Wilson Inlet Bar Opening - 2017

In most years, the Wilson Inlet bar is opened, primarily to mitigate against flooding adjacent low-lying land. The timing and location of the opening is managed by the Water Corporation as per an agreed protocol. In 2017, the bar was opened by dredging a channel to the ocean at an Inlet water level of 1.27 m AHD and 100 metres from the Western cliffs reference point.
This was the highest bar opening since 1978 which had an estimated elevation of 1.25 m AHD at the time of opening.
Approximately 27 GL of water (~14% of the Inlet volume) was discharged to the ocean in the first 24 hours post-opening. The volumetric flow rate was recorded as 210 m³/s on the Friday at 2 pm. The high water level and strong flow effectively scoured the bar to a width of approximately 150 metres.
The Inlet height, the opening, impact on the bar and ocean discharge was captured with a drone by Ash Ramsay (Department of Water and Environmental Regulation, South West region).

[@skyclimber3934]

I remember having a great time as a kid damming, diverting, making new channels for water and this would be great as a adult reliving it on a large scale.

[@flaviusnita6008]

As all of us!

[@kasisoot]

I was thinking that exact same thing.

[@2218_life]

You'll like this documentary. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4mzo399iqyNqdk

[@ouwesdebouwes3224]

"The Dutch is strong in this one"

[@maryj560]

I too enjoyed that growing up. ty

[@almonkey1]

at last, a video of one of these events which doesn't have the camera operator shaking and waving his camera around and missing the interesting parts, and wildly zooming in and out at his feet!

[@fredeastman381]

I was away that day........OKAY???

[@PILATUS1968]

finally someone that went to camera school.

[@QueenDaenerysTargaryen]

Drone? Still camera operator did well.

[@SilentKnight43]

@@fredeastman381 lol - you should've sent almonkey in your place. He'd have shown us how it's done.

[@danlightened]

Difference between pro and home made videos.

[@stonehartfloydfan]

Denmark river, Australia for those asking where this is.

[@MrPLC999]

I believe that would be Harding River my friend...

[@andreycanon8929]

@@MrPLC999 exactly

[@johnpalma7265]

@@LegendLength Well it's nice to have some idea what continent it's on. Some of these video posters on youtube must think everyone is a mind reader.Thanks

[@shagged-kf7nj]

@The Bushwacker swimming anyone? Or just to boil!!

[@brenttyrrell4581]

Thank you. Thought it might be Australia,

[@rastapete100]

we have all done this as kids on a small scale.

[@Rocinante_1980]

Small scale !!! 😂 a friend and I when we were teenagers, yes naughty teenagers, at night dug up one side of a pond the size of an Olympic swimming pool at a caravan park. It flooded the whole car park. To this day no one knows who it was. I’m now 41 and it’s still unknown 🤣🤣🤣

[@garyhenderson7332]

Yes we have !

[@ianinezmont2242]

ITS so dangerous

[@HRSE_POWER]

I tried it as small scale and it became a big scale

[@chilihead10]

The power of water is truly amazing!

[@musheopeaus4125]

Especially when fermented with fruit

[@davidkeep6526]

To address a couple of questions. Denmark Western Australia approximately 400klms SSE of Perth . And the water is coloured by tannin from leaf litter but the high rainfall in the area ensures its pretty clean. Great fishing fresh and salt and good surf, just watch for Great Whites !

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Thanks! This is the stuff I like to know. :) Some of the beaches I've been to, you wouldn't want to be wading in the water that came out in an event like this, unfortunately. Glad that isn't the case with this one.

[@davidkeep6526]

@@IstasPumaNevada I live on the Greenough River at Cape Burney 460klms north of Perth Western Australia and up until this winter it hadn't been open to the sea for quite a while and as a result was green, slimey and smelly. I know you shouldn't mess with nature but sorry people but circumstances aren't natural anymore. Huge properties take water and roadworks and bridges change flow rates so there might be a case for manmade intervention to open them up periodically to keep them fresh and attractive to fishers, tourists and others. You stay well friend and maybe some day you can get to visit our beautiful State ! Regardless, keep learning ! 😎👍

[@shemcg7830]

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[@petesig93]

Yes, good point about the tannin and the quality of the fresh water. Some are coming to comment about "smelly dead water", which ain't ever so.

