Grandpa Connects River to Ocean! Did he see that coming?

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  • @timthehippy9478
    @timthehippy9478 2 роки тому +635

    Awesome static waves from the creek, gramps is a champ bringing all that joy to the kids and adults that were riding and playing. Peace, love and unity from Newquay, Cornwall,uk.

    • @sherylcrowe3255
      @sherylcrowe3255 2 роки тому +4

      Hello from Northern California 💕

    • @troo_story
      @troo_story 2 роки тому +1

      @@mikehoncho9344 Newquay's in England mate, not Oz. Nobody says Good day here.

    • @deanomax69
      @deanomax69 2 роки тому +8

      In one day half the beach was removed. How can this be a good thing?

    • @timthehippy9478
      @timthehippy9478 2 роки тому +23

      @@deanomax69 By high tide the next day the sand was back again and the pond refilled, this happens a lot at this beach. It's not a bad thing at all, sometimes a storm comes and takes all the sand but a few days later it's all back again, beach's change from day to day. it all works out in the end, on this day fun was had and kids have memories that will last a lifetime. Take care and don't worry.

    • @robroy9793
      @robroy9793 2 роки тому +2

      @@troo_story There is a beach, a zoo and a bay in Cornwall, 🇬🇧 UK called Newquay. Do some research before you make a negative response. I looked at his post and saw UK in it. Did you even read his whole post?

  • @dootwiddaface3071
    @dootwiddaface3071 2 роки тому +1698

    That old man knew exactly what he was doing. Gotta be an old school surf type.

    • @sherrilynnnelson703
      @sherrilynnnelson703 2 роки тому +34

      He could have been satisfied with the ocean, but noooooooo

    • @billlincolnmd9159
      @billlincolnmd9159 2 роки тому +46

      Caused a lot of dune and beach erosion.

    • @Stoicswimfish
      @Stoicswimfish 2 роки тому +121

      @@billlincolnmd9159 Not really, the river was going to eventually do that by it's self. The oceans are typically the lowest points on earth and water always goes down hill. That just got the process started early before the backed up water caused any problems up stream, just like beaver dams in the wrong place can cause lots of damage to roadways. Plus it allowed the more adventurous types to experience something different in a safe way.

    • @johndough5854
      @johndough5854 2 роки тому +19

      They probably paid the old man to do this because he can claim senile and take a minor talking to at best. They would slap these kids with some charges for something I'm sure 🤣

    • @someguywithamustache7235
      @someguywithamustache7235 2 роки тому +56

      @@johndough5854 I was just trying to dig trenches to stop the natzis was his excuse🤣

  • @whoahanant
    @whoahanant 2 роки тому +107

    I see a lot of comments that don't understand why you would do this.
    First: No, do not do this at your local beach or swimming areas.
    Second: Some places HAVE to do this in order to level out waterways. People just capitalize on it since it's also a fun activity.
    So for people concerned over beach and waterway erosion, maybe double check if they're legally doing it first. They get repaired naturally in a couple days or so back to how they were.
    For people thinking this could be fun and try it yourselves, don't. It's only legal in certain places specifically to stop floods in waterways.
    I'm adding an edit for extra clarification too.
    These are usually naturally broken waterways too. Mother nature is going to do what they did all on her own.
    Except she won't care who is on the beach or what happens when she unleashes a couple hundred/thousands of gallons of water on anything there. Hence why these are controlled by humans every now and then. To keep the people on the beach safe, they do it when the water levels/erosion looks like it's going to give out on the beach.
    As for animals caught in it, mother nature also doesn't care. Like previously stated, she will dump the freshwater and any animals in the wrong place at the wrong time into the ocean without help from humans. That's just how nature works, completely random and violent.

    • @desertrat7634
      @desertrat7634 2 роки тому +10

      So for right now, this is legal. Some people are tied in knots over it, though. There are people in the area trying to stop this because, as one person argues, it makes it hard for minorities to enjoy the beach. Seriously, that's one of the arguments. Apparently those in the majority can still enjoy it, though I cannot figure out how that works. Another makes the argument that people could get hurt. And...!? People do things all the time where they can get hurt. Welcome to life. It's dangerous. I'll never understanding people wanting to regulate things that they are afraid of, while the people doing it are not. "I'm scared of that, so you can't do it." In none of the articles I read did anyone mention a convincing argument for it being damaging to the environment, since it also happens naturally in this very spot. But they mention the same things people mention here--might dry the river up, mixing fresh water with sea water is bad for the environment, kills fresh water fish, makes the beach go away (though only for a few hours), wasting water in a drought...a bunch of silly claims. I think their just jealous because they don't know how to have that much fun.

    • @alexb7641
      @alexb7641 2 роки тому

      I cant find said comments

    • @whoahanant
      @whoahanant 2 роки тому +1

      @@alexb7641 they're not that far down lol

    • @ahoksbergen
      @ahoksbergen 2 роки тому +1

      nature didnt do this one. and of course all things stabilize eventually

    • @sergeykish
      @sergeykish 2 роки тому

      Thank you

  • @NH4x4Jeep
    @NH4x4Jeep 2 роки тому +285

    That was pretty cool to watch the hydraulic action of the water cut through the sand only to the waves replace the sand at high tide!
    Re: pollution
    I grew up on the East coast and we had red tide, green tide, etc. Combined sewer drains were quite common when the storm drains were built. The drains look like a vertical oval with a smaller pipe or channel in the bottom. This ensured that there would always be sufficient flow to move the solids through the pipes without cloggin up. The thinking 100-200+ yrs ago was: "The solution to pollution is dilution!" And it worked. Natural bacteria broke down the organic materials. The original sewer lines were wood and eventually brick.
    Once populations exploded, the coastal areas were over-saturated with raw sewage. Sewers were routed to treatment plants which would treat the effluent before dumping purified water back into the bay. Upon heavy rain events, the treatment plants are overwhelmed and the larger portion of the pipe fills up with combined sewage and rain water bypassing the treatment plants and dumping the raw sewage into the bay.
    Boston Harbor was one of the most polluted places in the mid 1900's. Between the natural sewage and industrial sewage draining directly into the bay, the water became dark and toxic. Almost all life ceased to exist. In 2000, the city finished the construction of an underwater pipe that carried the waste 10 miles out where ocean currents are stronger and won't wash the effluent back onto the shore. Tragically, 4 men lost their lives in the final stages of construction. The health of the harbor has almost returned to normal.

    • @braveknight2000
      @braveknight2000 2 роки тому +6

      That's interesting.

    • @TeddyBear-ii4yc
      @TeddyBear-ii4yc 2 роки тому +11

      There's a lot of post-industrialisation clean-up of rivers nowadays. You mention Boston, USA. I'll add the River Mersey, UK. Like a lot of rivers in urban areas it was used as a useful dump for sewage and industrial processes. That's all stopped now with increased sewage treatment while the majority of our industrial processes have moved to the third world.
      Thus they say salmon are in the River Mersey once again. They say first time in 200yrs!
      P. S. Interesting about the (upside down) teardrop shape to sewers! It ensures the max water is always being used to move solids! Clever!
      The things you didn't know you didn't know.

    • @HowToGuroo
      @HowToGuroo 2 роки тому

      @@TeddyBear-ii4yc and the third world continues to pollute our oceans with waste runoff and plastics at a terrifying rate. 95% of the plastic in the worlds oceans comes from just a few rivers

    • @TeddyBear-ii4yc
      @TeddyBear-ii4yc 2 роки тому

      @@HowToGuroo
      Yeah I don't like it either... and I'm not sure there's, currently, a way around it?

    • @ahoksbergen
      @ahoksbergen 2 роки тому

      so, its okay to not treat your wastewater as long as it doesnt back up into your backyard..oh, okay just keep polluting away.

  • @davewinch6029
    @davewinch6029 2 роки тому +102

    And now you know how the Grand Canyon was made, started with an old man and a shovel.

    • @wallacezu1
      @wallacezu1 8 місяців тому +3

      He had long handlebar whiskers and smoked a pipe.

    • @jeaniehammond40
      @jeaniehammond40 8 місяців тому

      Ah ha ha, love it!

    • @charlottesmom
      @charlottesmom 5 місяців тому

      Well yeah…how else would it have been formed?? 😂

    • @dzymslizzy3641
      @dzymslizzy3641 5 місяців тому

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @blakeaaron5698
    @blakeaaron5698 2 роки тому +75

    This is Aliso Creek in Laguna Beach, CA (not Hawaii) and this creek is contaminated with dirty waste water from a sanitation system and naturally empties to the ocean. Locals usually avoid it because of the waste factor (like guy said in video, he stopped using as a kid when others got staff infections).
    I lived across the street from this beach for years.

  • @TheMaisiewoofwoof
    @TheMaisiewoofwoof 2 роки тому +323

    Great seeing kids out being active, enjoying nature, looking up to the older lads setting examples. It's how it should be. Kids need fresh air even if its not sport, it could be animals, gardening, drawing a sunset. They just need to get outside and have some fun.

    • @speedgonzalez489
      @speedgonzalez489 2 роки тому +13

      I miss those days in the water. Seems like today's attitude will never be what I had in the eighties and nineties on the California coast! This reminds me of the friendships I had then!!!🤙

    • @TheMaisiewoofwoof
      @TheMaisiewoofwoof 2 роки тому +7

      @@speedgonzalez489 I grew up white water canoeing, horse riding, rock climbing in the UK. I had an older brother who was an adrenaline junkie and loved his little sister tagging along.
      My kids are sports fanatics and I swear all that release has helped them do well at school. They're just nice kids are all their friends. They surf on the North Coast of Cornwall through the summer. I hardly see them lol

    • @speedgonzalez489
      @speedgonzalez489 2 роки тому +4

      @@TheMaisiewoofwoof sounds like you had a life like mine. Enjoyed every minute of being outside. Use too walk to our Bay when I was in middle School. Never been white water canoeing before, but just got my first kayak sooo... Being active helps with a lot of things. I was like your children. My mother saw me when I left for school in the morning and most of the time at supper. People should let their kids be kids like you do ! Off subject but didn't you use to do videos with your gsd?

    • @TheMaisiewoofwoof
      @TheMaisiewoofwoof 2 роки тому +1

      @@speedgonzalez489 lol yes, still got my gsd Ted and now a very cute Golden Retriever too although Im super lazy with posting lol.
      Furthermore you have to try white water but do it under supervision first, you need equipment and have to be able to Eskimo role the canoe in case you go over, it's fun learning that. Failing that canoe surfing is also a blast, hella hard getting back out but the ride is great.

    • @sherrilynnnelson703
      @sherrilynnnelson703 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah! Everyone should divert fresh water into the ocean and wonder why the reefs and fish die

  • @sapien82
    @sapien82 2 роки тому +52

    its amazing how smooth the water looks when it flows that fast over the sand

  • @arthurluwuge1629
    @arthurluwuge1629 2 роки тому +88

    This is a great video.. never seen anything like it. How people are one with the water is just fascinating.
    I'm in Uganda, a landlocked country, creeks and oceans are a myth to me.

    • @saibisureddo5657
      @saibisureddo5657 2 роки тому +5

      Man. You outta come visit us in America sometime. I live in northern Minnesota Its a much colder climate except our summers are also very hot. We are called the 'land of 10,000 lakes'. We also have the largest freshwater lake in the world I live right on the tip of it in Duluth. If you take a boat out onto Lake superior at sunset its literally like you are on another planet all together when you look at the horizon. Plus there are millions of swimming holes all over the state. Rivers, lakes, ponds, all types. If you want to experience water and all of its variety and depth and breadth. Literally can't get better then the great lakes. If you have the resources you could probably hitch a ride from the tip of lake superior all the way out to the ocean itself as it all is connected for trade.
      In Duluth we have a large port that mostly handles iron or shipping from all over the world that travels the entirety of the great lakes to get here. Its so cool. If you ever get time search on UA-cam for Duluth lift bridge ship you will find a lot of neat content if you enjoy ships at all.
      If you want a more kitsch or amusement parky feel for your water search up Wisconsin dells. That is in the equally glorious water state right next to us named Wisconsin.
      I grew up so associated with water that people started jokingly reffering to me as a 'water elemental' lol. No joke in my leisure time growing up I PROBABLY spent more time within water then on land. There is just something about it that calls to certain people. It would seem that even though you live in landlocked Uganda that the water calls to you too. I hope you find what you are looking for. You deserve what makes you happy. I hope videos like this helps with that for the time being! I hope no hater or border will ever stop ya friend. All people deserve to be as free as the water should they want to be.

