices of housing in this country are beyond ridiculous. My father bought our old house back in the late 60s for 9 grand, it sold recently for 1,7 mil. Granted it had a new kitchen and been done up somewhat, but it was still our old house essentially.
Been in our house since 89 and its been such a good home. Unfortunately the kids are grown up and its just way too big for us now. Time to scale down and build a pad with good views and one level for the codger days ahead😅
Didn't home construction hinder sand from the former dunes that were there? On the other side of the world Scorpion Bay in Central Baja has been completely denuded of sand for many years now. When I went there in 1987 you could play softball on the beach.
besides the sand bags is the sand eroding because of something else... bigger swells, different directions? are the bags the problem or are they just contributing to the issue caused by environmental changes
As an Ex.Dirtbinite ( Now living in Seal Point / CSF ) who observed decades of central-beaches erosion as the Harbour-Breakwaters were repeatedly extended; thus interrupting the natural South-to-North : Littoral Current sand deposition .... And taking on your mentioned Richards Bay comment - Unless a longterm; constant and committed REPLENISHING source is established as a primary integral part of a the St. Francis Bay beach rehabilitation program; the proposed installation of Groynes are surely gonna be an expensive WASTE of time ! When Durban's Sand-Slurry Pumping program ( As designed in conjunctuon with the * See-Through * Piled Piers ) was abruptly brought to a short-notice termination by the then SA Railways + Harbours; Durban's beaches immediately began to disappear ! Be VERY wary of * Snake Oil * Carpet-Baggers who offer up such solutions; being in direct contradiction to the known and respected relentless power of the ocean .... ! 😡💩🪰🖕🌊
The biggest mistake that people with money were allowed to build there houses on the beach. So if it washes away it are there problem. Every one got the right of the beach, now they want to make it a private beach for them selfs. Even the owners on Kabiljo river. You can't buy some part of a natural river.
When you can visibly see the Maitlands dune has got smaller then you must know bru… the medium dune that use to be off the bottom by the river mouth is gone.. 200m up from river mouth there is massive rock shelf that’s now exposed and that beach got no construction on it, dune system in tact, so I can tell you don’t look good for j bay man 🥺
Greetings Trev!!! Missed ya. Thanks for the update even though it is so sad. Good to have you back.
Thanks good to be back.. 👍
Morning, Nice to have you back.
Missed your updates.
@@stevenstap3145 🙏
Thanks for the videos ... from here in Florida
Welcome back…time for a couple of Balance deliveries! Thanks, Andrew
Thanks! Unfortunately they doing in house deliveries now..
Larry and Rosemary - hotbuttered - more memories great video as always Trevor
Hey Mike thanks!
That's nature...constantly changing.
Sand wlll come back
There's always hope but it may be very unrealistic..
We had an East Coast low in June and 2016 in Sydney. It scoured away dunes and undermined many houses on the beachfront. I personally don’t think it’s been the same since.
Trevor, maybe after Dennis you can do a series of interviews of the old timers who are still cruising the streets who have stories to tell. Warren, the sawyers etc etc.
Welcome back 🌊🏄♀️🌞
I am glad I surfed there in 1970, around July. I think they stopped the camping at the point area so they could develop the area.
What a great fuck up, that was.
Hindsight is always a perfect science. Think we all contributed to this in some way so its not a blame game just wish we had known more back then..
Was there in 1970, no houses in the primary dunes,should have stayed that way and been made a world heritage surf reserve....easy to say now...ahh well.....
What belongs to nature will be taken. Privilege of a few will be swallowed one day
Greased palms didn't want a reserve. No property tax revenue. I'm in SoCal and a huge expanse of coastal land which could have been an immense park for everyone was instead built up with 1000 homes. I was in NSW in 1979 and the drive north from Sydney was delightful. It was in their winter and off season but dang, next to no traffic, no freeways or tollways and heaps of undeveloped coastal land. The caravan parks were immaculate and cheap especially split 3-ways. Byron Bay was a small hippie town with one barber. It sucks aging but we had it good.
Maybe the sand has moved to Australia as well.
@PaulTarbotton-s7q 🤣
All the beaches are eroding, sandbags or not. In Paradise Beach the dunes are receding big time and the dunes are v steep.. weather events are more radical and the sea levels are rising space.
16:21 vs. 16:27 WOW! Look how the sand level has dropped! The same thing but even worse has happened to Kings Beach in PE. The sand dunes now have a 2-3 meter high VERTICAL face, like a sheer cliff. The property in these areas will soon be part of the high tide level?