[@Blougheed]

always wondered how we topped up the oceans

[@directpressure3026]

It boggles my mind how arrogant we humans are. Human: I can make this place better. Earth: Really? I've been here way longer & have more experience.

[@brycedavies1437]

@@directpressure3026 the planet wasn't designed with excessive human waste in mind, so the planet itself doesn't actually have a plan to deal with our waste

[@edcolby4808]

@@brycedavies1437 Everything including human waste comes from the planet without exception and everything goes back into the planet without exception, its all just manipulation, thats all.

[@ryanfreeman5083]

@@brycedavies1437 Yes it does. Everything is in a cycle. All human waste is too, now how long that cycle is I cannot say, but it always begins again, and will continue until the sun expands roasting whats left of this planet.

[@AJ-fe8om]

@@ryanfreeman5083 no it’s not a cycle. We are moving forward in time. How do you think it’s a cycle? Tell me in your cycle what happens after the rainforests are cut down? What happens when all the plastic is broken down into micro plastics? What happens after the groundwater is pumped dry? What is this cycle you seem to know of? Have you been here before?

[@WayNorthDrones]

Good looking flight with the drone, nice job on the controls. Keep up the flying, thank you for sharing

[@carpo719]

That was pretty cool, great footage thank you

[@stevearmstrong4561]

That was the coolest thing I have seen on KZbin in a while.

[@Bardiel72]

destroying the habitat???........

[@stevearmstrong4561]

@@Bardiel72 Yes,I had thought about the fresh water life being lost while watching this.Sad.

[@Elvis_3000]

@@Bardiel72 minimized , not destroid. and it comes back every year

[@joeminella5315]

Thanks for the upload.

[@markomarelich1348]

this brings back memories of crossing the inlet on the bibbulmun track thanks for the video

[@Wolfhound223]

Well that looked nicely done. Greeting from N'Ireland

[@DroneCowboy59]

Fantastic flight thanks for sharing with us I love the music also I truly enjoy watching,you enjoy your Day Stay safe and let’s keep on Droning my new friend Cheers

[@hornetscales8274]

Post 10 would love to have been in on this action.

[@gravelydon7072]

Would have dug it out with his hands.

[@russs7574]

He'd start the video with "Hey, everybody," and end it with "This should drain down in about 15-20 minutes." Actually, he'd have thought he'd died and gone to heaven.

[@catweasle5737]

Nice work. Good to see all that brackish water out of the bay.

[@pierheadjump]

Thanks guys ⚓️

[@phi9249]

Great footage.

[@genelomas332]

1:30 in the morning... Would I like to watch a video of a digger opening a sand bar? from THREE YEARS AGO...? sure, why not? Nice work YT algorithm.. you've done it again

[@charlenetubbs2208]

It's ok. After watching Volcanoes erupt, why not watch water being let free!😁

[@charlenetubbs2208]

There's another one from 2020, as well!

[@nikonmikey]

no one made you watch, it's merely a suggestion...

[@NoelLago1]

GRACIAS MUY BELLO Y RELJANTE.

[@Glum1964]

Great video. My blood pressure dropped 30 points. Thank you

[@1sydman1]

What a lovely spot. I love Australia

[@KumaBean]

Very cool video, but I'm absolutely loving the track 👌

[@XCBen]

nice! Looks like a fun place to get drone footage.

[@QueenDaenerysTargaryen]

Very fascinating, more

[@micpic119]

Nice drone work.

[@littleknownphoto]

there goes a really nice, clean point break (eye roll)

[@MarkS-yb1bl]

my thoughts exactly. What a nice break and now it looks like sewer discharge with no break. Sad

[@tehscope9422]

It was like the Ocean was welcoming home a long lost friend .

[@greenlawnfarm5827]

That was a wierd bar. It was like on the ocean and people went there to party and see the scooper machine?

