Changes to EQkneelo's Ancestral Beach Break?

[Bud]

ab,

Where you live can be paradise, don't deny it.

Waaaaaaayyyyyyyy back when, Joe Engle and I scored incredible waves at your local.
Such long fast waves with every type of section to work.
Spread over a couple hundred meters.
Rippable walls, long deep Kirra-esque barrel sections and fat shoulders for full rail gouging cutbacks.
All strung together like Disney designed it.
I still remember how turquoise the water was...... sheer techni-colour!



We surfed until our arms were lead and salt crusted on our eye lashes.

And as we dragged our carcasses back down the beach for the last time, a couple of bare breasted beauties asked us if we wanted to share a reefer with them.

How could we refuse?
This evolved into another adventure.

That's paradise in my book.


If Syd gets a chance to help create a new spot that goes above average, then I'm sure folks up that way will have their own paradise moments to enrich their lives.

[Smokin Rock]

go Syd

[stemple]

Interestingly, the mandated design assumption for the project is that sea level will rise 55" or 140 cm by late Century.

From a fisheries perspective, the relocation alternative would be difficult to pass muster. Recent research is showing that functioning coastal estuaries and residence time are essential for the accelerated growth and hence survival of juvenile Coho salmon and Steelhead trout prior to migrating into the ocean. There are currently very small runs of both fish in the creek. Bolinas lagoon provides ideal habitat for this and this is likely the main reason why small runs still exist in the creek. Short cutting the lagoon and building a new estuary/mouth (tricky and $$$) may have a detrimental impact to fisheries but could solve the flood problem and make the wave better. Which one would you choose?

[Smokin Rock]

interesting how the weather cannot be accurately predicted 10 days out but decisions are made based on what the weather will do in a hundred years. seems flood control and increasing the lagoon size and tranquility should go hand in hand. if only common sense and science were exclusively employed but that would mean the State of California would have to be excluded from the process

[ezak]

Well a meteorologist I once knew would say

"Climate is what you can expect, weather is what you get."

[Smokin Rock]

seems climate, weather and an autopsy all have one thing in common. the most accurate results are post-mortem

[analbirth]

hey bud, shhhhhhh.... i think my part of the world hasn't been discovered yet
oh wait, i did see a small mention of something called the superbank
in the paper, surf mags, online media, news.... yada yada yada
so the rest of you guys beware, even a small mostly innocuous thread like this will spread the news and then it's open slather.
To quote the Eagles " call someplace paradise and you can kiss it goodbye "
So now even though i'm a local here that grew up surfing Burleigh, Currumbin AlleyKirra Greenmount & Snapper [ before the councils changed them all, some good some bad ] and would love to still surf them, i find i can't be bothered putting up with the agro and bullshite anymore.
I would much rather surf an uncrowded mediocre wave than battle huge crowds on these so call perfect breaks. They were only perfect in the past when i can remember surfing these points with only a few other lucky surfers, and on a few occasions all by my self. RIP Paradise AB

[Jerry]

A.B. I feel your pain

[randiego]

Uh....trestles is fun and all, but it's kind of a "weenie's" wave.

Hah hah hah hah Okay that was funny, but I admit to being one of the weenies sometimes