    • @therapist6328
      @therapist6328 2 роки тому

      @@saibisureddo5657 Cheers. We can say the same thing here in Ontario. I was on Giant's Tomb Island, 16km out, in Georgian Bay, 2 weeks back. I can boat to your lake from there, but the gas would break me.

    • @saibisureddo5657
      @saibisureddo5657 2 роки тому

      @@therapist6328 Awesome! Yea a lot of systems seem to be connected to some degree in the region which is neat. Not sure what kinda border security you would need clearance with these days though. Back in the day it was more or less open borders lol. Sucks that we as a civ has gotten to the point where Canada and America can't trust eachother enough to keep our shared border more open for citizens. But eh I guess I get it. international terrorism and crime and now covid and also contraband blabla

    • @Grizzlox
      @Grizzlox 2 роки тому +3

      You are made of mostly water, you are still one with the water no matter where you live. ✌️💧

    • @ghostofgar
      @ghostofgar 2 роки тому +4

      I hope you get to visit the Ocean soon brother, Cheers from Australia

  • @CharemTheShadox
    @CharemTheShadox 2 роки тому +61

    Never thought of somebody building a 'wave machine' by just connecting two bodies of water. That was really neat, and quite a relaxing video to watch too.

    • @CharemTheShadox
      @CharemTheShadox 2 роки тому +2

      @@udhehfhehcuw9169 Well I don't know much of anything on this topic, but I did notice those sorts of concerns in other parts of the comments section and discussion off of that. It seems that this river and ocean often swap liquid based on the tides (you can see that the change of tide at the end of the video re-achieved equilibrium and stopped the flow), so it seems to be a natural-enough process and likely not harming any ecosystems. What the old man started in this video was something that nature was going to trigger anyways, he just helped it along.

    • @matthewsigurdson1321
      @matthewsigurdson1321 2 роки тому +2

      ​@@udhehfhehcuw9169 I see people having fun. they did no more harm to the world than what we all did today. we all use this earth .. just we get upset when we see others enjoy the same place? We all contribute to climate change. the world one day will end. but the joy these people had is priceless.

    • @matthewsigurdson1321
      @matthewsigurdson1321 2 роки тому +2

      @@udhehfhehcuw9169 America . Land of the free, home of the brave. And I trust that the surfers take way better care of the land then most people. Ever met a surfer? Gotta be one with the earth kinda people. As an American I approve of their fun.

    • @coldeggs2953
      @coldeggs2953 7 місяців тому

      @@matthewsigurdson1321No one gives a fuck what you approve bud you’re nobody, that’s an entire river flow fucked and possibly a massive change in an eco system

  • @timdowney6721
    @timdowney6721 2 роки тому +33

    Playing in the water is always fun. Gorgeous sunset light, too.
    And, yep. Grandpa knew just what he was doing.

  • @annebritraaen2237
    @annebritraaen2237 2 роки тому +83

    Living inland in a northern country, it's interesting to watch how people elsewhere utilize their environment. Lucky kids.

  • @samurai_1946
    @samurai_1946 2 роки тому +191

    Grandpa is an absolute legend!! Blair always ripping it!! Love it!!🤙🤙

    • @sherylcrowe3255
      @sherylcrowe3255 2 роки тому +1

      Which beach is this 🤔

    • @samurai_1946
      @samurai_1946 2 роки тому +3

      @@sherylcrowe3255 aliso creek i believe

    • @davidfaxon3336
      @davidfaxon3336 2 роки тому

      I am too. Just not on the waves🤣🤣🤣

    • @larryjacobson5228
      @larryjacobson5228 2 роки тому

      @@samurai_1946 The sign names it: Aliso in Laguna Beach
      .

  • @wordreet
    @wordreet 2 роки тому +63

    It must be amazing to ride that super fast water! It's changing shape every second, and even though we call it a standing wave, the sand is moving away underneath, so the wave changes and moves accordingly. So damn cool! 😎

  • @ismlamaroof6438
    @ismlamaroof6438 2 роки тому +10

    Pretty cool that he wouldn't say anything bad about the old guy not digging it perfectly straight and just appreciated that he did the work for them.

  • @k-lab
    @k-lab 2 роки тому +168

    Looks like tons of fun... and on the other hand I wonder what will happen with the ecosystem in and around the river in the oncoming years, since the water flow has been altered quite a bit.

    • @WeazelJaguar
      @WeazelJaguar 2 роки тому +29

      Don't worry, it's all a question of balance, Mother Nature will put the beach back and dam it all up again!

    • @bp51082
      @bp51082 2 роки тому +27

      The damming and breaching is a natural cycle. They are just helping it along a little bit. There's a reason it has to be done over and over again

    • @musicman0423
      @musicman0423 2 роки тому +36

      I hope it’s brackish water in that river! If not then the whole eco system will be destroyed. Fish will get in there and bacteria and depending on the tides, salt water will likely work it’s way up there.
      Yeah it’s fun to ride waves and get the kids outside being active, but I hope people thought this through first. Isn’t LA having a fresh water crisis?

    • @gonelucid
      @gonelucid 2 роки тому +18

      Yep and fresh water turned to salt water.. kinda wasteful. Especially since it's so costly to remove the salt

    • @TheMacMan0
      @TheMacMan0 2 роки тому +58

      @@gonelucid that water is primarly filthy runoff from the city, most definitely not used for drinking water and already full of bacteria. i live 15 minutes from here and its epic watching these guys ride the creek but still astonishes me they get in that water. the creek naturally crests the sand wall periodically and floods into the ocean so it is a natural process

  • @mavisspearhead1742
    @mavisspearhead1742 2 роки тому +27

    Grandads are awesome dudes.. They know way more stuff, and wiser for it.. Hail the grandads!!!

  • @cannonfodder6299
    @cannonfodder6299 2 роки тому +83

    Loved when the dude brought up Staph infections. Growing up in So. CAL, Everytime it would rain the beaches would get closed or have health advisories because of the run off from the storm drain rivers.

