Carnage in the West

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wal269
wal269
WA
718 posts
WA, 718 posts
29 Nov 2012 4:20pm
Just took the dog for a walk between Brighton and Floz. I have lived in the area for 10 years and never seen carnage like this.

20 feet of sandune gone, all the beach sulo bins washed away.

Dead fish and craypots washed up onshore.

The Floz sewer pipe has had concrete stripped from in and is sticking 2 feet above the beach where it is normally burried under about 6 ft of sand.

20 ft bombs still exploding all over the place.

It is about the most unplayable and unfriendly I have ever seen it, especially because it is just about dead onshore.

I'll sit this one out!
oceanfire
oceanfire
WA
718 posts
WA, 718 posts
29 Nov 2012 4:50pm
Anything in the craypots?
Finders keepers, right?
gruezi
gruezi
WA
3464 posts
WA, 3464 posts
29 Nov 2012 4:54pm
I haven't left the house, no good for nothing this weather. Hope the swell hangs around.
niall barrett
niall barrett
WA
248 posts
WA, 248 posts
29 Nov 2012 4:56pm
All true, but the good news, a load of sand has been scoured off the beaches. We will have the best banks in decade..... in December! and the seabreeze is back saturday. It is going to be good.
gruezi
gruezi
WA
3464 posts
WA, 3464 posts
29 Nov 2012 4:59pm
Surf am, kite pm.........my kind of day.
fver
fver
WA
453 posts
WA, 453 posts
29 Nov 2012 7:07pm
niall barrett said...
All true, but the good news, a load of sand has been scoured off the beaches.


Hopefully hundreds of lost and burried boards from the past years are now floating again, to new owners...
iti
iti
QLD
417 posts
iti iti
QLD, 417 posts
29 Nov 2012 9:17pm
I watched some guys out today south of Perth not saying where but bloody awsome
eibwen
eibwen
WA
116 posts
WA, 116 posts
29 Nov 2012 7:24pm
iti said...
I watched some guys out today south of Perth not saying where but bloody awsome


I laugh at posts like this if your trying to keep some spot secrete .. the greater perth area is tiny every one with half a brain can figure out where to go with google maps just some of us might be too far away to travel ;)
Chris6791
Chris6791
WA
3271 posts
WA, 3271 posts
29 Nov 2012 7:24pm
The point at Edward Island is gone, so is another 10 feet of lawn from the windsurfer park. If anyone sees either please return them, we want them back.
Juddy
Juddy
WA
1103 posts
WA, 1103 posts
29 Nov 2012 8:03pm
^^^ pics or it didn't happen...
Chris6791
Chris6791
WA
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WA, 3271 posts
29 Nov 2012 9:43pm
Some people red-thumb the oddest things , I'll try and grab a couple of photos tomorrow Juddy. I was happy to consider driving through the water in front of Werner this afternoon to get around the corner but there was no where to park when I got there.
eppo
eppo
WA
9793 posts
WA, 9793 posts
30 Nov 2012 6:45am
Chris I think the red thumb activation is inversely proportional to their IQ. Their brain goes 'I just, ...just don't get it', and then the fight and flight stimulus response embedded in the most prehistoric part of their brain ( which accounts for most of their cognitive ability), kicks in and they involuntarily click the red thumb.
Ugly
Ugly
WA
209 posts
WA, 209 posts
30 Nov 2012 7:05am
Hove to agree with eppo once i looked up the meaning of some of the words.
There are spots out there in plan view but some of them require a larger than average set of balls and not the follow the kite in the sky mentality. O look that must be a safe spot some one is kiting there so 50 people show up.
danw
danw
WA
163 posts
WA, 163 posts
30 Nov 2012 9:45am
I got to leighton at about 12 yesterday, empty beach outside of a few joggers (good on them!) triple checked my safety, practiced my safety. Thought of what I need to do to launch/land safely and got out there.

I had a blast out there.

Skid
Skid
QLD
1499 posts
QLD, 1499 posts
30 Nov 2012 2:09pm
eppo said...
Chris I think the red thumb activation is inversely proportional to their IQ. Their brain goes 'I just, ...just don't get it', and then the fight and flight stimulus response embedded in the most prehistoric part of their brain ( which accounts for most of their cognitive ability), kicks in and they involuntarily click the red thumb.


Eppo, I green thumbed ya but the reds are winning...

"why is it that more than half the people here are below average?"
- author unkown
SugarQube
SugarQube
WA
490 posts
WA, 490 posts
30 Nov 2012 12:26pm
Chris6791 said...
The point at Edward Island is gone, so is another 10 feet of lawn from the windsurfer park. If anyone sees either please return them, we want them back.


This is not good, we are able to see the beach erosion increasing with each season, places like Lano and Wedge might be off the map in 20 years.
doggie
doggie
WA
15849 posts
WA, 15849 posts
30 Nov 2012 12:36pm
SugarQube said...
Chris6791 said...
The point at Edward Island is gone, so is another 10 feet of lawn from the windsurfer park. If anyone sees either please return them, we want them back.


This is not good, we are able to see the beach erosion increasing with each season, places like Lano and Wedge might be off the map in 20 years.


