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San O Done
- Thread starter sushipop
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From what I've heard, it was a drainage pipe installed some time back to help keep the bluff from eroding and to assist with the fairy shrimp habitat in the field near the gate. All the runoff from up above undermined the road down below in the parking lot.
Ok thanks. After my time. I left you clowns in charge and you’ve done ruined it.
Next you’re gonna tell me the Villa is gone.
That's how I see it. From my memory the SanO problem started when they created the vernal shrimp pools and the drain pipe for the area washed out the road just past The Point so they added the rocks. Last year they replaced the drainage and it basically emptied at the end of the rocky area creating the breach we have now. Once that started the ocean did it's job and now the wash out is down to Four Doors.
Paralabrax clathratus (I looked it up
), we used to catch ‘em fishing from longboards with plastics.
Seriously. Sweet jeebus. Last time I was in San Clem too, Cottons point had basically no sand so at high tide it was backwash city. I assume that's still the case, and again, Dana Point Harbor bears some of the blame.
Not the only messed up state beach. I've heard rumors of permanent closure and another for more rip-rap.
damn shame about this one. Spent many a days surfing and hanging with the ohana down there
The bigger issue is all the creeks they have shored up with concrete. Before all the development San juan creek used to wind its way to doheny, and along the way it would tear up banks of soil. I drove by doheny over the weekend and the river mouth should have had a huge sand point like it used to. I didn't see much of any sand deposit when I went by.
In 84/85 there was a good sand bar right as you drove down to San O from a storm, on the edge of the base. I don't remember what creek formed that but it was really good, barreling sand bottom lefts, but there were rattle snakes and poison oak in the water. If anything I welcome the erosion, it's what naturally happens and is important for the surf.
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