    • @jasonwhite2028
      @jasonwhite2028 2 роки тому +1

      Piggy

    • @sherylcrowe3255
      @sherylcrowe3255 2 роки тому +9

      Gross and TRUE!

    • @InquisitiveJen
      @InquisitiveJen 2 роки тому +6

      Or the current would bring up the sewer water from Mexico and shut it down.

    • @cannonfodder6299
      @cannonfodder6299 2 роки тому +10

      @@InquisitiveJen current flows south along the west coast

    • @Phoenixhunter157
      @Phoenixhunter157 2 роки тому +3

      @@cannonfodder6299 but imperial beach in southern Cali is always contaminated by sewage from t.j. It’s a legit event that happens. It’s disgusting. Raw sewage in the beach.

  • @jaymieharris7936
    @jaymieharris7936 2 роки тому +19

    Dude, who was supposed to be watching grandpa and keeping him out of mischief? I can’t leave him alone for two minutes and he disappears and builds rivers before his nap.

  • @ter3360
    @ter3360 2 роки тому +21

    Just randomly came across this and I'm hooked! The man the myth the legend!

  • @charlesmartin1121
    @charlesmartin1121 2 роки тому +155

    I would love to see a kayaker traverse the whole run into the ocean.

    • @gulicio1m293
      @gulicio1m293 2 роки тому +7

      Man the people down river must be pissed lmao 🤣

    • @kollak01
      @kollak01 2 роки тому +11

      @@gulicio1m293 wouldnt down river be the ocean? im sure they dont just fix the sand in that area. if the water was to get to high it would do the same thing anyway. if they cared there would be a dam or dyke of some sort.

    • @desertrat7634
      @desertrat7634 2 роки тому +3

      @@kollak01 even if they did care, putting a dam or dike would most likely cause flooding in the area immediately surround this reservoir when it rains. One person is heard in one of the videos saying that it is a collection area for rainwater. Absence of rain sees the area filled, and the beach fixed, by by high tide. I would love to know where this is. It seems like a place with visiting.

    • @StragglerTx
      @StragglerTx 2 роки тому +3

      If I was there I would be that man lol ,,hold my beer 🍻😜

    • @charlesmartin1121
      @charlesmartin1121 2 роки тому

      @@StragglerTx Go for it! I don't think the lifeguards will let you have alcholic beverages on the beach anyway.

  • @crdudley
    @crdudley 2 роки тому +19

    If you're an ocean person, never leave. I'm stuck inland. I have a wonderful life. But all I do is dream of my return to the sea.

    • @matthewstrauss6402
      @matthewstrauss6402 2 роки тому +1

      a-men, brother. grew up on both pacific and atlantic coasts. i miss it.

    • @cavalieroutdoors6036
      @cavalieroutdoors6036 2 роки тому

      Yeah, it's funny when I was younger I kinda didn't care about the ocean. At 36 I really can't imagine living anywhere else.

  • @bendoubleu7516
    @bendoubleu7516 2 роки тому +6

    Man, that’s awesome. Mother Nature is such a powerful force.
    Looks like a good community there, people know each other’s names, looking out for each other. Looks like a dream place to be raised as a kid.

  • @monkeynova2012
    @monkeynova2012 2 роки тому +121

    This is pretty epic and props to all involved. At risk of being "that guy" haven't you guys just diverted a pretty major waterway? lol

    • @1WitchyBitch
      @1WitchyBitch 2 роки тому +62

      My thoughts exactly. Nothing like destroying an established ecosystem

    • @manxgirl
      @manxgirl 2 роки тому

      @@1WitchyBitch I hope that was a saltwater estuary and not a freshwater river. Otherwise, their are gonna be A LOT of dead 🐟.

    • @martintrapper5366
      @martintrapper5366 2 роки тому +13

      River is up it won't hurt anything.

    • @martintrapper5366
      @martintrapper5366 2 роки тому

      @@1WitchyBitch it won't hurt anything, just help the high water of the river.

    • @angelaburrell4649
      @angelaburrell4649 2 роки тому +4

      No flooding there

  • @tayzonday
    @tayzonday 2 роки тому +3

    Of course! He saw the Romans build the aqueducts.

  • @bigbird2451
    @bigbird2451 2 роки тому +32

    Nice shout out to Ben at the end. He could have used that big wave leash the other day.You guys always mention the high tide in the river break videos, but I never realized that the surf significantly added water to the creek. I thought that the high tide just put the sand wall back in place so that the outflow from land could fill things up. Who knew?

    • @desertrat7634
      @desertrat7634 2 роки тому +1

      In one of his videos, you can actually see real seaweed flowing out of this little reservoir. Unless someone put it there on purpose (weird thing to do), it had to come from the waves filling it up. I thought the same thing at first. It was only after watching several other videos that I learned what was happening.

  • @_c_e_
    @_c_e_ 2 роки тому +7

    I did this one year at Moore River in Western Australia (23years ago now) with my hand in the evening. Boarding was fun at the crack of dawn the next day. River broke early by a month or so that year ;)
    Edit: I just want to point out that the current will rip you out over a mile with gaps of grabbing for air. Be warned! I was an avid swimmer, surfer, gymnast and I tell ya, I thought I was going to die that day if not for my rip cord.

  • @SAMZIRRA
    @SAMZIRRA 2 роки тому +4

    this is the first time in a very long time I have caught myself grinning ear to ear watching youtube. Thank you for posting this.

  • @wirosableng8701
    @wirosableng8701 2 роки тому +11

    The grandpa is a legend

  • @opluxna2120
    @opluxna2120 2 роки тому +12

    This is something that they do at this exact spot often, it repairs itself over a period of 3 or 4 months and then some surfers do it again

    • @KingofCrusher
      @KingofCrusher 2 роки тому +1

      Is it bad for the environment, or harmless? I was watching this thinking it looked super cool but there was probably some horrific environmental consequence that would ruin all the fun, hah.

    • @luissemedo3597
      @luissemedo3597 2 роки тому

      @@KingofCrusher the sea takes and brings back sand over the seasons, this is nothing, I've seen whole beaches be devoid of sand one season and replenished the next

  • @capodad2u
    @capodad2u 2 роки тому +13

    I never knew that when we (Scott, Kurt, Brian) and I and others started making Skimboards out of plywood and surfboard foam in the early 1970's at Laguna Beach High School it would come to this or spawn an industry (Victoria Skimboards). Way to go go kids

    • @cranegantry868
      @cranegantry868 2 роки тому +4

      Skimboards in use in Australia before the 70s. Around 1962.

    • @capodad2u
      @capodad2u 2 роки тому +5

      @@cranegantry868 I'm sure they were they've been around longer than that, the difference was the way they were ridden. In Laguna Beach's steep short beaches and perfect shore break it seemed perfect for launching into and riding waves. Previously skimboards were round or oval and kicked along the low tide flat wet sand. We refined the shapes with rocker, rails and surfboard like outlines. All well documented. Perhaps you have reference to film of that happening elsewhere before 1970?

    • @cranegantry868
      @cranegantry868 2 роки тому +3

      @@capodad2u hahahaha, 'sources please', you must be kidding.

    • @MobileICTHengelo
      @MobileICTHengelo 20 днів тому

      @@capodad2u 12 year old me made them in europe, in the 80s, so by them at least it was spread far enough to reach kids in small Dutch villages. Before the internet.

    • @capodad2u
      @capodad2u 20 днів тому

      ​@@cranegantry868sources? I'm just telling you my experiences from surfing etc in England and California in the late 60s and 70s. I went to LBHS and graduated in 75 and knew all the Victoria skimboard crew. Maybe you had a parallel experience in Australia? If so please share?

  • @shanecabbage2187
    @shanecabbage2187 2 роки тому +11

    So, to all of the trollers in the comments, please watch till the end and pay special attention to the sign at the 16:00 mark. This is a naturally occurring phenomenon that was expedited by the gentleman. Also, realize that the lifeguard talking to the gentleman at the beginning of the video would have called the police if he was doing anything illegal or harmful. No harm was done, and some locals got to have some fun while the storm runoff was drained a day or two early.

    • @ImBradCrites
      @ImBradCrites 2 роки тому +1

      That's not what the sign says at all. It says don't go in the creek, it is highly contaminated. The lifeguard didn't call the police because it is in a loophole. The city refuses to write tickets because it is a county park. The county says the state should handle it. No one wants to take responsibility. And it most definitely is not a natural phenomenon. It is urban runoff from lawns and streets. Not the best water to release into the ocean.

    • @shanecabbage2187
      @shanecabbage2187 2 роки тому +6

      @@ImBradCrites you sound like a resident. So then I am sincerely curious: why is the sign down near the surf facing the direction of the water flow and nowhere near the body of runoff water and not facing a person looking at the body of water? The sign also warns against turbulent water, debris, etc, which says to me there would be flow. I have never seen a retention pond with turbulent water. There is also a picture on the sign showing what I saw during the video, not a stagnant pool of water.
      We have situations just like this in Florida, and they happen just like what I watched in the video: rain, road and yard runoff collects in a ditch/large pool until it rises above the high beach sand and creates a creek that flows into the Gulf until it empties. Then the surf brings sand back in and closes it off for another month or two.
      Since I have witnessed this happen for 35 years here I assumed the same to be happening there.

    • @michaelfussell1044
      @michaelfussell1044 2 роки тому +3

      @@shanecabbage2187 and you would be correct

  • @VictorMawhinney
    @VictorMawhinney 2 роки тому +10

    Amazing how that little gully he dug turned into this torrent of water , those kids are having some fun 👍👍👍

  • @happy17761492
    @happy17761492 2 роки тому +4

    These guys will remember this for the rest of their lives and with fondness as well. The stories they will be telling.

    • @bdwilcox
      @bdwilcox 2 роки тому

      They'll also remember the hepatitis and MRSA infections they contracted from it. LOL

    • @MobileICTHengelo
      @MobileICTHengelo 20 днів тому

      they do this like every month or week...... every high tide the sea makes a new sand dam , until people break it again (or if humans would disappear, te creek itself would overflow it and start the same process naturally)

  • @JacobCanote
    @JacobCanote 2 роки тому +9

    Beautiful and inspiring. Thanks for sharing this experience.
    Love your faces. Best of luck!

  • @angiemb333
    @angiemb333 2 роки тому +6

    Loved the video, loved reading the comments! Quite a bit of innocence restored as well as curiosity 😃 Kudos

  • @EllisSchroeder189
    @EllisSchroeder189 2 роки тому +15

    How was your snowboarding trip blair?

  • @gloriafowler2509
    @gloriafowler2509 2 роки тому +21

    You guys are awesome!love how your kids are so in tune!

  • @Deatomizer
    @Deatomizer 2 роки тому +2

    What a great vid, I just kept smiling through the whole thing. Being a SoCal native this took me back. Takes me back to the beach boy days of living life free and fun. Thanks :)

  • @NessInTexas-x2e
    @NessInTexas-x2e 2 роки тому

    This was the best. Made me happy to see all these beautiful happy souls. Have fun always always

  • @johnpaulshaw4010
    @johnpaulshaw4010 2 роки тому +36

    They do it every year and the first guy taking to the camera runs a page that lets people know of the break so others can come enjoy the surf

  • @angieflynn5354
    @angieflynn5354 2 роки тому +3

    Just brilliant and to see the kids having such a good time love it

  • @maikatupua8228
    @maikatupua8228 2 роки тому +8

    It was a treat to watch you guys... respect from Fiji 🇫🇯

  • @figgiefigueroa7372
    @figgiefigueroa7372 2 роки тому +1

    Love it!
    They just drained the system!

  • @josephna4403
    @josephna4403 2 роки тому +1

    Look at how Healthy and Strong these kids are!
    Fresh Air and Sunshine makes things grow to be Beautiful even

  • @denverdanoreno
    @denverdanoreno 2 роки тому +11

    Surf-dude "my leg is burning but let's hop another wave". Respect.
    Noticeable conditioning earlier in day moderate flow, decent boarding. As day progressed so did Surf-dude...a lot!

