EstuaryWatch Data Portal

Cody White; age 8 assisted with monitoring & reporting.

Estuary appears to have been artificially opened.

State recorded as "Perched".  Although observation was only half an hour after high tide; there was no flow present at that time, but clearly there had been recent flow, and the "berm" was effectively a moist sand watercourse.

The mouth is open at high tide with the ocean overtopping the berm. At low tide the mouth was closed with the berm being 0.3m above both the sea and the estuary and 65m in length. The water level rose from 1.72m at 9.30 to 1.74 at 16.55

The estuary opening and flow was at the extreme eastern end of the inlet and hard up against the cliff face.

Quite heavy rain overnight >16mm

Summer holidays, so lots of visitors on the beach

Estuary open

Estuary is open, so no berm measurement taken.

Estuary had been artificially opened during the week.

Still open and no berm measurement taken.

Signs that waves have washed overb the berm and into the estuary.

Unable to do photopoint & berm measurement at preferred time of hightide: 17:20.  However there is little variation between high and low tide on this day.

I've noted Mouth State as "Perched" (?)

The berm is present with breaking waves washing over and into the estuary.

The mouth is in it's natural state with recent intervention or "un-natural" opening.