Waikawa Beach Ratepayers Association
To inform and advocate for ratepayers of Waikawa Beach
Over the past couple of weeks Twitter user SirWB has published a fair few drone photos of Waikawa Beach. The following are posted with permission. All photos are from a drone and show various views of the river mouth, estuary and river, and Strathnaver.
Beware if you’re viewing using cell data — there are about 20 photos totalling around 10 MB. There is only one photo on the first page, the rest need a click to see them. No captions or alt text.
Since a heap of rain and wind and some high tides in the second half of June, the river has been very low by the footbridge.
It seems the sandbar that forces the river into a slow lazy loop has gone for the moment allowing the sea to flow in all the way to the groyne, and the river to flow out.
Blair kindly takes regular drone photos of the river mouth, village and Strathnaver areas. Beware data use on phone plans.
The photos below have been reduced in size and quality. The full-size versions are worth viewing though, so at the end of the post is a set of links to the larger, better quality photos, each of which is around 9 MB in size.
Another of Blair’s semi-regular river mouth drone photos. This one from 31 May 2020.
Blair very kindly takes regular drone photos of the river mouth. This time he has also included the village and Strathnaver. The photos below have been reduced in size and quality. The full-size versions are worth viewing though, so at the end of the post is a set of links to the larger, better quality photos, each of which is around 5 MB in size. Beware data use on phone plans.
Update: See a 3D model of the area. Also added: an overhead view.
Drone photo of the river mouth, taken on 07 October 2019.
Note: since then the river cut through that narrow stretch of sand and started flowing more directly out to sea.
Compare this with the River mouth photo 20 July 2019:
