Casually wondering if anyone has seen where the supposed temporary artificial reef might have been placed? No need to reveal its location, but I'd like to know if it's been installed anywhere yet. I haven't heard anything yet and considering it's a 'world first' and the trial was supposedly starting in late September, am curious why I haven't heard any whispers about it yet.

sparki said..
Casually wondering if anyone has seen where the supposed temporary artificial reef might have been placed? No need to reveal its location, but I'd like to know if it's been installed anywhere yet. I haven't heard anything yet and considering it's a 'world first' and the trial was supposedly starting in late September, am curious why I haven't heard any whispers about it yet.

I asked the same but considering their FB page has not been updated for since Oct 2014 id guess its not happened

jbshack said..

sparki said..
Casually wondering if anyone has seen where the supposed temporary artificial reef might have been placed? No need to reveal its location, but I'd like to know if it's been installed anywhere yet. I haven't heard anything yet and considering it's a 'world first' and the trial was supposedly starting in late September, am curious why I haven't heard any whispers about it yet.

I asked the same but considering their FB page has not been updated for since Oct 2014 id guess its not happened

I think this is a more reliable reference:
www.facebook.com/events/828996100485333/

I had a bit to do with getting a council to twice in doing a beach replenishment putting sand in a spit.

Ended up both times getting amazing lettle lefts for the kids. Had some effect for about two months. This is a protected bay so never going to be big.

Perth from Swanbourne onto Trigg I think has amazing potential to be improved by harnessing the lateral sand drift. Do something to impede sand in the right shape and then once this sand trap has filled up let it move on so the shoreline is not impacted.

I was also wondering what impact using a machine on the edge of the water could do to set up a bank.

If you excavated say a decent sized swimming pool amount of sand would the oceans desire to fill in the hole be enough to create that circular rip effect and set up a bank.

Not a bad experiment for a boardriders club to do the day before a comp.

MickPC said...
Always thought contos would be a great spot for an artifial reef. Its even got a bit of reef there to help anchor the thing.

Aaah Contos ... the most inconsistent, overrated wave that everyone has a "I saw it ONCE...epic".

It's not a bad idea and there are bits of reef for anchors all the way up the beach.

PaulyOS said...

Jonopark said..
Hopefully this time they put it somewhere with swell, rather than somewhere with money!

Apologies but I just recorded this earlier today at cable stations outer reef. It was pumping all day so many people getting barrelled

Doesn't play

PaulyOS said..

Jonopark said..
Hopefully this time they put it somewhere with swell, rather than somewhere with money!

Apologies but I just recorded this earlier today at cable stations outer reef. It was pumping all day so many people getting barrelled

>>People getting barrelled.
>>Posts video of sponger

Hahaha not sure if you saw the entire coast yesterday? Second best metro day of the year (my opinion) and people were getting bigger barrels than that!

subasurf said...

PaulyOS said..

Jonopark said..
Hopefully this time they put it somewhere with swell, rather than somewhere with money!

Apologies but I just recorded this earlier today at cable stations outer reef. It was pumping all day so many people getting barrelled

>>People getting barrelled.
>>Posts video of sponger

Sorry I didn't have my phone with me 300m offshore when bigger sets came in...

Hamsta said..
Why would anyone attempt to surf that wave on anything less than a SUP...let alone on a bodyboard?

It's not a bad wave when it actually works properly. More shape than your average northern beachie. Just too short a ride to justify paddling all the way out and dealing with crowds that will be on it when it does work for my liking.

Just get everyone on seabreeze to bring a rock with them to a specific spot

GPA said..

riverider said..
Get some mates together and a truck load or 2 of rocks and you could put one of these in, looks bloody awesome!

That does look awesome - just wondering why I cannot see a single person out there? crocs / piranhas ??

Is it real or is it just a concept

I think smicko summed it perfectly albeit in a wickedly twisted ........!!!! wtf was that man!!!!! F.......ing hilarious !!!!! But it's photo shopped , I'm pretty sure I've seem that right hand setup somewhere else!

bjshack said..

Is it real or is it just a concept

Jesus. Seriously?

The jetty may be real, the wave breaking off it is not.

In fact not even sure this picture is real.

I really think with the littoral sand drift that an artificial kelp bed, shaped as required would sort out a lot of the marginal surf breaks along Perth coast.

could be made out of shade cloth (polyethelene) partly cut into to vertical strips, set in rows, and I think this floats, so anchor it with sand cover over lower section. once it captures some sand drift this helps the anchoring as the depth of sand increases. The height of the sand is made by capturing the sand drift in the kelp bed. Its the sand then making the wave break not the kelp bed.

seems cheap and easier and cheaper to experiment on the shape etc.

A lot of the surf breaks just need some touching up to fix the wave shape and length. and with some existing reef less erosion problems. Im thinking north of triggs. Triggs and scarbourough have a few more issues of erosion so more things to consider.