Honeymoon Island has split into two islands

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  • Опубликовано: 19 апр 2024
  • There are a lot of places to explore inside Honeymoon Island State Park. But now it’s a little more challenging to get to some spots. Paul Paxon and his wife Denise brought their kayaks here to see the changes.

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  • @jonmacdonald5345
    @jonmacdonald5345 20 дней назад +690

    Divorce island now!

  • @MelanesianRyce-zu2wm
    @MelanesianRyce-zu2wm 20 дней назад +338

    Guess the honeymoon's over..

  • @danlowe8684
    @danlowe8684 20 дней назад +216

    Honeymoon Island is a state beach park located in Dunedin, Pinellas County on the southwest coast of Florida. It is the highest attended beach state park in Florida. A portion of the island was artificially constructed with material mined from offshore in the 1960's, and the park has had a chronic erosion problem along the gulf coast shoreline ever since. In 1989, the Park Service placed 230,000 cy of sand along the beach front to restore the beach and protect the parking facilities, but the sand washed away in less than 2 years.

    • @ojaftertoothpaste7174
      @ojaftertoothpaste7174 20 дней назад +40

      Thanks for the backstory

    • @mollylittlewolf9192
      @mollylittlewolf9192 20 дней назад +25

      Thank you. That explains it.

    • @Unfluencer
      @Unfluencer 20 дней назад +51

      thanks for providing the story that the news channel failed miserably at.

    • @atatterson6992
      @atatterson6992 20 дней назад +37

      And the woman interviewed acts like climate change is at fault... it never ends

    • @guybeingaguy
      @guybeingaguy 19 дней назад +14

      @@atatterson6992 She literally wants to fight Mother Nature

  • @davemanone3661
    @davemanone3661 20 дней назад +98

    Let nature do it's thing and leave it alone, just enjoy it!

    • @bobwoods1302
      @bobwoods1302 19 дней назад

      "Let nature do it's thing"? We are incapable of that. We love oil and garbage too much

  • @davidcarmack5074
    @davidcarmack5074 18 дней назад +27

    One island for the bride, one island for the groom, sounds like a perfect honeymoon.

  • @davidthaler7018
    @davidthaler7018 20 дней назад +51

    So one is called Honey island and the other is Moon Island?

  • @user-dw1ls3rp1l
    @user-dw1ls3rp1l 20 дней назад +38

    Even nature loves metaphors.

  • @size-matters
    @size-matters 20 дней назад +71

    Nature has changed those islands for eternity. Why would you want to fix it when it’s not broken?

    • @Hayyyward
      @Hayyyward 20 дней назад +21

      Exactly. It's not "damage". Too many people feel they have to control everything instead of just letting nature be.

    • @mechellerene
      @mechellerene 20 дней назад +3

      Agree

    • @mechellerene
      @mechellerene 20 дней назад +6

      @@Hayyyward 100%

    • @timg2973
      @timg2973 20 дней назад +1

      she must work for the government.

    • @kbrown5218
      @kbrown5218 19 дней назад +2

      Heck that might be a new great fishing spot😊

  • @noodengr3three825
    @noodengr3three825 20 дней назад +59

    Sand barrier islands have always shifted and always will. We adapt .

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 18 дней назад +1

      Islands shift, roads and property do not. Florida is going to lose at least $100 billion in property in the next decade.

    • @thievingpanda
      @thievingpanda 18 дней назад +6

      ​@@sentientflower7891 bahaha according to Al Gore my house was supposed to be underwater by 2015. Guess what? It couldn't be drier!

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 18 дней назад +1

      @@thievingpanda Al Gore visited your house?

    • @thievingpanda
      @thievingpanda 18 дней назад +2

      @@sentientflower7891 You know it!

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 18 дней назад

      @@thievingpanda did you ask Rush Limbaugh about cigars causing cancer? He denied it until he died by it.

  • @dank2265
    @dank2265 19 дней назад +12

    I lived in Florida for 10 years and it always amazed me at how many people dont understand that the state is like 50% sandbar, and sandbars wash away , so lets pay a premium to live on one.

  • @bobloblaw9679
    @bobloblaw9679 20 дней назад +29

    ...and both islands used to be connected to another island before a storm in the '30s separated them. things change.

    • @mechellerene
      @mechellerene 20 дней назад +13

      1921 Hurricane created Hurricane Pass that split Hog Island in two - renamed Honeymoon & Caladesi Islands

  • @mechellerene
    @mechellerene 20 дней назад +46

    Heading out on our boat to see this tomorrow. We've been watching how the island has been changing since Idalia & Nicole. Very cool. Nature is BOSS.

