EstuaryWatch Events

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Date		Details
27-07-2013		Unusual/Extraordinary occurrence! Barbara & I went to see the Inlet yesterday ¿ Saturday, and caught the tide at almost exactly High! I've attached some photos of the situation then. The estuary was still officially closed and not perched as the water just coming over the berm was incoming from the tide. A few minutes later no water came over so we believed the tide had turned. We checked the AHD at the bridge - that was 1.75m. All this was very interesting to us as we'd never seen this before. Regards Dennis Rose Herben 20130727 20130727 20130727 20130727
24-11-2013		Estuary Entrance Opening Artificial Estuary Opening 24/11/2013 I viewed the sandbar on Saturday 5pm and saw the lake perched with barely 10cm height of bar above lake level. The lake itself was the highest I have seen it. Viewing the lake again on Sunday afternoon the sand bar had been washed through with the channel approximately 2 meters below the top of the remaining bar and the creek flowing strongly. The outflow must have been very substantial at the event given the width of the erosion (into the sand dune) and the depth of the channel. It is interesting to see how a secondary sand bar has formed approximately 30 meters seaward of the original bar with the creek looping at the outflow. Upcoming analysis of the creek will be interesting given the extent of the flushing of the creek by this dramatic event. Rose Herben Artificial Opening 1 Artificial Opening 2 Artificial Opening 3 Artificial Opening 4
24-06-2014		Weather Event These photos were taken at 12.50 on Tuesday 24.6.2014 during a storm surge The berm was under water from incoming windblown sea - the tide was receding at the time. Unfortunately, my camera didn¿t take the open mouth shot and I couldn¿t see the screen properly because I was being blown about so violently by the wind! The third photo was taken from the lookout at the top of Reserve Road. Rose Herben Pp1_20140624_1_212 Pp1_20140624_3_292 Pp1_20140624_Reserve Road
30-06-2014		Weather Event see attached pics of hight tide inflow over sandbar taken at high tide (2pm) on monday 30th June on my iphone (hence the poor quality). Rose Herben Pp1_20140630 Pp1_20140630_2 Pp1_20140630_3
02-07-2014		Estuary Entrance Opening Artificial estuary opening at 1.8 AHD Rose Herben Pp1_20140702_1_212 AM Pp1_20140702_1_212 PM Pp1_20140702_1_292 AM Pp1_20140702_2_252 AM Pp1_20140702_2_252 PM Pp1_20140702_3_292 PM
11-07-2014		Estuary Entrance Closure I took these photos at about 12.30 today. There are 3 of the usual sites plus one from Inlet Crescent looking out through the mouth. I didn't walk down to the Inlet to check there was no water running out on the lighthouse side, but i asked some people who had just walked up and they said there was no channel going out, but they thought the sea maybe running over the berm, so dare I ask, is that perched or not?!!!! In addiction I took a zoom photo of the Fairhaven side sand dune where several people were sliding etc. I will speak to Gorcc and send them the photo as well as to you, and ask that they could fence it off,as high priority. It is in their Management plan to do so. Rose Herben Pp1_20140702_dune erosion Pp1_20140702_Inlet cresent Pp1_20140711_1_212 Pp1_20140711_2_252 Pp1_20140711_3_292
25-07-2014		Estuary Entrance Opening Estuary artificially opened 2.00 AHD Rose Herben Estuary opening Estuary opening 2 Estuary opening 3
01-08-2014		Estuary Entrance Opening Emergency artificial opening conducted by Surf Coast Shire 4:30pm 2.00 AHD. Rose Herben Painkalac Creek 1 Painkalac Creek 2 Painkalac Creek 3 Painkalac Creek 4
23-09-2014		Estuary Entrance Opening Here are some photos of changes to the Painkalac mouth over the last few days. Last night¿s thunderstorm dumped about 13mm rain here - just enough to open it as the berm was pretty low.. The AHD readings were 20.8.14 - 1.60m @14.50 hrs 23.8.14 - 1.66m@ 13.15 hrs 24.8.14 - 1.00m @ 11.45hrs. Just before midday today, the river water was still flowing out when the tide had just changed (HT 10.56hrs). Regards Dennis Rose Herben 20.8.14 - 1.60m @14.50 hrs 23.8.14 - 1.66m@ 13.15 hrs 24.8.14 - 1.00m @ 11.45hrs
04-12-2014		Community Event Rose and Belinda caught up for a coffee to go through some training on data entry. Had a delicious lemon slice. Belinda Sharrock