At 28 minutes 30 seconds 28:25 it’s quite interesting that global warming is mentioned. But if you think back a little in to our recent white English history which is when the European settlers have been living on this continent in this area over the last 230 years. When the sailing ships arrived with the settlers and sailed in from the ocean and were pushed up the salt water river with the incoming rising tide , they then settled on the saltwater riverbanks and built their first town ship during the late 1790 s. Then into the early 1800s ... The first Timbertown was washed away in one of their first noted tropical wet seasons. Then during that next century the 19th and those early decades. They say there was a population of about 500 people that were a washed away down the river and out into the ocean one night . Horses and cattle in those early years were also brought to this country on sailing ships were washed out to sea. The stories of the original settlers the wise aboriginal people that lived upon the area would only walk and gather foods from place to place during the dry months or at the cooler time of the year. Before the wet season‘s rains would start to fall they would walk back up along the freshwater streams and creeks and back up into the mountains to spend their dreamtime day’s walking back higher up into the mountains and above the low wet land areas. They say they had been doing this regular way of life for many thousands of years. Now imagine if you go back in time a few thousand years , then 10,000 years and then let’s say even , go back 50,000 years. Just imagine the fresh water rains over the last 50,000 years that have flowed down to the sea over that rocky gorge and out through to what we now know is the Baron river delta and into the South Pacific Ocean. The amount of water that has flowed off those tropical rainforest tableland mountains and then cascading down the mountain range to carve and create the mighty Barron river gorge every wet season that flows out into the coral sea over and across what we have built our mighty modern roads , our modern concrete bridges and our 21st century civilisation on. They say in the last 2 centuries there have been many wooden wheel wagons , horses and cows and wooden bridges that have washed away every wet season. Those wetlands which was once a pristine rainforest of the oldest and magnificent trees and the great expanse of white sands , wetlands , billabongs and mangrove trees. Today on that same land they have been mining for sand down and into the wetlands area and they have called it the Baron river Sands. This is on an area of land which was once known as San Remo Island. This in the recent past was a natural island due to the fact that it is surrounded by the river water ways , the Thomatis Creek and the Baron river delta. The first wooden aeroplanes with fabric covered fuselages and wings used to originally land on salt pan flats which would dry out during the low tides. 1920s. The early white English and Chinese settlers 1850s. built up the railroad between from the Baron river and through to the newly established port of Cairns in 1876. Every decade they have been filling in the land beneath the port and township of Cairns to make it a little bit higher than the highest tides during the early months of every year. Probably one of the truths for this next year 2024 will be the people’s of these flooded low land areas will wash out their houses and go out and purchase new furniture so they can do it all again during the next decade.
Great stuff Buzzy. It's been incredible. Born and raised here as well. Contacted QPS about a white car which was surrounded by water on the same road you were walking (Redlynch to Freshwater roundabout) a little after 730am on Sunday. Hopefully no-one was in the vehicle. Unfortunate, for the owner and potential occupants. Saw the same vehicle within your video. We may have been down there about the same time. The tide had another 1.7 metres to increase (estimate) before it reached it's peak that day. Unsure as to how much of that increase may have transferred across to the location itself. Nonetheless, given the 'flooding nature' of the tide under normal conditions, one would suspect some parts of the vehicle would have been submerged as the tide increased. How wild was the Barron River Boat Ramp. Saw someone flying through the water down the service road when I was down there. Was down there yesterday. The roadbase at the top of the Boat Ramp is quite 'squishy' and soft to walk on. Advised the Council when I was down there. Has Greta contacted you yet mate ? lol Take care man.
The last time Cairns was like this was the aftermath of cyclone Tracy in 1974 when it rained non stop for 6 weeks and we had half the houses and people back then
I lived in Kamerunga for 30yrs. The Kamerunga bridge that you showed is normally about 10/12mtrs above the water. I used to jump off it as a kid with my mates. That is the highest I've ever seen the river, though. The highest i saw it was about 2mtrs below the bridge. We used to jump on a tractor tube at Lake Placid and ride the river down during the floods. We could nearly high-5 the bridge on the way under at its highest. I lived in the river every day after school speardiving... back when there were no crocs.
