davidfox
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Thanks very much
Stone Point Survey
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davidfox
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Came out at 9.30 this morning and had .8m at the closest red can to stone point (can't remember it's name) indicating a depth of 2.7m as we closed the cardinal at the entrance it shot down to .2m a depth of about 2.1m this was surprising, as on the way in about 10m further away from the red can we were registering a depth of 3.2m at about the same state of the tide.
Bizarre, the boats at anchor close to the shore where the WFYC sign used to be resolutely refused to head into tide on both the ebb and the flood we anchored near the entrance to the creek of to the right and ranged all over the place, went to bed half cut and didn't give it a thought, awoke in approximately the same place!
Having not been ashore at stone point this season, I was shocked at the changes, it is radically different to last season, the area where I have camped in the past has changed shape and is unrecognisable, my kids said 'where are the cliffs' referring to the steep banks close to the sign and they were right, they had all been smoothed down, the area behind which was covered in vegetation is now under water at high tide and denuded, something really weird has happened.
Bizarre, the boats at anchor close to the shore where the WFYC sign used to be resolutely refused to head into tide on both the ebb and the flood we anchored near the entrance to the creek of to the right and ranged all over the place, went to bed half cut and didn't give it a thought, awoke in approximately the same place!
Having not been ashore at stone point this season, I was shocked at the changes, it is radically different to last season, the area where I have camped in the past has changed shape and is unrecognisable, my kids said 'where are the cliffs' referring to the steep banks close to the sign and they were right, they had all been smoothed down, the area behind which was covered in vegetation is now under water at high tide and denuded, something really weird has happened.
nortada
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Hi Dave,
Many thanks for your excellent summation. I too was around the backwaters this weekend & your experiences mirror our findings. At present the shallowest area appears to be just to the seaward of PLM16 Plumtree (Red nearest Stone Point) between the next 2 reds.
However, it is a rapidly changing situation & as the anchored boats indicate, there are a lot of back-eddies.
All interested parties are taking a keen interest so hopefully, if there is one, a permanent solution will be found.
A thought voiced in Titchmarsh Marina today is that the whole of Hamford Water is silting
Many thanks for your excellent summation. I too was around the backwaters this weekend & your experiences mirror our findings. At present the shallowest area appears to be just to the seaward of PLM16 Plumtree (Red nearest Stone Point) between the next 2 reds.
However, it is a rapidly changing situation & as the anchored boats indicate, there are a lot of back-eddies.
All interested parties are taking a keen interest so hopefully, if there is one, a permanent solution will be found.
A thought voiced in Titchmarsh Marina today is that the whole of Hamford Water is silting