[@davidbarry994]

Fantastic sight! I remember seeing it about 45 years ago, it was a bunch of farmers with backhoes in those days... I wish I was there right now, with a fishing rod! Those pelicans have got the right idea.

[@scottpodgorski4102]

For sure! Where the sediment water meets clear water was probably a feeding frenzy.

[@desert.mantis]

At last! This needs to happen in other locales.

[@mermaidgirl9232]

This is so awesome

[@jimmylabragotto5975]

i would prefer the sound from the drone

[@petesig93]

Fascinating to see all the seagulls and pelicans that have come in after the opening, when the flow has settled. Looking for easy pickings from fish swept out on the current.

[@andyrbush]

I like how the ocean seemed to come up and greet the water coming back through the bar.

[@lc3433]

Fish be like, "Ahh it's the lazy river life for me... no wait. Woah! Hold on." Woosh!

[@luiz--edz8868]

SHOW DE BOLA!!!!!!!

[@ancient_gamerr]

This is what going on in @post10 ’s dreams.

[@yououtuber4176]

Tag him at least @post10

[@ancient_gamerr]

@@yououtuber4176 corrected 😄

[@dashkataey1740]

Heavy breathing. Lol

[@jeffd4056]

He just would have used his rake 😜

[@ancient_gamerr]

@@jeffd4056 Hahah 😄

[@KoJo-qh9od]

Thats one heck of a rip tide!

[@stephenjones6030]

Awesome. But there was a few moments that I wish weren't cut or I wish they were caught: when the "stream" went from 10 feet wide to 100 feet wide. :)

[@ipecaquana]

Bellissimo !

[@chrisrule6921]

Similar thing at lake Tyers in Victoria Australia. Unique water body and a dramatic event when it breaks, either naturally or by machine.

[@vp3517]

Finally all fish families reunited once again. Hooray 😃

[@roberthowkins3097]

There's Nemo x

[@van_demonium]

Perfect recreational opportunity right there.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

There's video of people doing this on a Hawaiian beach, and using their boogie boards on the resulting standing waves. It's pretty neat.

[@shemcg7830]

💫✨🤗That was GRrr8! 💥 What a lesson as it widened; with little bit of encouragement, 🚜 L👀K how expansive love 💗🫂 can be!🤗💫✨

[@stevehollingworth4417]

These inland connections to the sea should always be kept open, it improves fish habitat, water quality and will stop the lake turning into a dead water smelly pond, it happens a lot to the much smaller ones all over Australia. Greenies should research about this subject and stop giving advice about what they know little about.

[@2B_or_not_2B]

@@mikeb1039 incredible wit display!

[@butch7292]

@@mikeb1039 intelligent reply. Not. Go off and do some research which involves research and reading, or are you that uneducated you didn't pass reading at school. ?

[@vpnmtatt1013]

@@butch7292 Reading isn't a class, I think you're looking for English.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Ignoring the trolling, the wildlife of such places will have evolved and adapted to whatever naturally happens there. They don't "need" to be maintained by people. Any sort of biological hazard that happens that is actually bad (like abnormal algae blooms) is usually a product of human activity; agricultural runoff, other forms of pollution, global warming, etc., and in that case we should worry about preventing the root cause, not be satisfied with alleviating the symptoms.

[@moonmason7262]

That's man for you. They cant leave well enough alone. They have destroyed this world we live in

[@markcottierkw950]

Favourite place on earth!!!

[@TimBrindleyOfficial]

its saturday night, instead of getting drunk in the pub im sat here watching this, how times have changed

[@tracynation2820]

Great video. 💙 T.E.N.

[@reddymon]

I do not know why that excavator dug such a wide channel. Once the water starts flowing it was going to wash out that sandbar. All he needed was a channel one bucket width wide.

[@brian.7966]

ANOTHER EXPERT.

[@reddymon]

@@brian.7966 Appreciate the compliment. Thanks!

[@richg0404]

@@brian.7966 maybe you can explain why such a wide channel was needed ?

