Wilson Inlet Bar Scenery
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- čas přidán 24. 11. 2023
- Nullaki (Wilson Inlet) on the south coast of Western Australia lies between Albany and Denmark is opened manually on an annual basis for estuary health and to prevent flooding of low-lying areas. This video documents trenching operations in 2020 and the spectacular flow 24 hours later when the channel had widened to over 100m in width. Department of Water and Environmental Regulation videos document the opening of the bar operations and the flow since 2017.
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That man is living the childhood dream of digging up a beach with an excavator.
This comment nearly made me tear up. I'm nearly 50.
Интересно, сколько времени у него ушло, чтобы уговорить местные власти осуществить свою мечту?
I was thinking the same thing. What an awesome job, if I was still a kid
and he is paid to do so!!
8 Начальников и один копает... Нормально...!!!!!
The Wilson Inlet sand bar has been artificially opened each winter since the 1920s to limit flooding of low lying lands adjacent to the Inlet. Once the Inlet water level reaches 1.01 m above AHD, the bar is breached by cutting a channel through it with an excavator.
Someone sharing some proper info instead of just saying "WhY Do ThIs, ItS jUsT gOnNa GeT wAsHeD aWaY"
What did they use to dig it in the 1920s?
A shovel.
Austrailia doesnt get winter -- whens the last time that ocean froze over ? - NEVER -- they have 2 seasons not 4 -- they have warm and hot
6 seasons actually in the south west and actually the number of people from cold countries that i have heard complain that it gets cold here is quite a few
So Australian to have 1 operator working and 8 site manager vehicles parked up making sure that 1 operator works smoothly 😂😂
And they all get paid with taxpayer money, to stand around doing nothing.
One working and dozend just watching whatever is what our modern society became. It allowed for home office which is just that …
Same here in America lol
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Being an elder person from the proud nordic nation Denmark, i was about to write an angry post about "THIS IS NOT DENMARK"
But, again being old - i posess wisdom - so i read the text and found out there is a Denmark town in Australia.
And still, being an elder, i am now MAD about Australia STEALING THE NAME OF MY PROUD NORDIC NATION!!!
;)
Hav a nice day all doown under.
Peter ;)
Hope your enjoying your new Queen we supplied 😉
@@indyrock8148 Well .. we really do.
She is so down to earth kind and engaged. And her danish is amazing - you did a good job down under ;)
@peterjrgensen2792 we are very proud of her. It's a hard job and she is doing it well.
Here DownUnder we name our places and streets that bring us good memories. 👍
It's actually a surname of a friend of Thomas Braidwood Wilson who was a naval doctor (said friend was the physician of the fleet and his mentor) when Britain made the first trips there in the late 1800's and into the start of the 1900's and has nothing to do with your Denmark, it wasn't uncommon at all to have a surname like that back then.
Mesmerising! Beautiful photography and music.
Very satisfying video to watch. I don't know about other people but as a child I built and breached many little "garden dams" in my childhood. I'm betting there are lots of viewers like me wishing they were doing the digging. 😅
Me too :)
Our hands as excavator buckets …
@@StrzalaOstryPazur I knew there had to be others out there.. 🚜👍
@@jezcoates 100% .. with the appropriate digging and machine noises. 😅👍
Guilty as well, Used to use PVC pipes in my dams to be able to control the flow with pipe plugs.
Lovely showing of how the connection between estuary and sea develops and changes; nice choice of music, too.
Great video, thank you. I'd love to see it on Day 7
Fantastic video documenting the opening of this inlet. Thank you 'shoreface photos' ... excellent work.
To save others from having to go searching for location, this is near Denmark, Western Australia.
Thanks mate
Ohhhhh, first I thought Denmark the country, and then I saw Albany and thought maybe New York. I haven't figured out yet why this is being done. I'm sure there's a reason, but all I see so far is the destruction of a beautiful beach.
Yeah it's in the description
@@lindastent-campbell5130 fun? How is this "destruction of a beautiful beach"? When a kid builds a sandcastle do you also see that as "destruction of a beautiful beach"? Or if a dog digs a hole...also "destruction"? Only difference is scale.
Cool views on the color mixing. Thank you for the video!
Wow, incredible video. Thanks!
That was a massive amounts of water being held by that tiny sand bar... great coverage man! you earned my sub!!!