1977 was similar but not as bad from the Barron to Holloways and worse at Thomatis creek. I'd say the current river levels indicate Jasper has set new records North of the Barron. The city flooding was worse in 77 with the entire length of Greenslopes st under 1m of water. The Barron River bridge at Myola peaked at 14.09m @ 17:00 Sunday afternoon which is about 2m higher than the March 1977 previous record of 12.18m and the Cairns airport broke its previous 1977 record by 0.6m peaking at 4.4m.
Any crocs in town streets yet? 18:38 That WW Mason Bridge has gone under at least once I can remember (early 80s I think). It was when that old Barron River bridge at Kamarunga was the back way out to the beaches. This cut off the Northern Beaches and all points north so they had to helicopter supplies for people in need. Keep safe.
Thanks so much for your great coverage of the floods, while we live in melbourne we have property in cairns & hope to retire there as we absaloutely love the place. Take care & much love to all the people of Cairns. ❤
I hope your house is alright 🙏💖 That's my dream too, I love Cairns sooo much❤ I saw the house prices drop during Covid and I should have bought one😭 My love for FNQ started from my parents who have holidayed there for 30 years and we've all seen the changes in population and house styles.
I have watched both of your jasper related videos. Something different and they were entertaining. Great job! Xmas and NY to you and your family. May the fishing god bless you with many fruitful fishing trips in 2024.
Last time it rained that heavy, last time the Barron flooded as high as it did in the rain after jasper, was 1974 according to the old locals round here. Our place on the Barron is about 15km upstream from Kuranda. We are 18m above the normal wet season river level, and it drops about 1.5 to 2m in the dry. On the Saturday after Jasper, we had the river lapping at our back yard. My neighbour's house went under up to the roof. At 8am we saw the little creek was coming up through the jungle in front of his place. By 9am his yard was under and there was water at his back door. by 11am you couldn't see the top of the door any more. I've never seen anything like it in my life. Stayed up like that for about 2 hours and then slowly began to drop by mid afternoon. The next morning we could get back in there and it was just trashed, covered in stinking silt and mud. They lost everything, both on disability, no contents insurance. I had them living in my spare room for six weeks while they house was cleaned out and the wiring was checked out and redone.
@@Thyalwaysseek cairns would not have flooded if they didn’t have to let water out of Tinaroo at 120% capacity when the Barron was already at 12 metres 🥴 lesson learnt for the future
@@samdavis456 Lesson learnt for the future? Dams reach capacity and spill over during 24 hours of torrential rain, that's the lesson. The heaviest falls were over Cairns and to the north not Atherton.
@@Thyalwaysseek exactly. Let that damn run dry if there is any potential that an ex cyclone system might dump 2m of rain into the baron catchment - is the lesson learnt for the future. We were caught off guard If in any time in the next 100 years we are release water from Tinaroo when the Baron is already at 12m - it will be a mistake. Let this one time be the lesson we need to properly plan for the future. Plenty of lessons to be learnt by everyone. If you weren’t sitting at home with your family Thursday-Sunday thinking the same things then you’re just ignorant
I'm born and bred in Cairns. The people who immigrated in from whereever, hundreds of thousands of you, have no idea how much of an impact you have had on the town. Council and developers "paved" natural creeks killing the natural environment, the fish, turtles, eels etc we used to catch there. Turned them into concrete drains so that people could build slab houses and suburbs. The time is going to come when everyone in the Cairns basis really regrets that. A "Queenslander" house was built like that for a reason. This was just a gentle warning.
yes, seeing the black cockatoos losing their nesting grounds to new suburbs has created lot of concern too. What goes around will come back around....the cycle of nature.....stay connected 💚🌏🎄
Not one bit of damage in areas you choose to live where you do this is tropical country bad news for who is in that area but it's nature and it will take it's own course don't try to change it regardless of what you build
Have you looked around the Kamerunga bridge again Buzzy? The change is pretty shocking. I think the old bridge is basically destroyed. The river looks very different now.
Hey Buzzy. I was thinking about doing my first ever casting off the beach for prawns or bait after new years of after Christmas. When the flood damage is gone hopefully. I’ve never done this before so I was wondering if I go to Holloways or machans beach around low tide do you think I could have some success ? 😊 thanks for any advice.
On Barron river there is a Jetty you can catch prawns crabs and fish. I was there 3 months back and locals showed me how, being from Melbourne it was a awesome experience.
Hi at the front of Machans i have done pretty well the mouth of barron river when it calms down abit or the barron boat ramp near stradford at times too👍
for pete sake if i had a dollar for videos like this id be a rich man in cairns totally normal every wet season far out been in cairns since 1981 cyclones joy winefred larry justin debbie nothing new give it up people blah blah seen this before nothing different and its always the same flooded places freshwater park kamerunga all my kids seen worse same shit omg
At 28 minutes 30 seconds 28:25 it’s quite interesting that global warming is mentioned. But if you think back a little in to our recent white English history which is when the European settlers have been living on this continent in this area over the last 230 years. When the sailing ships arrived with the settlers and sailed in from the ocean and were pushed up the salt water river with the incoming rising tide , they then settled on the saltwater riverbanks and built their first town ship during the late 1790 s. Then into the early 1800s ... The first Timbertown was washed away in one of their first noted tropical wet seasons. Then during that next century the 19th and those early decades. They say there was a population of about 500 people that were a washed away down the river and out into the ocean one night . Horses and cattle in those early years were also brought to this country on sailing ships were washed out to sea.
The stories of the original settlers the wise aboriginal people that lived upon the area would only walk and gather foods from place to place during the dry months or at the cooler time of the year. Before the wet season‘s rains would start to fall they would walk back up along the freshwater streams and creeks and back up into the mountains to spend their dreamtime day’s walking back higher up into the mountains and above the low wet land areas. They say they had been doing this regular way of life for many thousands of years.
Now imagine if you go back in time a few thousand years , then 10,000 years and then let’s say even , go back 50,000 years.
Just imagine the fresh water rains over the last 50,000 years that have flowed down to the sea over that rocky gorge and out through to what we now know is the Baron river delta and into the South Pacific Ocean. The amount of water that has flowed off those tropical rainforest tableland mountains and then cascading down the mountain range to carve and create the mighty Barron river gorge every wet season that flows out into the coral sea over and across what we have built our mighty modern roads , our modern concrete bridges and our 21st century civilisation on. They say in the last 2 centuries there have been many wooden wheel wagons , horses and cows and wooden bridges that have washed away every wet season.
Those wetlands which was once a pristine rainforest of the oldest and magnificent trees and the great expanse of white sands , wetlands , billabongs and mangrove trees.
Today on that same land they have been mining for sand down and into the wetlands area and they have called it the Baron river Sands. This is on an area of land which was once known as San Remo Island.
This in the recent past was a natural island due to the fact that it is surrounded by the river water ways , the Thomatis Creek and the Baron river delta.
The first wooden aeroplanes with fabric covered fuselages and wings used to originally land on salt pan flats which would dry out during the low tides. 1920s. The early white English and Chinese settlers 1850s. built up the railroad between from the Baron river and through to the newly established port of Cairns in 1876. Every decade they have been filling in the land beneath the port and township of Cairns to make it a little bit higher than the highest tides during the early months of every year.
Probably one of the truths for this next year 2024 will be the people’s of these flooded low land areas will wash out their houses and go out and purchase new furniture so they can do it all again during the next decade.
Great video, mate. I enjoyed watching it 👍
Hi thank u for tuning in and awesomeness to hear u liked it😄👍
Great stuff Buzzy. It's been incredible.
Born and raised here as well. Contacted QPS about a white car which was surrounded by water on the same road you were walking (Redlynch to Freshwater roundabout) a little after 730am on Sunday. Hopefully no-one was in the vehicle. Unfortunate, for the owner and potential occupants. Saw the same vehicle within your video. We may have been down there about the same time.