[@IstasPumaNevada]

I've dug a channel through sand to let water through it before. Even if you get it going a little, there's no guarantee it won't fill with sediment, slow, and peter out. Or it might take forever to get going. Using the excavator means they can be SURE it will progress to empty the whole thing, and it will also be in a shorter timeframe so they don't have to stick around as long making sure no idiots get swept out to sea by the strongest part of the flow.

[@johnortmann3098]

Would it be too much to ask that the description to include where on Earth this is? I'm sure the locals know, but this is apt to show up in recommendations around the world.

[@roystad8916]

John Ortmann It's located at the town of Denmark Western Australia

[@johnortmann3098]

@@somedumbozzie1539 I figured it was somewhere in Australia but it's a big place.

[@johnortmann3098]

@@roystad8916 Thanks. That narrows it down considerably.

[@DukeSteele]

@@roystad8916 I thought Denmark was in Europe.

[@Agnemons]

@@DukeSteele Yeah, but the "Denmark" in Europe isn't a town is it.

[@Theinsidetrader]

Music is lovely, what is it please?

[@prof.heinous191]

Where would we be without agreed protocols?

[@BushCampingTools]

Agreed by who? and now 2 years down the track EIS on the surrounding marine life/ erosion of headland?

[@manoliman3065]

Probably be under the water at least they saved all the houses in Wilson inlet

[@BushCampingTools]

@@manoliman3065 people never seem to think about fooding when they build houses.

[@rob19712142]

@@BushCampingTools fooding? :)

[@BushCampingTools]

@@rob19712142 Yeah "fooding" it's the new word when one types and doesn't check their spelling LOL!

[@iaincraig4871]

Impressive

[@himssendol6512]

2:28 The blue ocean changes to brown. You can see how the river water was pushed to the beach.

[@weepingscorpion8739]

Love the video. But what's the song in the background called?

[@golligosh]

compelling and strangely satisfying (without the annoying background music)

[@AstaraelDarkrahBlack]

The background music hurts my brain

[@JohnAlbertRigali]

I enjoyed the background music. I've seen and heard other breach-to-ocean videos with awful background music - this is very pleasant by comparison.

[@jackbelk8527]

Why the fence? Seems a great place to play.

[@TheG1162]

So the excavator can move without squashing someone

[@damiankaren]

Lawyers.

[@MrSunrise-]

The outflow forms a rip that will kill the unwary.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Agreed with above; safety for the operation of the excavator, and to prevent stupid people from being swept out to sea, causing lawsuits by the 'victims'/families. Remember: Lawyers aren't inherently a problem; they only exist as a consequence of the systems we have in place. They're also a natural consequence of an organized society with a system of laws. Most problems you have with lawyers are ACTUALLY a problem with the laws or those enforcing/making them.

[@kyleswaggard9375]

Every waterfront property just gained 3 more feet of beach width!

[@DiggerjanSpanas]

Awesome

[@RACHIDZITOUNI2030]

Can you plz name this music 🎶 you playing on this video? Thank u

[@E3ECO]

I'm surprised there weren't some kayakers there to take advantage of the rough water.

[@picklep9812]

Is that fresh water entering salt water?

[@yamiracolombini298]

En Uruguay también pasa con las lagunas costeras José Ignacio Rocha y Garzón

[@xczechr]

post10 has some new tools, I see.

[@yououtuber4176]

Tag him at least @post10

[@caveiraskil]

TOP demais essa engenharia!🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[@thomasnell1273]

Some one let me know who the wrote this music PLEASE

[@guiprado2620]

NA MINHA OPINIÃO NÃO SERIA PERMITIDO FAZER ISSO...mas vai saber o que motivou. A princípio acho um extremo absurdo!!!!

[@iamthewolf7277]

was this one allowed? cuz i saw a nother vid similir to this were spomone connected a river to lake or ocean dont remember but the ppl who did it was arrested and sued by the city

[@DaveDexterMusic]

this music is giving me 1998 car racing videogame vibes

[@jlen82]

All I thought was how much fun it would be to kayak that.