It was a cool video. I look forward to seeing you get better. ❤
Lovely job on the video. Beautifully lit and such great scenery.
Beautiful. The river got to the sea. Living inland this reminds of how much I miss the ocean. Thankyou.
'kin ell that snare drum woke me up!!! Amazing video!
this! i was having some catharsis then wham! whats going on ?
Interesting vid. Thanks for sharing.
Great video! Well done!
Awesome video! Makes me want to visit!
34 min is the money shot. Looks amazing !
I live in Perth but have got family in Denmark. This video was very impressive with the drone footage.
Very nice drone footage
As someone living in Denmark, Northern Europe, this confused me for a quick second.
As being a Southern neighbor in Lübeck i was confused as well by how the countryside, coast and ocean looks and there was sometging with Albany as well 😂
Me to I thought it might have been thyborøn channel they were clearing out or something.
Dude i live in Australia & i was confised 😂
@@aaronhisminiatures6129
Obviously confised as well as confused...
@@JohnSmith-pl2bk obviously a typo....
All I could see was an excavator driver and about thirty people holding his beer
and putting up a fence of poles to keep people under control near that dangerous "man working his machine"....
Great video, I love Denmark and Albany areas. Denmark won Town of the Year many times too.
Great video
Thank you Great views
Awesome shots !! I love how creative the drone shots were are able to create. It’s an amazing tool for creating!! And the pilot has the ability to create their own vision into reality!! Subbed my friend!
Favorite word is „create“, thanks for sharing this.
Superb, well Filmed.
JOOG SQUAD will have that done in the morning ready for an afternoon session..
Epic photography.
That angle and width at low tide produced the greatest flow and volume with directional control that provided the max transfer assuring no stoppage due to lack of level reduction
I was just thinking the same
He dug that ditch just right..
since it's an annual occurrence (since the 1920's) one would hope it was done "just right" this year.....
Big Hi from the country Denmark 🇩🇰
very interesting. thanks
super cool, thank's
That was fascinating to watch.
The inlet is now an outlet. 🙂 It's a good example of the power of water.
Nice work. If this were filmed with a helicopter with a gyroscopically stabilized camera mount, it would have cost thousands of dollars.
Good to see so many expert digger drivers with experience in trenching waterlogged sand
LOLOL We're only doing what guys have done for years while looking through the fences into a construction site and putting in their 2 cents worth of sage advice.
For laughs I tried to put some math into the idea of people shoveling it out in a big dig-fest. If you assume 8 shovel scoops per ft³ its 216 a yard. Even numbers, 200 scoops per yard, a 2 yard bucket is 400 and if he's keeping an average of 4 scoops a minute thats 1600 shovels per minute. Say a person will average 2 a minute when you figure they're not keeping a non-stop pace, so 800 people digging at all times and they all have to eat, drink, use the bathroom, get there, get organized, manage not to get hurt in unstable sand digging a 4 foot deep trench with no boxes. Seems totally reasonable, much cheaper than a few guys supervising an operator and a couple of surveyors....
Sorry 8000. Missed a zero.
It ain't exactly rocket science...
That person is my father, he is wonderful
Music at the end was awesome.
Someone was looking for some OT. He could have made a trench the width of his bucket and the water would have done the rest.
So your a sand trench expert?!!,.....been done like this for 100 years ,but some millenial knows better im sure, in your never, neverland mind anyway😂!!?
No actually it was usually done historically by creating extremely small funnels and letting the water do the rest but I hear u there is no problem with him digging a little extra@@slotripper
A man gotta do what he can to feed the family
@@samcriisfree4432 Exactly, Ross vlog creations does a small trench with a spade in a few hours and the water flowing out washes the trench sand out to sea.
@@slotripperbet a mellinial was the the operator of that excavator. You do realize that mellinials are about 40 years old now. But yeah kids they are. 🤪
From reading comments from people in the area this sand bar builds up and breaches naturally, however there is too much unpredictable flooding because the exact water level at breach is not consistent, so they help Mother Nature breach the sand bar early so flooding is not as big a problem
They have tried leaving the sandbar to do its thing, but it just caused problems. Even when the inlet is close to flooding, the sandbar won't open up.
why not have a guy whit a shovel? seen loads of videos of doing that
@@t84t748748t6
Getting that initial deeper water ditch dug might be a problem for a man with a shovel....
oh wait
that was sarcasm....
wasn't it???
