Beach Erosion Venus Bay

Since 2012 dunes have retreated 36m at an inverloch beach near where surf parade meets cape paterson inverloch road toorak road.

Beach erosion venus bay. Dunes erosion spring tides venus bay. This has been highlighted over winter across venus bay and inverloch with large storm events causing erosion of metres of sand overnight. The town also serves professional fishermen who fish the southern ocean. Erosion takes its toll on byron bay s clarkes beach abc north coast.

At venus bay the erosion on the upper beach may be following this rule but the lower section of the profile may be getting wider and even lowering. Beach by beach erosion panormas beach one. It is not uncommon for many of the birds to die of exhaustion during the migration which leads to the phenomenon known as a shearwater wreck where large numbers of dead birds are washed up on the beach. Venus bay observation project friday september 19 2014.

These popular beach areas like those identified around apollo bay are facing increasing erosion risk from a rising sea level and coastal inundation. These included venus bay cowes foreshore on phillip island inverloch and the beaches on the eastern part of port phillip bay between frankston and mentone. Changes to the wave pattern such as a shift in wave direction or increase decrease in wave heights changes the equilibrium of the beach and can therefore lead to erosion of the coast. Most of those coming along the beach at venus bay are returning to rockeries in phillip island but there is also a big colony at port fairy.

Share to twitter share to facebook share to pinterest. Samantha turnbull the dune is now within five metres of the beach restaurant and cafe. Posted by vbop at 7 19 am. Why is this so.

Senior csiro scientist kathy mcinnes at the site of erosion at venus bay. The rate of erosion at a popular inverloch beach is progressing so fast that it could threaten a nearby road by the end of the year. But authorities believe they have a solution. Venus bay formerly parkin is a small tourist and fishing town sited on the bay of the same name on the eyre peninsula in south australia the town population numbers in the twenties for most of the year but its numbers greatly increase during the summer holidays at the 2006 census venus bay had a population of 139.

Studied the complex factors that stripped the beach of sand at the apollo bay back beach at mounts bay in 2017. Venus bay is a high energy beach which means sand can build up or disappear in a short period of time.