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much more information about the
entire coast.
Strong ebb tide and small
waves.
Breaking in entrance.
Packery Channel 10/20/2007
Strong ebb is tripping
small
waves and breaking in entrance.
Packery Channel 10/20/2007
Strong ebb.
little sand in
front of seawall.
Packery Channel 9/21/2007
Note
the ebb plume. The
longshore drift accumulation on the northeast jetty (lower in photo) is
continuing to grow. It looks like the beach in front of the
seawall is continuing to erode. It is gone at high tide at
the
south end of the seawall and is narrow for the south 1/3 of the seawall.
Packery Channel 9/21/2007
Seawall and Packery Channel
9/21/2007
Packery Channel 6/27/2007
Packery is breaking in the
next two photos.
It was breaking intermittantly. At the time that the
photos were taken,
Naval Station Corpus Christi was reporting winds from 190 at 11 knots.
It was blowing harder the day before and earlier today
This is the second photo
for
6/27/2007
Padre Island Seawall and
Beach
6/27/2007
Not
much beach left.
June 7, 2007
The following photo was
taken on June 7,
2007 about 3:00. The tide was flooding hard. Wind
at Naval
Station Ingleside was from 160 at 20 knots gusting to 30 knots.
The pass was breaking intermittantly at the entrance.
The
next link below the photo is a movie of the breaking waves.
Some interesting new survey
data for Packery Channel has surfaced.
This
data was from a powerpoint presentation that was made available to me.
The front of the presentation indicates that the presentation
and
I assume the data are from Deidre Williams of TAMUCC who has been
monitoring Packery Channel, Nicholas Kraus of the US Army
Corps of
Engineers Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory and Carl Anderson, Project
Manager for Packery Channel (Galveston District).
Note
that the depths in the jetty channel are 9 feet or deeper and that a
deep scour hole has formed at the end of the north jetty. It
had
been reported to me by a surfer that the depth on the bar at the
channel entrance was only waist deep. That is obviously
incorrect. It is surprising to me that the waves were
breaking at
that depth in the entrance on 2/6/2007 when the last photos were taken,
although the waves did not appear to be particularly high.
The
photos were taken at 1350 on 2/6/2007. I was unable to
download
the current data from the TAMUCC site. Maybe someone can
provide
that. The water level for the time of the 2/6/2007 photos is
presented with 2/6/2007 air photos further down the page.
Packery Survey data with the
depths shown as colors.
Note the sand waves in the
channel.
Packery survey data 12/16/2006
Note that the 8 foot bar
in the
jetty entrance as shown in this survey was removed, possibly by strong
ebb currents driven by strong northers by the time that the next survey
on 2/8/2007 was taken.
Packery Channel survey
8/31/2006
Packery Channel 2/6/2007
Water Level at time of
2/6/2007 photos
Data from Division of Nearshore Research Texas
A&M University Corpus ChristiDISCLAIMER: The data
described
below have been collected by automated equipment and are furnished "as
is". DNR makes no warranties (including no warranties as to
merchantability or fitness) either expressed or implied with respect to
the data or their fitness for any specific application.