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Originally Posted by nohmi2
Have just heard on the news that Noosa has been given quite a battering.
Hope that all is OK with you and yours.
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It's pretty gusty at times, and there's big seas and tides. Down in Noosa Woods, high tide is getting up above normal height and flooding some of its lower parts. Noosa Main Beach does not exist again (as with last June), with 8' waves coming in (bigger off the points - I just saw a photo on flickr that would have about a 12' wave being ridden by a surfer) and bouncing off the rock wall that's all that's left of the beach. It looks like this (picture from last June):
but with less beach than even that. The boardwalk is police-taped off (maybe only at high tide), as the waves were coming up onto it (there's sandbags on one of the walkthroughs to Hastings St., to avoid any wave-action washing up there).
The waves are...impressive. Traffic is busy, not just with all of the surfers and boogie-boarders, but with us locals going down just to watch the waves crash in, watch the surfers and boogie-boarders, watch some of the big swell break into whitewater even a kilometre or so out, and watch the boogie-boarders try to climb up the rocks without being involuntarily tetrised into the gaps. It looks like, when it all settles down, the surf livesaving flagged area might go back up beyond first breakwall again, until they can pump some sand back along Main.
Amazingly, we have not had a single house-leak.
Cheers,
Marc