Well folks, here it is....the new Blackwood River mouth, born at 7am Wednesday 18 August 2010. The trench digger is still in place as there is a low tide at 4pm and it will then scoop out some more sand at the beach-head.
Dukes Head channel is only a meter or two deep as they struck bed-rock. According to the local professional fisherman Trevor Price if they had made the channel 100m to the east this would not have happened. He expects the existing river mouth which is a good km further east, to now close over fairly soon. This will help to better establish the new channel. Trevor is pictured right with his father Colin, who with his father Norman and another man, crated the famous river mouth in 1945 using a horse and scoop. He has lived to see history repeated. Well done Colin!
Well folks, here it is....the new Blackwood River mouth, born at 7am Wednesday 18 August 2010. The trench digger is still in place as there is a low tide at 4pm and it will then scoop out some more sand at the beach-head.
Dukes Head channel is only a meter or two deep as they struck bed-rock. According to the local professional fisherman Trevor Price if they had made the channel 100m to the east this would not have happened. He expects the existing river mouth which is a good km further east, to now close over fairly soon. This will help to better establish the new channel. Trevor is pictured right with his father Colin, who with his father Norman and another man, crated the famous river mouth in 1945 using a horse and scoop. He has lived to see history repeated. Well done Colin!
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