Музыкальный ряд - потрясающий ! Спасибо ...
That was awesome. Legend on the Digger, wet sand expert.
I can't dig around a little in a creek in my state because "it would disrupt the ecology." Australia:
Rich people affected.
Maybe because they know what they’re doing?
Qld you can
Because letting one person do it is fine, letting everyone do it leads to cholera.
Before they did that dig they 100% did a extensive repot of why its neeeded, tidal range energy input can help ecosystems alot. The brown water is i assume cus of the lack of oxygen.
"Hey, could you get a few drone shots for this dig?"
OP: I got you covered fam.
Is that a double bass being bowed? Definitely a great foundation for the piece. Mucho gusto!
Whoever chose the soundtrack for this video did a wonderful job. Really nice picks.
Very soothing and relaxing to watch, but I never did see Godzilla.
Нуллаки (Уилсон-Инлет) на южном побережье Западной Австралии, расположенной между Олбани и Данией, ежегодно открывается вручную на ежегодной основе для здоровья эстуарии и предотвращения наводнений в низменных районах.
Это видео документирует операции по прокладке траншей в 2020 году и впечатляющий поток 24 часа спустя, когда канал расширился до более чем 100 м в ширину.
Видеозаписи Департамента регулирования водных ресурсов и окружающей среды документируют открытие протоки с 2017 года.
Ослоеп, я в гугле и сам перевести могу.. Токо вот то что перевел мне гугли получился более читабельно нежели эта уйня что тут напереведено
Spectacular
Before digging the plug, it kinda reminds me of the Suez Canal from Goggle Earth. I imagined them putting in miniature locks on it. Row boats and swan paddle boats paying 50 cents to pass through each lock on the "canal". LOL I don't know where my mind goes sometimes...apparently some hydrological Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood.
HA! Looks like the operator was in his own world too. He built as much tension as he could dragging out the last few buckets. Maybe the operator was thinking "And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned...".
It says under the title, thst they do this every year for estuary health and to prevent flooding of low lying areas.
You got me pretty confused, not knowing this inlet in my home county 🇩🇰👍😎
@shoreface I nearly missed this altogether! How? Well these videos are put out on the WORLDWIDE web and if you want folk to watch them ....... Even 'WA' in the title would've helped.
I've only been to that area a few times and it was a long time ago. I had no idea that this was done, never mind every year! Most interesting.
I grew up near Glenrock Lagoon in NSW. The lagoon cyclically fills, washes open across the beach, builds the sand back up and repeat. It seems odd that this one doesn't open by itself.
It does, I went fishing down here years ago and the winter rains used to break through it maybe they’ve had a bad year rain wise. But regardless, this should be left to nature to sort out because these cycles are normal. The snapper grow up in there and when it breaks they are met by the sharks on the other side, meanwhile it’s great fishing before this happens.
It does open by itself, but the level in which it would naturally open up would flood too much land upstream so they open it up earlier.
Thanks to professional equipment such as excavators, the freshwater canal was completed, which was amazing
At what point in the video are the kayak races?
I always wondered where the Red Tide came from. Thanks Aussies
Perhaps those low lying area's are supposed to flood occasionally .
Sounds like you need the same solution used at the "Lake Illawarra" entrance. It's now permanently open.
Day 3 early morning looks like a waterfall . Whole story was magic sound and all .
Man: dig a nice angle trench for the water to flow nicely through.
Mother nature: Hold my beer, I'm going straight through!
is there a follow up video to this
Hey, is that one dude in the light blue or grey jacket and brown pants playing the bagpipes?
People, people, people. The guys in the safety vests with the trucks are the engineers, environmental folks etc. They specified the sizing and shape of the trench. Give the excavator operator a break. He is simply meeting the specifications......
i can only assume the digger operator was on an hourly rate cos that was wayyyyyy more digging than needed
a father-son team did it in 1 day hand digging a trench...
Thats exactly what I was thinking. 2 buckets wide when it only needs to be 1 foot.
@@mikem631and the basis of "needs 1 foot" is what research exactly? You sure know the banks can collapse into a channel, slow down flow and prevent the self-widening? Show that you did think about that, quantitatively
It’s a council excavator and the operator is a council worker. Just a days work…
o so he is working way to fast for a Gov employee. unless that was a 6 month project. @@TheG1162
Did they call in for locates?
