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We need rain! Cauipe lagoon aerial shot

Postby Toby » Tue Jan 22, 2013 9:11 pm

Today I put a gopro into the kite...I am pretty small ;-)

But this is how Cauipe (Cumbuco, Brazil) looks currently...it needs rain, got pretty small!
Luckily only few kites on it, so still no problem to ride and jump!

All you see that is sand on the right side is normally covered by water...
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Re: We need rain! Cauipe lagoon aerial shot

Postby frankm1960 » Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:01 am

That's weird .. I thought the sea levels were rising.
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Re: We need rain! Cauipe lagoon aerial shot

Postby Toby » Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:01 am

not connected to the sea...
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Re: We need rain! Cauipe lagoon aerial shot

Postby C Johnson » Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:56 am

Sounds like a perfect opportunity for a reverse Waimea River Dig situation.

e.g. dig a ditch across the sandbar. the ocean water will do the rest :)

should make for some sweet standing river waves until the water levels balance out. :surf:
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Re: We need rain! Cauipe lagoon aerial shot

Postby jens » Wed Jan 23, 2013 2:23 pm

i think mother nature is trying to tell you something.
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Re: We need rain! Cauipe lagoon aerial shot

Postby plummet » Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:06 pm

Isn't tahts ocean in the backrground?

Just ride in that. waves are more fun anyway!
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Re: We need rain! Cauipe lagoon aerial shot

Postby frankm1960 » Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:26 pm

It looks like lagoon is separated from the ocean by a sand bar... so I would have thought the lagoon is fed by the sea... if not it must be a fresh water lagoon then... maybe it's a mixture... fed by a river and the sea... in any case a very nice looking spot. Hope the rain comes.
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Re: We need rain! Cauipe lagoon aerial shot

Postby Toby » Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:42 pm

plummet wrote:Isn't tahts ocean in the backrground?

Just ride in that. waves are more fun anyway!
you are talking about world's best spot...no one wants waves there!
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Re: We need rain! Cauipe lagoon aerial shot

Postby Toby » Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:45 pm

frankm1960 wrote:It looks like lagoon is separated from the ocean by a sand bar... so I would have thought the lagoon is fed by the sea... if not it must be a fresh water lagoon then... maybe it's a mixture... fed by a river and the sea... in any case a very nice looking spot. Hope the rain comes.
not a sandbar.
fed by a lake few km away thru a river.
The water level of the lake is also low, so no water passes thru to the lagoon.
Sometimes with really high tide, water makes it from the ocean into the lagoon.
If lots of rain comes and the lake's level rises, the water passes thru the lagoon and then into the ocean, like a river mouth.
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Re: We need rain! Cauipe lagoon aerial shot

Postby Fatfish98 » Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:25 pm

you can have some of our bloody rain free of charge!!!!

Stu Southern England!!!
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