Honeymoon Island has split into two islands

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  • čas přidán 20. 08. 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.

Komentáře • 385

  • @jonmacdonald5345
    @jonmacdonald5345 Před 4 měsíci +744

    Divorce island now!

  • @MelanesianRyce-zu2wm
    @MelanesianRyce-zu2wm Před 4 měsíci +369

    Guess the honeymoon's over..

  • @davemanone3661
    @davemanone3661 Před 4 měsíci +108

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

    • @bobwoods1302
      @bobwoods1302 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @danlowe8684
    @danlowe8684 Před 4 měsíci +228

    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 Před 4 měsíci +43

      Thanks for the backstory

    • @mollylittlewolf9192
      @mollylittlewolf9192 Před 4 měsíci +26

      Thank you. That explains it.

    • @Unfluencer
      @Unfluencer Před 4 měsíci +54

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

    • @atatterson6992
      @atatterson6992 Před 4 měsíci +38

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

    • @guybeingaguy
      @guybeingaguy Před 4 měsíci +16

      @@atatterson6992 She literally wants to fight Mother Nature

  • @davidcarmack5074
    @davidcarmack5074 Před 4 měsíci +36

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

  • @user-dw1ls3rp1l
    @user-dw1ls3rp1l Před 4 měsíci +41

    Even nature loves metaphors.

  • @noodengr3three825
    @noodengr3three825 Před 4 měsíci +63

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

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 Před 4 měsíci +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 Před 4 měsíci +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 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@thievingpanda Al Gore visited your house?

    • @thievingpanda
      @thievingpanda Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@sentientflower7891 You know it!

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @dank2265
    @dank2265 Před 4 měsíci +16

    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.

    • @jonathantan2469
      @jonathantan2469 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Like in South Beach Miami... Building concrete highrise condos on a giant sandy barrier island that naturally shifts over time...

  • @size-matters
    @size-matters Před 4 měsíci +75

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

    • @Hayyyward
      @Hayyyward Před 4 měsíci +21

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

    • @mechellerene
      @mechellerene Před 4 měsíci +3

      Agree

    • @mechellerene
      @mechellerene Před 4 měsíci +6

      @@Hayyyward 100%

    • @timg2973
      @timg2973 Před 4 měsíci +1

      she must work for the government.

    • @kbrown5218
      @kbrown5218 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Heck that might be a new great fishing spot😊

  • @bbrcummins1984
    @bbrcummins1984 Před 4 měsíci +43

    This island was absolutely beautiful 60 years ago

    • @marilynwaaldijk_howell1320
      @marilynwaaldijk_howell1320 Před 4 měsíci +3

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

    • @aerialcombat
      @aerialcombat Před 4 měsíci +1

      how was it different?

    • @mechellerene
      @mechellerene Před 4 měsíci +5

      It still is. Absolutely gorgeous.

    • @brianjacobs3102
      @brianjacobs3102 Před 3 měsíci +1

      Yeah, wasn't everything better 60 years ago.

  • @mechellerene
    @mechellerene Před 4 měsíci +47

    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 Před 4 měsíci +3

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

    • @jonathanshumpert9549
      @jonathanshumpert9549 Před 4 měsíci +3

      @@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.

  • @bobloblaw9679
    @bobloblaw9679 Před 4 měsíci +31

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

    • @mechellerene
      @mechellerene Před 4 měsíci +13

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

  • @annietang3780
    @annietang3780 Před 4 měsíci +28

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

  • @davidthaler7018
    @davidthaler7018 Před 4 měsíci +57

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

  • @atatterson6992
    @atatterson6992 Před 4 měsíci +31

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

  • @sailcatthecat972
    @sailcatthecat972 Před 4 měsíci +80

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

    • @Floridagulfcoast727
      @Floridagulfcoast727 Před 4 měsíci +6

      Spot on

    • @ericargento4429
      @ericargento4429 Před 4 měsíci +7

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

    • @sailcatthecat972
      @sailcatthecat972 Před 4 měsíci +6

      @@ericargento4429 if the shoe fits...

    • @petermoss4824
      @petermoss4824 Před 4 měsíci +1

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

    • @t-dog8528
      @t-dog8528 Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@ericargento4429seriously? Watch that next high tide kazza

  • @brisvegas859
    @brisvegas859 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Water knows no boundaries.

  • @lennyray42
    @lennyray42 Před 4 měsíci +13

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

  • @davidhoffmann6771
    @davidhoffmann6771 Před 4 měsíci +26

    This has opened and closed in the past

    • @mechellerene
      @mechellerene Před 4 měsíci +5

      It will be interesting to watch over the coming months.