I wouldnt think so, the sand flow around there is fine. If they stuck a groin or similar then things would change. By the end of summer it will all be back.
Puetz
Puetz
NT
2186 posts
NT, 2186 posts
30 Nov 2012 2:08pm
wal269 said...

Just took the dog for a walk between Brighton and Floz. I have lived in the area for 10 years and never seen carnage like this.

20 feet of sandune gone, all the beach sulo bins washed away.

Dead fish and craypots washed up onshore.

The Floz sewer pipe has had concrete stripped from in and is sticking 2 feet above the beach where it is normally burried under about 6 ft of sand.

20 ft bombs still exploding all over the place.

It is about the most unplayable and unfriendly I have ever seen it, especially because it is just about dead onshore.

I'll sit this one out!


... oh no, the Myan calender is right, the end is nigh, its started early ,,, 7th of December is upon us!!!
SugarQube
SugarQube
WA
490 posts
WA, 490 posts
30 Nov 2012 1:08pm
doggie said...
SugarQube said...
Chris6791 said...
The point at Edward Island is gone, so is another 10 feet of lawn from the windsurfer park. If anyone sees either please return them, we want them back.


This is not good, we are able to see the beach erosion increasing with each season, places like Lano and Wedge might be off the map in 20 years.


I wouldnt think so, the sand flow around there is fine. If they stuck a groin or similar then things would change. By the end of summer it will all be back.



That would be nice, but I can show you pictures I took at Lano 1985 when cars could have parked 5 rows deap in front of Werners, now its one car deep in the water
SugarQube
SugarQube
WA
490 posts
WA, 490 posts
30 Nov 2012 1:12pm
Actually I would like to know where all the sand went, and which beaches have profited from this movement, all the beaches along the west coast are shrinking, look at the car park at Cervantes , the end was 150 from the beach, now its hanging in the air and breaking up
Ugly
Ugly
WA
209 posts
WA, 209 posts
30 Nov 2012 1:22pm
When i was a kid in the bark ages we had a beach house at Cervantes and Thirsty Point was about 400m Long and if Kiting was around it would have been the best flat water spot on the West Coast.
doggie
doggie
WA
15849 posts
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30 Nov 2012 1:27pm
SugarQube said...
doggie said...
SugarQube said...
Chris6791 said...
The point at Edward Island is gone, so is another 10 feet of lawn from the windsurfer park. If anyone sees either please return them, we want them back.


This is not good, we are able to see the beach erosion increasing with each season, places like Lano and Wedge might be off the map in 20 years.


I wouldnt think so, the sand flow around there is fine. If they stuck a groin or similar then things would change. By the end of summer it will all be back.



That would be nice, but I can show you pictures I took at Lano 1985 when cars could have parked 5 rows deap in front of Werners, now its one car deep in the water


I would like to see them Im not saying that you are wrong just that sand moves all the time, sometimes it comes back and generally does. I recon the point at Eddies will return. This storm was mad and so late in the season that the point might not be back until 2014.
The fact they built a car park on sand is just dumb anyway, erosion is always going to kill it.
Chris6791
Chris6791
WA
3271 posts
WA, 3271 posts
30 Nov 2012 6:35pm
There is a little less sacred ground now.






kkiter
kkiter
NSW
452 posts
NSW, 452 posts
1 Dec 2012 10:30am
Looks like God hates Werner as well!!!
Chris6791
Chris6791
WA
3271 posts
WA, 3271 posts
1 Dec 2012 11:13am
Werner's alright. And that park is still good for a beer and a bit of people watching after a kite
tightlines
tightlines
WA
3510 posts
WA, 3510 posts
1 Dec 2012 11:20am
How's the track down to what is left of the point Chris.
husa
husa
VIC
84 posts
VIC, 84 posts
1 Dec 2012 4:00pm
At least there's less of the infamous Lancelin seaweed. Any good surf breaks created as a result of the storm?
Chris6791
Chris6791
WA
3271 posts
WA, 3271 posts
1 Dec 2012 3:59pm
tightlines said...
How's the track down to what is left of the point Chris.


I got down it ok, wouldn't do it in a sedan though. Low tide and no storm surge and there is some point left. Give it a week and you would never know the difference. Lots of Perth crew here ATM.
Mr float
Mr float
NSW
3452 posts
NSW, 3452 posts
1 Dec 2012 9:26pm
have you guys not heard about climate change .the holes that are clearly visible from the moon in the hunter valley probably have something to do with it . According to the media hype over the last 2 days over here in the east we are suffering from an unprecedented heat wave .(really . isn't this Australia ,a hot country and its been hot for 2 days,big deal, a quiet news day perhaps. .I saw a rediculous headline that 9 people died today as a result of the heat ,not bad really considering that 401 other people died in Australia today based on averages,hardly newsworthy one would think but it sounded good according to the newswriters responsible for the 6 pm nightly news, urghhh )
oh well at least the greedy capitalists largely responsible for it will have their lovely homes on the coasts values greatly undermined heh heh
(note to moderator please feel free to end my post to heavy weather section of general discussion[}:)] )
suniboy21
suniboy21
VIC
1090 posts
VIC, 1090 posts
1 Dec 2012 9:39pm
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