  • @waveriders6970
    @waveriders6970 2 роки тому +23

    Grandpa is the man Blair, nice session 👍🏄🏻‍♂️

  • @jaicehough6184
    @jaicehough6184 2 роки тому +15

    Your vids always leave me with a smile, would love to see a break like this one day!

  • @BryceDoesLife
    @BryceDoesLife 2 роки тому +1

    ugh so good to watch people just having a bomb ass time chillin

  • @ChrisCanary
    @ChrisCanary 2 роки тому +2

    Can't post photos here, but ... look on Google Earth, that river is supposed to be there. The bridge behind them wasn't built because it looks nice.
    It's a natural, ongoing river that gets blocked from time to time with the tidal sands.
    Pretty cool.

  • @betsyduane3461
    @betsyduane3461 2 роки тому +7

    Millions of gallon of fresh water gone

  • @scroob72
    @scroob72 2 роки тому +3

    EPIC! Thank you Grandpa!

  • @SMA1mommy
    @SMA1mommy 2 роки тому +4

    Love it keep hitting the waves everyone that looked beautiful.

  • @greatday931
    @greatday931 2 роки тому

    Freedom - nothing is more beautiful ... Bravo GREAT MAN !!!

  • @PStew262
    @PStew262 2 роки тому +3

    That was so cool. It brought so much joy to those in the water and those on the sand. ☀️ 💦 🏄‍♀️

  • @markmoyerDeadlegend
    @markmoyerDeadlegend 2 роки тому +6

    You guys are so lucky at times like that beautiful sunset beautiful people and as much fun as you can handle, it's a beautiful thing to see.

  • @Zarathrustraspeaking
    @Zarathrustraspeaking 2 роки тому +6

    The last part was cool, i always wondered about how the sand got filled back in

  • @teamidris
    @teamidris 2 роки тому +4

    Fascinating :o) Maybe the old boy has been doing that for 70 years?

  • @bobdionne4625
    @bobdionne4625 2 роки тому +2

    Something that we never think about in the Midwest.
    Thank you

  • @bachempenius
    @bachempenius 2 роки тому +2

    Such fun at low to none cost. Great idea.

  • @Chris.Davies
    @Chris.Davies 2 роки тому +17

    I wish we had a river that backed up like this.
    Sooooo much better than break surfing!

  • @LordGertz
    @LordGertz 2 роки тому +10

    Aliso Beach was my favorite beach growing up. We would spend all day thee swimming, looking of the pier or at the snack shop. Its still a great beach but I really miss the pier. It was a diamond head pier, designed specifically for fishing with it's open diamond space giving more opportunity to cast. And back then you could have large fires in the fire pits to keep on into the night. People would drive up with stacks of pallets to burn. You swam all day, maybe fished in the morning, had lunch at the snack shop and finished eating snores next two a bonfire and people either playing a guitar or a boombox. It was the life.

    • @MustardGamings
      @MustardGamings 2 роки тому

      Now it's a dirty beach with the sewage spilling into the water.

    • @Yonder27
      @Yonder27 2 роки тому

      @@MustardGamings As is the comment section 💩👤. Life is risky no matter what you do.

  • @MustardGamings
    @MustardGamings 2 роки тому +15

    Also for people that don't live in Southern California . This isn't a river, its sewage water that's why it was like that. These people are not the smartest.

    • @sampson217
      @sampson217 2 роки тому +2

      Lol. Yeah that dude was talking about people getting staph infections

    • @cathybaldry7822
      @cathybaldry7822 2 роки тому +4

      Sewerage is not open to this kind of thing. This is more likely from storm water

    • @jong7513
      @jong7513 2 роки тому

      It's probably stormwater. Even if it's effluent from a treatment plant, it's probably cleaner than the ocean everyone is swimming in.

    • @otanaknanarluq6764
      @otanaknanarluq6764 2 роки тому

      The description says this is Hawaii though...

  • @keensab
    @keensab 2 роки тому

    Owe that senior gratitude and thanks.

  • @raymondriggio7131
    @raymondriggio7131 2 роки тому +2

    The old man just drained a fresh water lake. What a hero.

    • @johnathon007
      @johnathon007 2 роки тому

      He drained a tide pool that is mixed with storm drain and sewer water. It's not a lake or a river like all these morons seem to think.

    • @michaelfussell1044
      @michaelfussell1044 2 роки тому

      🤡

    • @raymondriggio7131
      @raymondriggio7131 2 роки тому

      @@michaelfussell1044 💩

  • @TheKurtsPlaceChannel
    @TheKurtsPlaceChannel 2 роки тому +5

    Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

  • @brotherbruns2989
    @brotherbruns2989 2 роки тому +12

    Given drought conditions in the state, is it worth decreasing the fresh water supply and increasing rates/restrictions, for all people in the state, just to have a few moments of wave time one can get in the ocean?

    • @CodyTaylor115
      @CodyTaylor115 2 роки тому +3

      I must of missed the water recycling plant they divterated all that water from. This is a natural thing it would of haven't eventually had the trench not been dug

    • @honey-jo6ru
      @honey-jo6ru 2 роки тому +5

      @@CodyTaylor115 Your comment make zero sense.

    • @mtadventures5006
      @mtadventures5006 2 роки тому +4

      Forest fires are natural too. Don't mean you should go around burning stuff.

    • @gavincurtis
      @gavincurtis 2 роки тому +1

      California has far worse problems than drought.

    • @brotherbruns2989
      @brotherbruns2989 2 роки тому +2

      @@zfold2617, flowing in and pushing up sand to re-damn the water way is one thing. Opening a path to let fresh water out into the ocean is another.

  • @brandonvasser5902
    @brandonvasser5902 2 роки тому +4

    Doesn’t California have a fresh water problem. Atleast farms are using it to put food on tables.

  • @radscorpion8
    @radscorpion8 2 роки тому +2

    I can't believe a grandpa with a shovel did this hahahaha. What a guy

  • @Mr.Robert1
    @Mr.Robert1 2 роки тому +1

    The word that you guys are looking for is salinity. Exactly what happens when the polar caps melt. Freshwater mixes in with the saltwater changes the salinity of the ocean. Intern creates a world of problems. I don't have the head to get into now.