    • @atatterson6992
      @atatterson6992 20 дней назад +2

      And the lady interviewed acts like humans did it... amazing

    • @jonathanshumpert9549
      @jonathanshumpert9549 18 дней назад +2

      @@atatterson6992 I thought the same thing. Nature creates and destroys barrier islands. Thats how they form and that is how they end. That lady seems to think we should try to stop natural erosion from happening.

  • @bbrcummins1984
    @bbrcummins1984 20 дней назад +42

    This island was absolutely beautiful 60 years ago

    • @marilynwaaldijk_howell1320
      @marilynwaaldijk_howell1320 20 дней назад +3

      Like I was saying ,..."A WARNING FROM MOTHER NATURE",.!!!!!‼️
      ..🤔🥺😲😳😢🙏👮💯🎀.

    • @aerialcombat
      @aerialcombat 20 дней назад +1

      how was it different?

    • @mechellerene
      @mechellerene 20 дней назад +5

      It still is. Absolutely gorgeous.

    • @brianjacobs3102
      @brianjacobs3102 11 дней назад +1

      Yeah, wasn't everything better 60 years ago.

  • @sailcatthecat972
    @sailcatthecat972 20 дней назад +76

    Lunatic fringy thinks you can stop mother nature and the sea.

    • @FLoridaGulfCoast727
      @FLoridaGulfCoast727 20 дней назад +6

      Spot on

    • @ericargento4429
      @ericargento4429 19 дней назад +7

      No need for name calling , do you really feel better , calmer and happier by negative feelings and comments toward others ?

    • @sailcatthecat972
      @sailcatthecat972 19 дней назад +6

      @@ericargento4429 if the shoe fits...

    • @petermoss4824
      @petermoss4824 18 дней назад +1

      Yeah, I want to see Dunedin try to fix this one. They have tried before

    • @t-dog8528
      @t-dog8528 18 дней назад

      ​@@ericargento4429seriously? Watch that next high tide kazza

  • @annietang3780
    @annietang3780 20 дней назад +26

    We are not the center of the world: Respect the force of nature. Let nature be, nothing to be repaired.

  • @MrGriff305
    @MrGriff305 19 дней назад +12

    Even as a Floridian, I had no idea that this was Florida because the "news" story didn't bother to say. She then said INTERcoastal. Can someone please verify that that's a thing and that it exists on the west coast of Florida?

    • @BlueTigerRunning
      @BlueTigerRunning 19 дней назад

      Honeymoon island is located off the coast of Dunedin. Crazy it's been split in two now. I haven't been there in years.

    • @zafnor
      @zafnor 19 дней назад +1

      Intercoastal is the waterway that exist between barrier islands and the main coast in the Tampa Bay area. Looking up the term I found it was called INTRAcoastal, but from living in the area I've heard it called INTERcoastal. The barrier islands extend from the Tampa Bay area south to the Everglades.

    • @AlphaMale_1
      @AlphaMale_1 18 дней назад +2

      Unwise people call it INTER coastal, but along the West Coast of Florida it's INTRACOASTAL. Sadly, she is wrong again, as the body of water to the east of Honeymoon Island is St Johns Sound..

    • @thomasmcneill3062
      @thomasmcneill3062 17 дней назад +1

      It is actually St. Joeseph Sound

  • @davidhoffmann6771
    @davidhoffmann6771 20 дней назад +27

    This has opened and closed in the past

    • @mechellerene
      @mechellerene 20 дней назад +5

      It will be interesting to watch over the coming months.

  • @angelgarcia1025
    @angelgarcia1025 20 дней назад +17

    So effectively - they're "divorced " Island now.......

  • @atatterson6992
    @atatterson6992 20 дней назад +29

    No Sweetheart, nature's gonna do whatever it wants... we have NO say in the matter.

    • @MrGriff305
      @MrGriff305 19 дней назад +1

      So many fossil fuel bots want everyone to know this sea level rise is "nature"

  • @lennyray42
    @lennyray42 20 дней назад +12

    It’s just doing what it’s always done. That island was created the same way it’s being destroyed…

  • @brisvegas859
    @brisvegas859 19 дней назад +6

    Water knows no boundaries.