[@welshpete12]

Do they have to do this every year ?

[@MrSpikebender]

That's beautiful!!! where is Wilson Bar (inlet)?

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Someone else commented it's in Denmark, Australia (southwestern coast). I checked and they're correct.

[@123TauruZ321]

Music?

[@thomassimpson9912]

What is the purpose of releasing the water? It might sound daft but why?

[@giancarlomoscetti215]

must have been a very satisfying day for the excavator driver!

[@RisingTidesAC]

Does breaching the inlet also clean out the water from the non-ocean side?

[@dualsportgord1]

great drone work . is it a DJI?

[@ravenkbh6685]

I'm opposed to early openings of a bar - especially on a school night

[@GeFajter]

Someone know name of this song?

[@PelicanIslandLabs]

Crap background noise.

[@sarcasmo57]

Year, turn it down

[@co1urzz]

the videos of people surfing/floating in the waterflow are much more entertaining than a COVID fence

[@scooterdogg7580]

OK were the tubes at ?

[@rajeshavirneni]

Nice video where it is.. why they did like this

[@65LB]

Have they always had to open flow to the ocean? How often? Any historical info?

[@danlightened]

So idea, but they shouldn't have had to. Water always finds a way. And since oceans are the low levels, it should eventually go there.

[@margarethollins6531]

I believe that sometimes it does open itself and other times it needs to get opened that way!

[@octavianjulii3582]

Usually a king tide or significant rain events will open it up. The body of water has its own bio diversity that relies on the cyclical process of opening and closing. Most councils tend not to interfere with the process however here it looks like there was some flooring on the road so that may have been why they manually opened it up.

[@margarethollins6531]

@@octavianjulii3582 flooring on the road?? It was a beach and no road near there. If you had read the description it has nothing to do with the local council, it is up to the Water Authority.

[@octavianjulii3582]

@@margarethollins6531 *Flooding 0:13 You are right. The responsibility must vary in different states

[@russs7574]

That would be awesome to come right down through there in a kayak.

[@everready19373]

Why?

[@Noises]

Maybe next time, put a camera on a tripod on the dunes above the bar near Ocean Beach Lookout and shoot a timelapse too. The drone footage is great but there's I'd have liked to have seen the eroision over the course of the day, the difference bewteen ten thirty AM when the cut was made and the shot later that afternoon at high tide was so dramatic. It'd be really cool to see that change in the beach and sandbar happen in a timelapse.

[@onemoresob1022]

gnarly riptide right there..

[@mychalson_bot5994]

Why? Why do it?

[@markgraham6753]

Why is the water you just allow to flow brown?

[@biglostboy]

wonderful landscape. where is that?

[@petermolloy6142]

South-West Australia.

[@abytc2023]

Now THAT'S how to make a surfing break!

[@fanny3942]

Why the water of the inlet is darker?

[@williamwallace5857]

Excuse my ignorance but what is the purpose of doing this ?

[@bretyoung7235]

He'll be back out there tomorrow .

[@dt9094]

Not sure, but what was the end goal here? Thank you

[@swyntopia]

What´s the use of that action ?????

[@scarletbegonias2359]

You could have those same results with a hand shovel, once the water starts to flow the rest cascades along and widens. It might even take less time given that the flow will start a day or two earlier.

[@zackleewright6885]

really you could used a spade and connected them and then hydro power will do the rest.

[@IstasPumaNevada]

Too small an opening and it would take forever to get going and wouldn't be certain; you'd have to stick around for an inordinate amount of time to make sure it didn't peter out and stall. You also would have to stick around a lot longer to make sure idiots didn't fall in and get swept out to sea during the strongest part.

[@peteypops]

Nobody surfing or kayaking the waves!

[@mrcadair]

My thoughts exactly

[@billdiedrich339]

@@mrcadair Me too!

[@JohnSmith-zv8km]

The new me too

[@spaceskipster4412]

👉🏽 🐊🐊🐊 😉

[@TheChate7]

tiny tiny wavesXD