  • @billyuan293
    @billyuan293 2 роки тому +3

    That's great fun!
    Just wondering if the groove was not dug, would the coming rain water have held itself not forming this river?

    • @gringa978
      @gringa978 2 роки тому +5

      No…
      The ocean waves build the sand up until the water can crest the delta again…. It happens several times a year

  • @mrharry8466
    @mrharry8466 2 роки тому +17

    What a life, beautiful beach.
    Would have loved to grow up where I could surf.
    Great people and great life.
    That long blonde haired guy has got some skills.

    • @Moose803
      @Moose803 2 роки тому +2

      He needs the skills of finding a barber shop 😤

    • @rexrogers1859
      @rexrogers1859 2 роки тому +3

      @@Moose803 Almost funny but not really....

    • @deanomax69
      @deanomax69 2 роки тому

      Don’t you understand that because of what they did there is not going to be a beach there ever again very soon?

    • @deanomax69
      @deanomax69 2 роки тому

      Don’t you realize that there is no beach there anymore?

    • @mrharry8466
      @mrharry8466 2 роки тому +2

      @@deanomax69 You should tell someone who gives a ......

  • @audioaddict420
    @audioaddict420 2 роки тому +17

    Looks fun but I'm not sure how I feel about this with all these droughts

    • @The411
      @The411 2 роки тому +6

      Rivers always head to the sea.

    • @user-ii3vn8tn3q
      @user-ii3vn8tn3q 2 роки тому +2

      This is a lagoon, a trapped still source of still water. Think, city drains, mountain run off, not much new water coming in, maybe rains? Oh it builds up, but so slowly over time that it doesn’t need to constant flow like a river. Its still like a pond. They are natural and along the coast, when they breach it’s a local event. Some lagoons are so large it may happen every five years, after massive storms. It’s amazing.

    • @audioaddict420
      @audioaddict420 2 роки тому +1

      @@user-ii3vn8tn3q thank you for explaining, it's not fresh water it's buildup from drains and stuff. Looks fun honestly .

  • @slayer6936
    @slayer6936 2 роки тому

    The natural flow is back!! Great job gramps!

  • @mwj5368
    @mwj5368 2 роки тому +8

    When I was 14 in 1968 our family lived in California for one year. One of the things I learned was that at least in California it is against the law to alter the course of a river. I guess it's not so wherever this happened. I wonder what greater effect happened up stream etc after this.

    • @animalpower7315
      @animalpower7315 2 роки тому +2

      I want to know who the guy was actually

    • @stuartlee8041
      @stuartlee8041 2 роки тому +3

      I'd worry about the effect this has?

    • @animalpower7315
      @animalpower7315 2 роки тому +2

      Wonder if this is why part of Cali is limited to 2 days of water.

    • @JinzoCrash
      @JinzoCrash 2 роки тому +6

      It's a dirty water runoff zone. It's stuff you'd never have in the drinking water process. Nature usually does this by itself, they just helped it along. If you watch the video to the end, it reforms the beach by itself through high tide / low tide rather quickly.

    • @mwj5368
      @mwj5368 2 роки тому +2

      @@JinzoCrash Hi JinzoCrash! There's an unparalleled drought going on... but I just remember it was against the law in CA in 1968 and saw a man doing the same thing when I was living there. I just figured it had some environmental reason to be serious enough to create a law against it.

  • @tharusthedragon9480
    @tharusthedragon9480 2 роки тому +6

    Before some of you start "complaining", this has been done a lot of times in the exact same place so you can all chill the fuck up.

    • @coldblue9mm
      @coldblue9mm 2 роки тому +1

      Tharus The Dragon It's amazing who many people who comment on here, have no idea rivers do dump into the ocean. I slept through most of my classes at school but I still learned that fact. lol

  • @longWriter
    @longWriter 2 роки тому +4

    Wow. My first thought was "Did that grandpa live on one side of the creek and have a fight with someone on the other side?"
    Then I saw that the artificial creek was filling itself in and self-healing. That's just amazing!

  • @truthwarrior2149
    @truthwarrior2149 2 роки тому +4

    Never underestimate the old man.

  • @dongo6988
    @dongo6988 2 роки тому +1

    Now when low tide comes in that’ll be a great spot to walk out a couple hundred feet

  • @beevo412
    @beevo412 2 роки тому

    This made me smile LOTS

  • @laurabentzinger200
    @laurabentzinger200 2 роки тому +12

    This looks like so much fun! The ecohuman in me thinks hmmm idk maybe not the most enviormentally sound but the kid in me says hell yea thats pretty cool!

    • @fixitallpaul4847
      @fixitallpaul4847 2 роки тому +8

      This where the river runs into the ocean. The tide closes it off and either people open it up or it will naturally overflow and cause the same effect.

    • @desertrat7634
      @desertrat7634 2 роки тому +4

      It even happens by itself from time to time.

    • @ousamadearudesuwa
      @ousamadearudesuwa 2 роки тому +2

      the river and the sea are already close enough that it just happens to be so close that it would happen naturally anyways in high tide.

  • @chraven69
    @chraven69 2 роки тому +47

    Great video, was going to ask about how long it takes for the sand to go back 😀

    • @deanomax69
      @deanomax69 2 роки тому +5

      It doesn’t

    • @rexrogers1859
      @rexrogers1859 2 роки тому +9

      @@deanomax69 😂😂😂😂 Approximately 1 day

    • @shakespeare_hall4788
      @shakespeare_hall4788 2 роки тому

      In Australia now it's illegal to dig out the sand bar! They have frigging signs saying so!
      Fun Police 🚨👮🤬
      It's only helping nature along!

    • @lukewarmwater6412
      @lukewarmwater6412 2 роки тому +6

      Probably quicker than you would expect. More than likely why the guy didn't get stopped and sent on his way.

    • @skinnerboygmail
      @skinnerboygmail 2 роки тому +1

      End of video shows how fast it plugs back up, this was super cool to see!

  • @mouseshadow5828
    @mouseshadow5828 2 роки тому +13

    "Hey you crazy kids! Stop connectin' the friggin' rivers to the oceans for pete's sake! Can't have anything nice! Sheesh!" -even older grandpa

    • @thechumpsbeendumped.7797
      @thechumpsbeendumped.7797 2 роки тому +2

      Why? This would happen naturally sooner or later and has done for millions of year's.

