I really feel for you guys down there, I have nothing but the sweetest memories of Cornwall and actually caught my first sea bass on this beach. The last time we came down on holiday we stayed in a cottage in Tehidy, we bought pasties from a bakers in Red Ruth and fished all day. That night we swapped mackerel for pints of cyder at the local pub. This absolutely heart breaking to see.
A lengthy video but very well filmed. Bloody hell I didn’t know Perranporth could get waves as rough as that. The locals may have ended up seeing some jellyfish in the river, what with the way the ocean was sweeping into it. I sometimes go to this lovely seaside town on days out from Truro.
It's very hard to watch because the the camera moves around way too much. Thank you for posting, but please just stop moving around so fast and so much.
Brilliant film .....Perranport is a beautiful place but this is scary considering I have walked many time round here and across the beach....wow...fantastic and just shows the dangers of the sea......Well done movie man......
Omg I still go to this beach I’m in perranporth rn and I’ve never seen the beach have a bad tidal surge like this for years bc I go to Cornwall 2 a year once in the summer which is rn and then one in may
To everyone complaining about the cameraman moving around too much, shut the hell up and just watch the video. If it wasn’t for him, you wouldn’t have this video to complain about.
lol... there are a number of places in Cornwall that suffer with high tide surges, it's just they get even more dramatic when a storm is behind them.. like this one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0j13U8DFnls.html in Polzeath where the water rushes across the beack, the beach carpark and into town, it's due to the long narrow bay, it acts like a funnel forcing the water to get higher as it comes in and move really fast. Google Polzeath high spring tide. Catches holiday makers out every year when they park in the beach carpark and don't check the board for high spring tides lol.. then they wonder why there car is under water. :D Same with Newlyn, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CmRYAqhf-pk.html when it's high spring tide with a storm behind it, it forces the water up a narrow river bed and dumps all those gallons of water in town. Which is why it floods so often. :D View from other side of bridge.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GVi4VZ0H2Qc.html
its still pretty rough in Cornwall, we've just had more spring tides. I've posted a video here showing some of the recent breakers - Cornwall sea storms - monster waves smash the coastline.
luscious force of nature. would love to have been there - but not dangerously close of course. last walked the sands in the summer - will there be any left now?!
I remember going to Perranporth on a hot summer's day a few years ago, the sea was about 10 minute walk out from that little bridge! In this video's that would be under 30 feet of water!
The tides at the head of the Bay of Fundy in Minas Basin in Canada are 15.85 meters twice a day, every day. Where I live in Saint John, New Brunswick, the Fundy tides are just under 7 meters and enough to reverse the flow of St. Jon River twice a day, just look up Reversing Falls Rapids on RU-vid.
I always found another good spot for high tides was at the top of cliff road and down the steps in the St Agnes side of chapel rock, you get some really nice loud and deep booms from the waves being rebounded in the caves.
Actually, would have been better if he didn't keep moving the camera around and zooming in & out. Whatever camera lens he's using isn't good enough to compensate for motion.
The watering hole pub was always slightly raised... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Perranporth_Beach_and_The_Watering_Hole.JPG but seemingly by sheer fluke, the waves turned the slope into a huge cliff edge, and protected it. So far it's survived pretty much unscathed I think!
From the comments this apparently is not a tsunami. This is a regular occurrence then? What combination of factors produce this if it's not every tide cycle?
Anybody owning houses close to high tide mark today would do well selling ASAP because sure as eggs are eggs, the high tide mark will only creep higher!
Water is such a dangerous thing I remember when I was 5 years old I went swimming with my brothers and sister and I didn’t know the difference between deep end and shallow end so I ended up jumping in the deep end if it wasn’t for my brother saving me I wouldn’t be here today and ever since that has happened I’m terrified off water
This is not a Tidal Wave. It's like a large wave that happens under the waves caused by the storm. I've seen the exact same thing happen on a smaller scale at certain surf spots...