The tide had another 1.7 metres to increase (estimate) before it reached it's peak that day. Unsure as to how much of that increase may have transferred across to the location itself. Nonetheless, given the 'flooding nature' of the tide under normal conditions, one would suspect some parts of the vehicle would have been submerged as the tide increased.
How wild was the Barron River Boat Ramp. Saw someone flying through the water down the service road when I was down there. Was down there yesterday. The roadbase at the top of the Boat Ramp is quite 'squishy' and soft to walk on. Advised the Council when I was down there.
Has Greta contacted you yet mate ? lol
Take care man.
The last time Cairns was like this was the aftermath of cyclone Tracy in 1974 when it rained non stop for 6 weeks and we had half the houses and people back then
Mate I loved that video eh. Stronger Ausy accent then me. "Global warming" "how dare you" "oooooohhhhhhh" that part got me laughing.
Stay safe Buzzy and out of harms way...Look after your family mate...This is no time to be taking risks mate .
I lived in Kamerunga for 30yrs. The Kamerunga bridge that you showed is normally about 10/12mtrs above the water. I used to jump off it as a kid with my mates. That is the highest I've ever seen the river, though. The highest i saw it was about 2mtrs below the bridge. We used to jump on a tractor tube at Lake Placid and ride the river down during the floods. We could nearly high-5 the bridge on the way under at its highest. I lived in the river every day after school speardiving... back when there were no crocs.
1977 was similar but not as bad from the Barron to Holloways and worse at Thomatis creek. I'd say the current river levels indicate Jasper has set new records North of the Barron. The city flooding was worse in 77 with the entire length of Greenslopes st under 1m of water.
The Barron River bridge at Myola peaked at 14.09m @ 17:00 Sunday afternoon which is about 2m higher than the March 1977 previous record of 12.18m and the Cairns airport broke its previous 1977 record by 0.6m peaking at 4.4m.
Any crocs in town streets yet? 18:38 That WW Mason Bridge has gone under at least once I can remember (early 80s I think). It was when that old Barron River bridge at Kamarunga was the back way out to the beaches. This cut off the Northern Beaches and all points north so they had to helicopter supplies for people in need. Keep safe.
Hi thanks for the info👍😃
Thanks so much for your great coverage of the floods, while we live in melbourne we have property in cairns & hope to retire there as we absaloutely love the place. Take care & much love to all the people of Cairns. ❤
I hope your house is alright 🙏💖
That's my dream too,
I love Cairns sooo much❤ I saw the house prices drop during Covid and I should have bought one😭
My love for FNQ started from my parents who have holidayed there for 30 years and we've all seen the changes in population and house styles.
I have watched both of your jasper related videos. Something different and they were entertaining. Great job! Xmas and NY to you and your family. May the fishing god bless you with many fruitful fishing trips in 2024.
Thank u merry xmas n happy new year too u n yor family too🎉🎉😃
Nice, better coverage than channel 7.
Stay safe mate.
Thank u😅
Thanks for another update. Appreciated.
I seen big flood 1993 when the mighty Fitzroy River burst its banks it was like big river torrent
Damn bro you look good for 50. The rain keeps your skin healthy 😍☔️
Good vid. Grew up here. Its def getting worse. Stay safe FNQ❤
Comms, UHF CB set to the Road Channel (40) handy.
All our best wishes Buzzy
Thank u too😃🎉🎉
Last time it rained that heavy, last time the Barron flooded as high as it did in the rain after jasper, was 1974 according to the old locals round here.
Our place on the Barron is about 15km upstream from Kuranda. We are 18m above the normal wet season river level, and it drops about 1.5 to 2m in the dry. On the Saturday after Jasper, we had the river lapping at our back yard. My neighbour's house went under up to the roof. At 8am we saw the little creek was coming up through the jungle in front of his place. By 9am his yard was under and there was water at his back door. by 11am you couldn't see the top of the door any more. I've never seen anything like it in my life. Stayed up like that for about 2 hours and then slowly began to drop by mid afternoon. The next morning we could get back in there and it was just trashed, covered in stinking silt and mud. They lost everything, both on disability, no contents insurance. I had them living in my spare room for six weeks while they house was cleaned out and the wiring was checked out and redone.