  • @dr.winstonsmith
    @dr.winstonsmith 20 дней назад +7

    Prophetic for couples

  • @gonefishing3644
    @gonefishing3644 19 дней назад +4

    The ocean builds up or erodes sand bars and barrier islands during storms -- even those barrier islands with vegetation. Respect the power of Mother Nature and her oceans. Never build an ocean view home too close to the shore.

  • @timbrown8038
    @timbrown8038 20 дней назад +6

    It's legally separated.

  • @thadcalvert7466
    @thadcalvert7466 11 дней назад +1

    I live in Dunedin, and this is a beautiful place to visit!

  • @slickjohnc1
    @slickjohnc1 19 дней назад +4

    This is exactly how Hurricane Pass was formed.

  • @mwmccann3734
    @mwmccann3734 19 дней назад +1

    Is this like 18 years old? If I recall, the island was breached following hurricane Jeanne. Made a great fishing spot on the inside.

  • @cannonfodder4812
    @cannonfodder4812 19 дней назад +1

    Storm damage like this is quite common, the island is just a sand bar. It will eventually close up on its own.
    South padre island in texas gets cut up by hurricanes and the cuts fill themselves in pretty regularly.

  • @piratepete842
    @piratepete842 19 дней назад +1

    Of interest..off shore of honey moon and caladesi is the site of a quarry utilized by prehistoric people for lithic manufacturing..known by some as caladesi chert it has black and blue hues..this material and items made from it have been recovered from coastal and upland sites..during the iceage and up to that time when rising sea levels inundated the site..it was one of several quarry locations used by group's in the bay area

  • @odatopt
    @odatopt 8 дней назад +1

    Yeah, that's right the island honeymoon is over, each took a half however, I have a feeling they may build a bridge to save the relationship.

  • @katjones2781
    @katjones2781 19 дней назад +4

    You can't keep it from changing this is the planet Earth and things change everyday. I grew up on this beach and I'm 62 years old and I've seen it changed over the years and that's how it just is in Mother Nature . Climate change is another reason

  • @Jen-rose76
    @Jen-rose76 10 дней назад

    Soon Florida will be all under water!! Mother Nature is taking her Planet Back!! ❤

  • @gimpygardner3377
    @gimpygardner3377 20 дней назад +3

    His and hers islands... The perfect marriage.

  • @dr.baljitkaur3988
    @dr.baljitkaur3988 8 дней назад +1

    Now the honey island has it's OWN moon

  • @TameraJacobs
    @TameraJacobs 20 дней назад +2

    So they need to change the name to the Honeymoon Islands. I suggest building a couple of ferry stations, which can take you back and forth at high tide.

    • @Joe_joe34
      @Joe_joe34 19 дней назад

      Wow that's very cool, did you just think of that?

  • @zoecunningham3019
    @zoecunningham3019 20 дней назад +27

    This occurrence is nature. Lands have altered since the beginning. A waste to spend any money in attempt to "fix" would be feeble effort

  • @hayleysroom
    @hayleysroom 3 дня назад +1

    Are those dolphins at 00:35? Such a scenic backdrop 😍

  • @MonicaFlorida
    @MonicaFlorida 19 дней назад

    What is the kayaker wearing around his neck? Phone? Some tracking device?

  • @dennisenright9347
    @dennisenright9347 5 дней назад

    Was there a pre-nup to determine who got what after the honeymoon was over?

  • @ep2223
    @ep2223 20 дней назад +28

    Nothing like people who think they can defy mother nature. "Let"s do something before we loose it!" Is that what ecology is all about? Save the world from people who want to save the world!!!!!

    • @robdemeer9008
      @robdemeer9008 19 дней назад

      Exactly! People are always complaining that humans are changing the world and ruining it, then when nature changes the world, people want to try and stop nature, pick a side

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 18 дней назад

      Try reading books.

    • @ep2223
      @ep2223 18 дней назад

      @@sentientflower7891 Just because it's in a book doesn't make it fact based on long term world data.

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 18 дней назад

      @@ep2223 education works. Try it for once.

    • @ep2223
      @ep2223 18 дней назад

      @@sentientflower7891 I read more than you know. That's why I can critically think and choose for myself. Control and manipulation of our world is a result of mans pride. Look in the mirror before you judge.

  • @MrOptimusheath
    @MrOptimusheath 20 дней назад +3

    This is why I never got married 🤣

  • @sarcasmunlimited1570
    @sarcasmunlimited1570 7 дней назад

    Were the Honeymooners separated, one on each island?