I like how the people are restricted moment on a public beach
The water color change is crazy
tannins from decaying vegetation gives tha dark brown colour,.....
the sea of course bleaches the tannins out of the water over time....
Anyone take a ride along the channel on a board or dinghy? Looks like fun!
That's what I stayed to see !
Bela restauração do canal, precisamos urgentemente, aqui no Brasil, realizar esta integração da Laguna dos Patos, impedida por MOLHES, NA PRAIA DO CASSINO (maior do mundo, com 250 km de extensão), Rio Grande do Sul. Obrigado.
Denmark?!
Isn't this on the South West of Australia?
Ha ha.... eight trucks full of guys standing around watching one bloke dig a trench.
They did put up some poles to stop the crowds getting too close...elf and safety mate...
Where's Jamie O'Brien when you need him?
Watch the boom in shellfish numbers with all that sediment feeding them.
Surf fish be like "BUFFET IS OPEN!!"
I learned something today - Denmark is not just a country.
Me too 😅
At first I was a little confused as a danish my self!!
I wonder how far back the shore line will be when it completely drains
Today I lerned that there's a town in Australia named Denmark, the same name of the country I live in :P
OMG i had to google this because denmark is a country on the oppeset side of the world so how could the rivers be connected. but it seems like they have a city named after the country. now it makes more sence
Why did you dig four times the trench you needed?
because the excavator was rented and the operator payed full up front, so they said "make it 2 shovels wide!"
Maybe you tell those guys with the degrees and the experience of doing it on a semi-annual basis. I'm sure they'll realize the error of their ways and hold digapalooza next year. A few man buns with beach toys and it'll be open in mere minutes. There's no way that a 25 ton machine can beat some groms with sand toys.
It quarters the risk of the sea being naughty and closing it back up again...?.
@@JohnSmith-pl2bkdu brauchst im Prinzip nur einen ganz kleinen Graben, durch die Strömung vom Wasser wird immer mehr und mehr Sand mitgerissen und wird von allein zum Fluss... Da verstopft nix wenn der Graben erst einmal fließen kann😅
Die Leute aus dem Video haben als Kinder nie im Sand am Meer oder Badesee gespielt und Gräben mit Wasser frei gespült 🤷♀️
@@kleinerstubentiger9401
The sandbar didn't just materialise...the strong wave action caused it to accumulate...and a small ditch might have been overcome by the wave action before achieving a full scoring flow of water.
They do this every year. have done for 100 years.
I bet they know what they are dong...
As far as I can see, the excavator driver is taking a simple job and fleshing it out into two days work for very little reason. The sediment all appears fine and mobile, and the water level in the estuary is higher than the ocean. So all you actually need to do is to make a trench about a foot wide through the sand bank blocking the bay where the bottom of the trench is just below estuary water level and the water flow will then do everything else for you once you breach the sandbank.
Of course this is a mere half day of work on a mini-digger and the operator doesn't get to make a completely unnecessary freshwater trench and also doesn't get to put in a nice curve and all that stuff (which disappeared as water eroded it) so his enjoyment is likely diminished, but it does save you a fair amount of machine time.
I was thinking something similar. Bring in a D-7 CAT bulldozer and just clear a line from the estuary to the ocean till it's lower than the estuary, then let nature take it's course.
He's just digging the size and shape of trench he's been instructed to. Sheesh, you armchair experts have got the poor bloke tarred and feathered and you haven't even raised a sweat!
@@SafeTrucking No, not the operator, the bosses that hired him. Yeah, he's just doing his job. But the designers of the project are the ones that appear not to have really thought this thing through. Lots of simpler ways to get it done. For instance, they didn't really need a plug between the estuary and the channel. Just keep digging the channel with the water in it. At some point, it will be lower than the estuary and nature will take over. No need to dig all the way to the ocean like they did.
@@Woody615 I'd say they've thought it through pretty extensively, but I don't care enough to get worked up about it. It was a nice vid to watch. :)
@@SafeTrucking True. Agree. Have a good one.
Shoreface948 Its an amazing video and the excavator did a very professional job. I enjoyed watching very much. I would however like to know the purpose of joining the estuary and the sea like they did. It would complete the story for me, Thanks 😊
When the lagoon backs up with water especially flood waters in winter...
it destroys valuable land etc further back upstream...
and we can't have that mate...
we pay rates...
dig that channel!
