Showing posts with label waves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label waves. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2016

Surf in Barra yesterday

We got wet on this one

Towards Melaque

Lorena's foto in front of the church

We wer over in Barra using the ATM machine and decided to check out the beach. Sea level was very high and waves were some of the largest I've seen. The first foto got us wet and Nahima (5 years old) went running.  Lorena took the last foto in front the church.

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Big waves everywhere


I saw this on the Facebook Cihuatlan page but there are large waves along the whole west coast of Mexico it seems. La Manzanilla is reporting large waves where they are usually very small. Yesterday in Melaque it looked like some beach tables were in danger.  I'll be in Barra a in few hours to see how the beach is doing.

Puerto Escondido where it's always large

And then there is always

Saturday, July 05, 2014

New Barra Malecon

I found this on Facebook so it's not mine. Really gonna have to get over there to see what is up. Someone tried to post some recent large wave fotos but their link didn't work

New location of the Mer-people 

Monday, August 26, 2013

Barra under water


Waves on the 23rd with a good sized storm coming up the coast.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Marejadas en la Bahía de Navidad

Marejadas en la Bahía de Navidad - 23 Agosto 2013

Large waves continue to batter Barra de Navidad probably from Tropical Storm IVO that just passed our area. More blah, blah, blah from the mayor of Cihuatlán.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Tear down the Malecon


President of Chihuatlan proposes to destroy the pier jetty in Barra de Navidad

Given the evident lack of funds authorized by federal and state government to help, the mayor of Cihuatlán proposes the destruction of the "breakwater" located on the boardwalk in Barra de Navidad, in order to lessen the impact in the area of on the beach and lagoon.

Mayor Jesús Huerta Aguilar said that the Presidency of the Republic and the Government of Jalisco and are aware of the problems facing the tourist resort of Barra de Navidad, where rough seas have impacted many buildings, the beach and closing businesses,  which has contributed to a decline in the number of visitors and thus has lowered the economic flow.

The mayor's short-term solution "is to destroy the breakwater", the jetty built between the beach and lagoon.

Locals and tourist services of Barra de Navidad agree with the mayor in the sense that since the construction of the breakwater, the swells were taking away beach sand and filling the lagoon.

Presidente propone destruir escollera del malecón en Barra de Navidad

Saturday, July 06, 2013

Waves continue to cause damage in Barra de Navidad

On the boardwalk "Marcelino García Barragán" strong waves caused damage to another restaurant located on Avenida Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. The tides continue to cause damage to buildings constructed in the maritime zone without the date is fixed this problem which worsened for at least two years and has caused excessive loss of space on the beach for a decade.
In late June, the restaurant "Popeye" suffered damage from heavy seas. The storm and hurricane rainfall continues, with the latent threat to other buildings.
Federal Deputy Michel Gabriel Gomez before cihuatlense residents of this community, committed to managing resources for oceanographic study, looking for a solution to this problem. The legislature recognized and warned that the final solution will take years to arrive.
For his part, Mayor Jesús Huerta Aguilar promotes the dredging of the lagoon in Barra de Navidad, as an alternative solution.
Last week, in France, was held an international conference on the "dynamics of the coast", in which experts from 27 countries presented two decades ago the dominant idea was to protect the coast, the beaches, with dikes, jetties and cement
In the future should be built along with nature, that is, "the natural way possible." For experts, the future is to strengthen the beaches with sand sediments. 

Friday, September 02, 2011

Beach erosion in Barra continues

As the passing storms and heavy waves continue over this unusual season, not only is the beach non-existent in Barra, but the beach restaurants and bars are taking a beating. Almost all are closed due to collapsing bulkheads, under minded floors or just the possibility.

A very sad season for Barra de Navidad

Foto posted on TomZap by Flick

Friday, June 03, 2011

Barra washing away?

Two weeks of heavy surf has done it's damage to the Barra beach. There is basically no usable beach the length of the waterfront. Even though the bulkhead still looks solid, water from waves breaking over the bulkhead washed the sand away below the tourist/police office at the head of the malecon. The next restaurant closer to town is also undermined ad has a collapsed floor. The restaurant is closed for safety reasons. The tourist/police office will probably be demolished in place and used for fill and foundation for the next building.

Almost no beach left

No sand behind the bulkhead

Remains of the last bulkhead
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