Wilson Inlet Bar Scenery 

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...!!!!!

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

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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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.

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.

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.

and putting up a fence of poles to keep people under control near that dangerous "man working his machine"....

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....

this! i was having some catharsis then wham! whats going on ?

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

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.....

Favorite word is „create“, thanks for sharing this.

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???

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

Ослоеп, я в гугле и сам перевести могу.. Токо вот то что перевел мне гугли получился более читабельно нежели эта уйня что тут напереведено

@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.

Yes.... google is your friend....

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.

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...

I was thinking it might have been to slow down the erosion of the bar and that’s why they mentioned the breach in the sand wall

He was being paid by the yard....

Erosion.

The diagonal protects the trench until the trench digs itself deep enough and wide enough to prevent the waves from stopping it up again..... When it gets really strong and wide outflows it obviously straightens up... it's big enough then to do what it wants and can't be overpowered by the waves.

That's what I stayed to see !

Me too 😅 At first I was a little confused as a danish my self!!

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!

tannins from decaying vegetation gives tha dark brown colour,..... the sea of course bleaches the tannins out of the water over time....

The brown water is fresh, but brackish and brown from peat. It's cheaper, by far, to send out an excavator once a year than it is to build some kind of permanent structure, and structures require maintenance on a regular basis, which is even more expensive.

@@r.awilliams9815 ok thanks. i was just concerned about the risk of losing a $100k machine and/ or salt damage

Tannins in water I believe so yes you're correct

There is information in the description.

@@currysues Not much

Yes, the Denmark River and other streams flow into the Wilson Inlet. Flow is dependent on rainfall alone, and this is mainly in winter. Good rainfall is required to breach the bar. The road and low-lying areas around the estuary/inlet would flood if the bar was left to breach naturally. When levels have dropped the sand bar rebuilds to several meters above sea level, closing it off from the ocean. This can take days to several months.

Seriously...read the video description. Want more info? Google.

They wouldn't be doing this if it didn't GREATLY benefit them in some way

They did put up some poles to stop the crowds getting too close...elf and safety mate...

The storm when it washes up the beach deposits sand and blocks the hole in the beach....so the barrier reforms...

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. 🤪

The diagonal gives the breach protection from the inrushing waves... until the breach digs itself deep enough and wide enough that the outrushing lagoon waters can't be affected by the sea any more....

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.

Tannin water. Look it up.

The chlorine i the sea bleaches all that crud in hours....tannins are a natural product from decaying vegetation.....like tea is from tea leaves.....