  • @loudfast1261
    @loudfast1261 20 дней назад +2

    Been watching this happen since last July,at first it was a channel at high tide about four feet wide. Started after the last hurricane came through. Posted about it on social media back then fwiw.

  • @leftfinned
    @leftfinned 10 дней назад

    Hurricane Michael cut through the Cape San Blas state park. It’s filling in slowly but still unable to reopen the majority of the parks camping and hiking areas. It had an unexpected and huge benefit to local sea turtle population though. In the colder winters sea turtles who have gone into the shallow bay to eat get trapped by the shallow water getting too cold too quickly and there is only one way out which is to go completely around the tip of the cape… by the time they are “cold stunned” they simply can’t make the journey back to deeper warmer waters. When the cut was produced after the hurricane every winter following saw a deeply significant drop in number of sea turtles that became cold stunned as they were able to get themselves to safety through the newly formed cut in the cape. I wish people realized how many hundreds of sea turtles this has helped over the last 5 years and would work to keep it open for them. As soon as it fills in the state park and camping can reopen as soon as new road is done. A small bridge would allow the state to make their money, allow people to still experience the beautiful nature and camping opportunities, AND still allow sea turtles to help themselves to deeper warmer waters in the coldest times. When cold stun events happens prior to Michael - hundreds and occasionally thousands of sea turtles would require human intervention to be removed from the bay. They go in literal piles of turtles to be rehabilitated, or die. Sad. 😢

  • @maxmotors9497
    @maxmotors9497 18 дней назад +2

    You can’t stop Mother Nature.

  • @snowmiaow
    @snowmiaow 18 дней назад

    Are the mangroves OK?

  • @aloha4ever1
    @aloha4ever1 15 дней назад

    One of my favorite places to bring my dog.

  • @dastrnad
    @dastrnad 19 дней назад

    Someone please enlighten me. Was that a beeper hanging from the cord around that man’s neck?

  • @AllieThePrettyGator
    @AllieThePrettyGator 9 дней назад

    Wdym stranded the nearest road access is on the far north and far south of the island respectivly

  • @greggreg2263
    @greggreg2263 20 дней назад +8

    Sera sera

  • @billmadison2032
    @billmadison2032 19 дней назад +2

    These are all barrier islands and are subject to the weather

  • @MadScientyst
    @MadScientyst 7 дней назад

    That Hurricane caused a 'divorce'...Honeymoon's OVER!! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @viniciusbrand4742
    @viniciusbrand4742 День назад

    Here in Brazil we have Honey Island (Ilha do Mel) that was also divided in two!

  • @danielwaynemiller
    @danielwaynemiller 2 дня назад

    Can't wait for the Divorce Court episode to drop

  • @treefarm3288
    @treefarm3288 18 дней назад

    Looks warm for Dunedin, South Island, NZ. Possibly another country?

    • @llofdarkwater9152
      @llofdarkwater9152 12 дней назад

      Dunedin, Florida, U.S. Sister city to Dunedin, Scotland.

  • @xrayron1
    @xrayron1 18 дней назад +1

    Absolutely no riptide would happen at that spot.

  • @mikeyh0
    @mikeyh0 19 дней назад +1

    This affects me about as much a driver getting a speeding ticket in Paris.

  • @robertgore8911
    @robertgore8911 19 дней назад +2

    It's a barrier island and they change constantly. Caladesi island on the north end of Clearwater Beach used to do the same thing.I know,I grew up there and fished that area constantly. Look out for rattlesnakes on caladesi Island as well,it's infested.

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 18 дней назад

      Clearwater Beach to Ft. DeSoto Park are all barrier islands and the beaches are all disappearing and soon those properties will be in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • @Pinkorchid72
    @Pinkorchid72 20 дней назад +2

    The honeymoon is over!

  • @peterodz007
    @peterodz007 20 дней назад +5

    Sand banks.not so as an island.

  • @heisrisen7961
    @heisrisen7961 20 дней назад

    Looks like the honeymoon is over!!

  • @timjones8184
    @timjones8184 10 дней назад

    Looks like a nice fishing spot. 😂

  • @dillinpicklesworth5698
    @dillinpicklesworth5698 17 дней назад

    That gives me hope that California will do the same. 😁

  • @AstinzWorld
    @AstinzWorld 8 дней назад

    Are there sharks in this water?

  • @MLandPRO77
    @MLandPRO77 19 дней назад +1

    Wow!

