We had incredible 7 ft high tides over the weekend. Mixed with a good head high swell this meant the coast took a pummeling. These photos show Cardiff's Restaurant Row getting swamped. The Cardiff Reef parking lot was closed to cars since it was covered in sand, kelp and rocks. And all throughout the weekend our bluff were getting hammered hard. I saw waves crashing into the North Beacons seawall that was sending spray 60 ft into the air. El Nino!!!
Good thing the city paid for dirt to be dumped at Grandview.
ReplyDeleteAnon 7:08 might be right. Ponto has no sand south of the parking lot, and a few pieces of the bluff collapsed. I am seeing reef exposed at low tide that I am not sure I have ever seen, and I've been surfing this area for 25 years.
ReplyDeleteTreacherous shots JP. Did the restaurants lose any windows this time? Those sacred stones we're forbidden to remove from the beach reek havoc with those windows at high tide. Not to mention the hazard for hungry patrons.
ReplyDeleteLooks like now would be a good time to decorate the scorched railroad right of way with cobbles before we get another El Grando hiding them with all that annoying sand. (If that wasn't forbidden as well.) I think cobbles there would make everybody happy. Or a storm channel that could double as a 2 mile half-pipe. Wheeeeee!
hey 7:08 and 7:22 AM
ReplyDeleteStop being such HATERS.
LEUCADIA NATIVE
6:22
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to yell.