    • @thechumpsbeendumped.7797
      @thechumpsbeendumped.7797 2 роки тому +1

      @Valerie Hockman
      Nope, this happens naturally multiple times a year. Look it up, it's a well-known phenomenon.
      The first time I saw this being done I was concerned for the environmental impact so I did some Google-fu and it’s no more harmful than it happening a day or so later but maybe in the middle of the night when it can’t be enjoyed.

    • @MarvinMonroe
      @MarvinMonroe 2 роки тому

      Hahaha all rivers flow into oceans. Especially ones that are 50 yards away from an ocean

    • @thechumpsbeendumped.7797
      @thechumpsbeendumped.7797 2 роки тому

      @@MarvinMonroe
      Not strictly true. Some rivers never make it to the sea and flow into shallow pans then evaporate into salt lakes or become land locked like the dead sea (which is rapidly disappearing thanks to drought, mineral extraction etc)

    • @johnathon007
      @johnathon007 2 роки тому

      @V H If by millions of years you mean the next time it rained then you are correct... Learn something before you speak and spread stupid BS.

  • @LordDarthSmyth
    @LordDarthSmyth 2 роки тому

    Probably made that mans year to see everyone enjoying his work.

  • @jasone3962
    @jasone3962 2 роки тому +3

    looks like fun! some of the only kids in the world outside playing still.

  • @dangeroustoman
    @dangeroustoman 2 роки тому +3

    The old guy lost his fishing pole upstream, good news he found it.😁

  • @LL-cs2tr
    @LL-cs2tr 2 роки тому +5

    Grandpa's know stuff and are fearless❤️

    • @desertrat7634
      @desertrat7634 2 роки тому +1

      Greatest thing my grandfather ever taught me was how to make a non lethal lizard trap. I don't know if he did it just to keep me out of his hair, but it worked for that and for catching lizards (all of which were released after only a few minutes).

  • @JoshSzerlip
    @JoshSzerlip 5 місяців тому +3

    Will the earth contains 3% of all the water on the planet. Now we're down to 2%. Humans we destroy everything. But congratulations to Grandpa for making a few kids happy.

  • @boldflyer_creations
    @boldflyer_creations 2 роки тому +1

    That's incredible, you guys! Awesome!

  • @brad-t-xtr8
    @brad-t-xtr8 2 роки тому +1

    What is the current stats of this today 06-17-2022? Did it wash away the beach? Does anyone know if it got closed up? Just curious.

  • @mademoisellekaya1438
    @mademoisellekaya1438 2 роки тому +2

    Wow.. And now that creek is called Dawson's Creek? 😉 But for real, the dear man had to have known this has happened in the past and he also was part of it back in his days! Awesome 😎👊

  • @davebeard4987
    @davebeard4987 2 роки тому +12

    What was the impact to everything living in the creek once you drained it down???? Sure, it was only overnight but a lot of things living in that creek can't be out of water for hours!!!!

    • @lorenrenee1
      @lorenrenee1 2 роки тому +3

      I’m always concerned when these pop up on my feed. I hope they were able to put the geni back in the bottle do you speak and rerout the creek back to its natural course.

    • @bella42291
      @bella42291 2 роки тому +3

      It's a natural process too. It was just helped a little this time by an old loki.

    • @nirodper
      @nirodper 2 роки тому +4

      @@lorenrenee1 this is the natural course, google what a sand bar is

    • @ExploringCabinsandMines
      @ExploringCabinsandMines 2 роки тому

      Stop the hand wringing it's neurotic.

    • @buckodonnghaile4309
      @buckodonnghaile4309 2 роки тому +1

      I'm going to take a wild guess and say you live very far from the ocean.

  • @pietromatarazzo7247
    @pietromatarazzo7247 2 роки тому +3

    Unbelievable! great work! thank you to the maker of it! is truly water energy happening there!

  • @adam-bf8li
    @adam-bf8li 2 роки тому

    The fish in the river flowing to the ocean : A whole new woooorllddddd!

  • @JohnBrown722so
    @JohnBrown722so 2 роки тому

    I miss my grandpa. Enjoy your pap kids.

  • @jimjohnson6260
    @jimjohnson6260 2 роки тому +3

    "This is for little rubber people who don't shave yet." Sadly I can't think of a single day where I've experienced as much fun as these kids did.

  • @jasonhammersmith3226
    @jasonhammersmith3226 2 роки тому +7

    That looks so fun but I have a question? Two actually, lol. How do u get it to stop, or do u just keep shreddin' til there's no water left? And is this legal?

    • @TheExplosiveGuy
      @TheExplosiveGuy 2 роки тому +13

      It runs out until it levels off, then the surf rebuilds the sand wall and fills the river bay again shortly after. This also happens naturally when enough water builds up and a small stream forms. It's perfectly legal to do since it naturally happens anyways.

    • @jasonhammersmith3226
      @jasonhammersmith3226 2 роки тому +4

      Thanks @@TheExplosiveGuy

    • @rawkboikorpvillalobos5255
      @rawkboikorpvillalobos5255 2 роки тому +3

      awesome, I knew if I kept scrolling someone would give a decent answer

    • @rawkboikorpvillalobos5255
      @rawkboikorpvillalobos5255 2 роки тому

      thnks

    • @TheExplosiveGuy
      @TheExplosiveGuy 2 роки тому

      👍

  • @emmy6909
    @emmy6909 2 роки тому +5

    Reading all the comments I sincerely ask: Do we know how rivers work? As far as I understand the water (naturally) always flows to the ocean.. please correct me if I’m wrong.

    • @fuckingghey
      @fuckingghey 2 роки тому +4

      I think there may be a few exceptions where the water goes down into a cave or hole in the ground and we loose track of its course but otherwise yeah straight to the oceans.
      And from what I could see in this video the river was practically knocking on Neptune's door

    • @etherealboomslang991
      @etherealboomslang991 2 роки тому

      Bunch of people being dumb and indeed don't know how coastal rivers work.

  • @sydastark
    @sydastark 2 роки тому

    All the little grommets are so cute!

  • @jaymac7203
    @jaymac7203 2 роки тому +1

    What great memories you're making 😊