  • @grahamnancledra7036
    @grahamnancledra7036 6 дней назад

    Where the hell is it?

  • @adventurecoalition3690
    @adventurecoalition3690 19 дней назад

    Nature is awesome

  • @romad357
    @romad357 20 дней назад +1

    Hopefully it is only a "trial (temporary) separation".

  • @yourworldexplorer1
    @yourworldexplorer1 3 дня назад

    That is great for the biodiversity of the estuaries. They need that clean, oxygenated ocean water to thrive.

  • @qualicumwilson5168
    @qualicumwilson5168 8 дней назад

    Maybe if you get rid of those groins and off shore wavebreakers the sand would continue along the coast and patch up the divorce in Honeymoon Island.

  • @evilydal
    @evilydal 9 дней назад

    No Man's an island: Hold my beer

  • @TheHouseboat1
    @TheHouseboat1 10 дней назад

    Would have been nice you know where this actually is. Having lived in Florida I know but most people on You Tube would never know.

  • @evonne315
    @evonne315 19 дней назад +1

    You gotta let it change.

  • @CEOkiller
    @CEOkiller 20 дней назад +1

    The Honeymoon is over!

  • @arfriedman4577
    @arfriedman4577 13 дней назад

    I dont know this place. Very interesting what happened.

  • @cocolocoflow
    @cocolocoflow 20 дней назад +1

    Mother Nature wanted a split.

  • @NUKEzx10r
    @NUKEzx10r 13 дней назад +2

    Who knew the world could be a dangerous place?

  • @merissacarlisle8043
    @merissacarlisle8043 12 дней назад

    His and Hers?

  • @Tewthpaste
    @Tewthpaste 19 дней назад +1

    *nothing last forever kids, nothing last forever.* 🤣

  • @roguephoenix
    @roguephoenix 6 часов назад

    honeymoon is over. they've split. not sure if it's an amicable separation

  • @vulcan2882
    @vulcan2882 20 дней назад +1

    I guess the Honeymoon is now over.

  • @lindaterrell5535
    @lindaterrell5535 11 дней назад

    Hurricane Pass is named for the storm that formed it.

  • @jhariette
    @jhariette 13 дней назад

    done and over!

  • @phillippitts6294
    @phillippitts6294 16 дней назад

    Mother Nature is a harsh taskmaster

  • @boosysurfs2bfree
    @boosysurfs2bfree 19 дней назад

    She took half! Honeymoon is over.

  • @MD-zm6sn
    @MD-zm6sn 9 дней назад

    Barely remember the story but I think people said hurricane Camille did that in 69 to an islane that might be bigger idk.

  • @lokesh303101
    @lokesh303101 19 дней назад

    Split in two Islands!

  • @vidalott
    @vidalott 19 дней назад

    It’s only a public split.
    In reality, they are still very much together.

  • @RamsBereit
    @RamsBereit 19 дней назад +1

    Unfortunately, we decided to part ways 😪

  • @nealaskme6272
    @nealaskme6272 19 дней назад

    lol…….its the way of the island saying….get off of me, you’re done !!!

  • @alexandermtweve2578
    @alexandermtweve2578 2 дня назад

    They are now 'honey' and 'moon' islands

  • @pawwalton2157
    @pawwalton2157 15 дней назад

    Even Honeymoon Island is separated.

  • @jimkhana007
    @jimkhana007 6 дней назад

    Sounds about right… 🤷‍♂️

  • @user-rj5tn5kh9j
    @user-rj5tn5kh9j 20 дней назад +6

    Give it 2 years it will fill back on its own

  • @AbsurdBear
    @AbsurdBear 18 дней назад

    0:35 Sh-sh-sh-SHARK!

  • @RLB52
    @RLB52 18 дней назад

    Lots eagles there.

  • @vickieallsopp137
    @vickieallsopp137 19 дней назад

    Things are so rough that even islands are splitting up! Wonder how much that divorce cost!?🤪

  • @MonicaFlorida
    @MonicaFlorida 19 дней назад

    If they don’t fix it, I hope they put up warning signs.

  • @dikoman516
    @dikoman516 8 дней назад +1

    To the white hat ledy: Mam, if you didn't know nature is always changing and there's nothing wrong with that, relax.

  • @joesmith7427
    @joesmith7427 19 дней назад

    What type of insurance do you carry to protect you from your sand washing away???
    Flood insurance-No!!
    Fire insurance?? NO
    😂