  • @dr.winstonsmith
    @dr.winstonsmith Před 4 měsíci +7

    Prophetic for couples

  • @angelgarcia1025
    @angelgarcia1025 Před 4 měsíci +17

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

  • @gonefishing3644
    @gonefishing3644 Před 4 měsíci +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.

  • @ep2223
    @ep2223 Před 4 měsíci +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 Před 4 měsíci

      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 Před 4 měsíci

      Try reading books.

    • @ep2223
      @ep2223 Před 4 měsíci

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

    • @sentientflower7891
      @sentientflower7891 Před 4 měsíci

      @@ep2223 education works. Try it for once.

    • @ep2223
      @ep2223 Před 4 měsíci

      @@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.

  • @timbrown8038
    @timbrown8038 Před 4 měsíci +6

    It's legally separated.

  • @maxmotors9497
    @maxmotors9497 Před 4 měsíci +2

    You can’t stop Mother Nature.

  • @piratepete842
    @piratepete842 Před 4 měsíci +2

    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

  • @katjones2781
    @katjones2781 Před 4 měsíci +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

  • @dr.baljitkaur3988
    @dr.baljitkaur3988 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Now the honey island has it's OWN moon

  • @zoecunningham3019
    @zoecunningham3019 Před 4 měsíci +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

  • @marcusthatsme
    @marcusthatsme Před 3 měsíci

    My family used to walk Honeymoon Island most evenings when I was a kid, crazy to think it looks like that now.

  • @slickjohnc1
    @slickjohnc1 Před 4 měsíci +4

    This is exactly how Hurricane Pass was formed.

  • @thadcalvert7466
    @thadcalvert7466 Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @mwmccann3734
    @mwmccann3734 Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @odatopt
    @odatopt Před 3 měsíci +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.

  • @cannonfodder4812
    @cannonfodder4812 Před 4 měsíci +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.

  • @gimpygardner3377
    @gimpygardner3377 Před 4 měsíci +3

    His and hers islands... The perfect marriage.

  • @TameraJacobs
    @TameraJacobs Před 4 měsíci +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 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @Jen-rose76
    @Jen-rose76 Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @dougmorgan3590
    @dougmorgan3590 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Let Mother Nature do her thing, she knows what’s best for the environment

  • @leftfinned
    @leftfinned Před 3 měsíci

    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. 😢

  • @dikoman516
    @dikoman516 Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @loudfast1261
    @loudfast1261 Před 4 měsíci +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.

  • @aloha4ever1
    @aloha4ever1 Před 3 měsíci

    One of my favorite places to bring my dog.

  • @MLandPRO77
    @MLandPRO77 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Wow!

  • @danielwaynemiller
    @danielwaynemiller Před 3 měsíci

    Can't wait for the Divorce Court episode to drop

  • @billmadison2032
    @billmadison2032 Před 4 měsíci +2

    These are all barrier islands and are subject to the weather

  • @Pinkorchid72
    @Pinkorchid72 Před 4 měsíci +2

    The honeymoon is over!

  • @xrayron1
    @xrayron1 Před 4 měsíci +1

    Absolutely no riptide would happen at that spot.

  • @MrOptimusheath
    @MrOptimusheath Před 4 měsíci +3

    This is why I never got married 🤣

  • @hayleysroom
    @hayleysroom Před 3 měsíci +1

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

  • @NUKEzx10r
    @NUKEzx10r Před 3 měsíci +2

    Who knew the world could be a dangerous place?

  • @Nubenhoofer
    @Nubenhoofer Před 4 měsíci +3

    I guarantee the women on The View try to use this to rant about the "Climate Crisis"

  • @peterodz007
    @peterodz007 Před 4 měsíci +5

    Sand banks.not so as an island.

  • @MadScientyst
    @MadScientyst Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @davidmurray6176
    @davidmurray6176 Před 3 měsíci

    I've been there dozens of times on boats. The tide is always changing it from day to day. Putting a time lapse camera would show just how much change occurs. Mother Nature knows what it's doing. Leave it be.

  • @adventurecoalition3690
    @adventurecoalition3690 Před 4 měsíci

    Nature is awesome

  • @yourworldexplorer1
    @yourworldexplorer1 Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @greggreg2263
    @greggreg2263 Před 4 měsíci +7

    Sera sera

  • @viniciusbrand4742
    @viniciusbrand4742 Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @dillinpicklesworth5698
    @dillinpicklesworth5698 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @mikeyh0
    @mikeyh0 Před 4 měsíci +1

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

  • @heisrisen7961
    @heisrisen7961 Před 4 měsíci

    Looks like the honeymoon is over!!