Dude I thought it was in the country of Denmark until I saw those utes
better than asmr
Okay, so exactly why does this inlet silt up like this? Is it a heavy sand load of the river? Or do currents force the sand to pile up? Why does it close that way?
Yes....
google is your friend....
RIP to that machine. I'm sure it ended up at auction within a month of this job covered in rust
_One very careful lady owner, always garaged, dry weekend use only - never raced or rallied_
Washed in freshwater and sprayed down with a diesel/oil spray...all good.
Now how do I get my 4x4 off the beach ?
They only got 1 track ho in Denmark?
I doubt the marine-life in the estuary appreciates this un-natural end to gestation!
"looking north towards denmark"
As a Swede, I was like "wait... what?"
Am I correct in assuming that the water is black/dark like that is because of all the organic material decomposing in the saltwater also no circulation and movement of water flow.
Tannins in water I believe so yes you're correct
Где это ахрененное место??? Беру трактор-лечу к вам)))))
Some tasty lil waves ya got there denmark
Eh just another beach in Australia 😁but seriously yeah the southern coast has awesome waves but plenty of really big Noah's,the sand is so fine as well you can drive a car on them
They should use the left over sand for dunes
Hi, @cameroonkendrick6312.
And just where would they/you build these dunes so that they
a. would not wash or blow back into the bar area?
b. would not destroy any existing landscape or environment?
c. would not interfere with recreational access to the area?
A 'kew-ree-yuss' mind would like to know.
Just my 0.02.
You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
Can anyone provide a brief explanation as to why this occurs? And how long it takes for that bright blue beach to return to its self? prior to the dark and brown water making it look much less appealing.
I am no Oceanologist, but I believe this has to do with wave and tidal actions from the Ocean bringing up and depositing sand at the inlet. One of the sources for an estuary is rainfall and runoff from uphill which will vary over the seasons, during the dry seasons the estuary would have low or no outflow. Because there is low outflow wave and tidal actions are able to wash sand ashore and nothing pushes it back out to sea. Big storms coming ashore also contribute with their winds blowing the water and sand toward land. Over the seasons a bar is created and the bodies of water separate. Sand bars will breach on their own given enough time, usually during a shore side flooding event, but in this case since there is Human infrastructure near flooding intervention was needed.
As for the bright blue beach returning, it would vary based on the factors contributing the sand bar in the first place, or how low the estuary empties during the breaching process. Probably a week or two. Once the estuary lowers and the outflow slows enough the brown water would dissipate into the blue water to the point where you'd never notice it. If I were part of the decision making team, I would time this draining to begin a few days before an unusually low tide so that the estuary empties as much as possible, but also does not entirely back fill with sea water. This would give the Ocean a good head start on building another sand bar that would likely last several years. For what it is worth the brown color mostly comes from decaying plant materials in the water, it is ugly but completely harmless (except for the inevitable Human environmental runoff).
Not really brief, but I have a habit of turning as many stones as possible. Hopefully this helps.
@@aland7236 outstanding response and info mate. Thankyou.
@@lonewolf6364 With pleasure my friend.
It is dug when some farmland around the inlet becomes flooded. The large reduction in the annual rainfall in the south west of Oz means it doesn’t get the large volumes rushing into the estuary to create a natural break. It has recently remained opened over a year due to Denmark and surrounds receiving their old average rainfall in 2023 for the first time in many years
Yep, marginal flooding of land can just be seen in some of the aerial shots of the estuary. It would have been interesting if the video maker had pointed that flooded land out with captions and told us the difference in the impounded estuary water level and the tide levels before the bar was breached.
cool video but you didnt show the tide come back in
Wait that does not look like Denm-... ohhhh
Someone gets paid to do this. The inner kid in me would do it for free with a shovel.
The number of vehicles on the beach indicates the Mongolian-Hordes approach to the job.
1 worker in the digger,
4 geologists,
2 Marine environmentalists,
two surveyors
and one poor sap to put in poles to do with elf and safety to keep the crowds away...
Come on everyone, who wouldn't love to play in a big sand pit with a real Tonka tuff digger like that.
Im surprised he didn't stretch it out to a week.😂