Hey Trev it's the same beach erosion in PE. Dennis is a legend and his boards are so well made... Check his tribute to my old man Vaughan Jones in his shop. Jonesy
Good morning Trevor
Yer that's really not looking to good. The sea will take back and reclaim what we've taken from it and have developed to what we can see in the video . Yer a few year's it will not be recognisable. I guess the government will step in and will then start building flood defences and that coast line will not be recognisable ☹️
I can't believe your selling that Beautiful house... but hay as you get older it's hard to keep on top of everything. It's better to have some finance in your bank to enjoy life .🏴🏴👍🍻
Time waits for no one for sure. Going to be very sad leaving here as its been 33 good years and we lkve the place.. Its just too big😁
@oceanadventures365 yes of course it's the same us in wales uk 5 bed house a few years we will only 2 as my children are growing up and leaving very quickly. We only have our oldest lad left home now the other too have gone . Then it will be very quiet here . 👍🏴
The whole coast line of south africa ihas changed because of these storms. Sand bags or not. Its hectic mate.
Good to hear from you. Does the loss of so much of the beach mean its going to be further to the break? And is there any hope that any of the sand might return next season? Thanks
Definitely going to affect the break. Zero chance of sand return..
Selling the pad mate, i hope prices are good there, the prices of housing in this country are beyond ridiculous. My father bought our old house back in the late 60s for 9 grand, it sold recently for 1,7 mil. Granted it had a new kitchen and been done up somewhat, but it was still our old house essentially.
Been in our house since 89 and its been such a good home. Unfortunately the kids are grown up and its just way too big for us now. Time to scale down and build a pad with good views and one level for the codger days ahead😅
@@oceanadventures365 Where does everyone work to pay a mortgage that high?
@@davidanderson8469 lot of retired or made people.. Very little work here unless you own a business and they are mostly small..
Place sandbags more parallel to beach to trap sand? Bigger bag sausages?
Seen some of that in the states but you need to have sand replenishment.. We dont
Don't stress, all those houses along the dunes will one day be reclaimed by the ocean and the beach will be restored.
@@TheRadRingo still sad all round..
Great stuff. Sad but true.
You are back.
Been a tough few weeks.. Need some action😁
Its a sad sight, used to have beautiful beaches
Didn't home construction hinder sand from the former dunes that were there? On the other side of the world Scorpion Bay in Central Baja has been completely denuded of sand for many years now. When I went there in 1987 you could play softball on the beach.
Yip bulldozed forward to level property..
Don’t build in a zone that is continually dynamic. Rich people are as equally stupid to live right on the water.
In Oregon state when people's homes are in danger no erosion efforts are allowed. The home simply vanishes into the sea as it should.
Thanks
We got Klapped stikkend by that weather system off South Madagascar last week. Took on some structural damage to stb hull.
Eish sorry to hear hope all safe now... ✌️
besides the sand bags is the sand eroding because of something else... bigger swells, different directions? are the bags the problem or are they just contributing to the issue caused by environmental changes
Correct they buy time for the houses but they speed up the erosion. You need a natural slope to dissipate the wave energy..
Gorgeous
Where does the sand go to, must be a buildup somewhere ?
Definitely not on the beaches?
Into the cement?
Those sandbags only speed up the water flow and increase the speed of erosion. Short term knee jerk reaction solution imo.
Ya bra we know this but if I owned a house on the beach..
As an Ex.Dirtbinite ( Now living in Seal Point / CSF ) who observed decades of central-beaches erosion as the Harbour-Breakwaters were repeatedly extended; thus interrupting the natural South-to-North : Littoral Current sand deposition .... And taking on your mentioned Richards Bay comment - Unless a longterm; constant and committed REPLENISHING source is established as a primary integral part of a the St. Francis Bay beach rehabilitation program; the proposed installation of Groynes are surely gonna be an expensive WASTE of time ! When Durban's Sand-Slurry Pumping program ( As designed in conjunctuon with the * See-Through * Piled Piers ) was abruptly brought to a short-notice termination by the then SA Railways + Harbours; Durban's beaches immediately began to disappear ! Be VERY wary of * Snake Oil * Carpet-Baggers who offer up such solutions; being in direct contradiction to the known and respected relentless power of the ocean .... ! 😡💩🪰🖕🌊
Seems like we as humans has helped the erosion which is a natural process?
The biggest mistake that people with money were allowed to build there houses on the beach. So if it washes away it are there problem. Every one got the right of the beach, now they want to make it a private beach for them selfs. Even the owners on Kabiljo river. You can't buy some part of a natural river.
Sand smuggling, mankind's 3rd largest industry...
Haha. Right behind rum running in the past.
When you can visibly see the Maitlands dune has got smaller then you must know bru… the medium dune that use to be off the bottom by the river mouth is gone.. 200m up from river mouth there is massive rock shelf that’s now exposed and that beach got no construction on it, dune system in tact, so I can tell you don’t look good for j bay man 🥺
humans bad😢
Jirrr welcome back ballie, got worried for a bit
Thanks been too long..