  • @timjones8184
    @timjones8184 Před 3 měsíci

    Looks like a nice fishing spot. 😂

  • @dafudd7779
    @dafudd7779 Před 4 měsíci +2

    The landscape is ever changing. Accept this change, and quit trying to stop it. Builing infrastructure on what is basically a sandbar is a fools folly and should be treated as such. Erosion is nature. Deposits is also nature. Always changing.

  • @cocolocoflow
    @cocolocoflow Před 4 měsíci +1

    Mother Nature wanted a split.

  • @kbrown5218
    @kbrown5218 Před 4 měsíci

    Welcome to the new design by mother nature. Stop trying to make her mad by trying to change. Can't stop mother nature.

  • @qualicumwilson5168
    @qualicumwilson5168 Před 3 měsíci

    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.

  • @CEOkiller
    @CEOkiller Před 4 měsíci +1

    The Honeymoon is over!

  • @romad357
    @romad357 Před 4 měsíci +1

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

  • @graciepapineau3749
    @graciepapineau3749 Před 4 měsíci +1

    🚨 ALERT: effective immediately, Honeymoon Island will be renamed: Divorce Island.

  • @user-em2nh2hh8m
    @user-em2nh2hh8m Před 3 měsíci

    Let nature do its thing

  • @evonne315
    @evonne315 Před 4 měsíci +1

    You gotta let it change.

  • @jhariette
    @jhariette Před 3 měsíci

    done and over!

  • @pawwalton2157
    @pawwalton2157 Před 3 měsíci

    Even Honeymoon Island is separated.

  • @vidalott
    @vidalott Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @evilydal
    @evilydal Před 3 měsíci

    No Man's an island: Hold my beer

  • @robertgore8911
    @robertgore8911 Před 4 měsíci +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 Před 4 měsíci

      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.

  • @3rd-Place-v9i
    @3rd-Place-v9i Před 3 měsíci

    I’ve been there when the Honeymoon was still going. It’s sad they divorced.

  • @roguephoenix
    @roguephoenix Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @MonicaFlorida
    @MonicaFlorida Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @AmericanConstellation
    @AmericanConstellation Před měsícem

    I've lived here all my life, 66 years old. This is nothing new. It's nothing but sandbars out there. Clearwater beach is a sandbar. They get rearranged. I get a kick out of people that think they can keep the changes from happening. Ha! Boy are they in for a big surprise.

  • @boosysurfs2bfree
    @boosysurfs2bfree Před 4 měsíci

    She took half! Honeymoon is over.

  • @wtywatoad
    @wtywatoad Před 3 měsíci

    One of these days, Alice. One of these days!

  • @vulcan2882
    @vulcan2882 Před 4 měsíci +1

    I guess the Honeymoon is now over.

  • @RamsBereit
    @RamsBereit Před 4 měsíci +1

    Unfortunately, we decided to part ways 😪

  • @Tewthpaste
    @Tewthpaste Před 4 měsíci +1

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

  • @AllieThePrettyGator
    @AllieThePrettyGator Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @nealaskme6272
    @nealaskme6272 Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @williamelewis464
    @williamelewis464 Před 3 měsíci

    Know what's funnier, the "island" will be under 18ft of sustained seawater rise in about 10 yrs, so it will retake its place on the sea floor

  • @ASoundBalance
    @ASoundBalance Před 4 měsíci +1

    His and hers

    • @Joe_joe34
      @Joe_joe34 Před 4 měsíci

      Lol very straight forward, how long have you been a subscriber?

  • @michaelmccotter4293
    @michaelmccotter4293 Před 3 měsíci

    Split the beach.
    The Honeymoon's over.

  • @phillippitts6294
    @phillippitts6294 Před 3 měsíci

    Mother Nature is a harsh taskmaster

  • @StacyL.
    @StacyL. Před 4 měsíci +1

    Looks like this split is gonna be permanent... 💔

    • @Joe_joe34
      @Joe_joe34 Před 4 měsíci

      😢With what's am seeing am sure, how long have you been a subscriber?

  • @lindaterrell5535
    @lindaterrell5535 Před 3 měsíci

    Hurricane Pass is named for the storm that formed it.

  • @brendaplumley4491
    @brendaplumley4491 Před 3 měsíci

    They're not divorced, They're just separated

  • @AbsurdBear
    @AbsurdBear Před 4 měsíci

    0:35 Sh-sh-sh-SHARK!

  • @dennisenright9347
    @dennisenright9347 Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @jsandra860
    @jsandra860 Před 4 měsíci +3

    lol, rich people problems

  • @dastrnad
    @dastrnad Před 4 měsíci

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

  • @lokesh303101
    @lokesh303101 Před 4 měsíci

    Split in two Islands!