Gees stay safe Buzzy 🎅🏻🥗🎄🥳
Thanks u we made it through without any major issues😮💨
Get ready to catch plenty of Mud Crabs after the fresh
The power of the mighty Barron ❤ + a tiny bit of help from not letting enough water out of Tinaroo in preparation for the potential rainfall 😅
What are you talking about, the Tablelands was on water restrictions three weeks ago, there was no water in Tinaroo for them to let out.
@@Thyalwaysseek cairns would not have flooded if they didn’t have to let water out of Tinaroo at 120% capacity when the Barron was already at 12 metres 🥴 lesson learnt for the future
@@samdavis456 Lesson learnt for the future? Dams reach capacity and spill over during 24 hours of torrential rain, that's the lesson. The heaviest falls were over Cairns and to the north not Atherton.
@@Thyalwaysseek exactly. Let that damn run dry if there is any potential that an ex cyclone system might dump 2m of rain into the baron catchment - is the lesson learnt for the future. We were caught off guard
If in any time in the next 100 years we are release water from Tinaroo when the Baron is already at 12m - it will be a mistake.
Let this one time be the lesson we need to properly plan for the future.
Plenty of lessons to be learnt by everyone. If you weren’t sitting at home with your family Thursday-Sunday thinking the same things then you’re just ignorant
Let the dam run dry? LOL so I guess you don't want to eat then. @@samdavis456
Hardly even rained at Bingil Bay. Sorry that you guys copped it, take care bro.
Thanks. Glad you missed out You have had your share.
Good coverage
thats some amount of water, will be way too much fresh for fishing for quite some time?
I'm born and bred in Cairns. The people who immigrated in from whereever, hundreds of thousands of you, have no idea how much of an impact you have had on the town. Council and developers "paved" natural creeks killing the natural environment, the fish, turtles, eels etc we used to catch there. Turned them into concrete drains so that people could build slab houses and suburbs. The time is going to come when everyone in the Cairns basis really regrets that. A "Queenslander" house was built like that for a reason. This was just a gentle warning.
Have a frigging sook why don’t you - it’s the same everywhere else anyone ever develops on land to build houses too, so get over yourself!
yes, seeing the black cockatoos losing their nesting grounds to new suburbs has created lot of concern too.
What goes around will come back around....the cycle of nature.....stay connected 💚🌏🎄
@@rebisreturn888 tough titties! Perhaps some bastard with a smart arse attitude should have thought of that, a long time ago!
Such is life.
Not one bit of damage in areas you choose to live where you do this is tropical country bad news for who is in that area but it's nature and it will take it's own course don't try to change it regardless of what you build
Glad the rain has stopped!
Yeah glad its over too😮💨
Have you looked around the Kamerunga bridge again Buzzy? The change is pretty shocking. I think the old bridge is basically destroyed. The river looks very different now.
@@davidparker667 no not yet😮 i will deff have a look when im done with the clean up at my place for sure👍
Actually the old bridge may be ok? but the cane train bridge is gone. Crazy..
"Global warming has something to do with it". Gold mate! Gold! Greta, answer that.
Can't wait to go fishing after all this is over.
Hey Buzzy. I was thinking about doing my first ever casting off the beach for prawns or bait after new years of after Christmas. When the flood damage is gone hopefully. I’ve never done this before so I was wondering if I go to Holloways or machans beach around low tide do you think I could have some success ? 😊 thanks for any advice.
On Barron river there is a Jetty you can catch prawns crabs and fish. I was there 3 months back and locals showed me how, being from Melbourne it was a awesome experience.
@@dcxvi7016 awesome thanks for that! I’m hoping it’s not still closed for repairs then
Hi at the front of Machans i have done pretty well the mouth of barron river when it calms down abit or the barron boat ramp near stradford at times too👍
Stay safe and have a Merry Christmas.
Thank you merry christmas to u and yor family too😃🎉🎉
Hi, great shots. Thank you. Do you know roughly what time where you driving over the Barron River near Lake placid?
Hi thanks for watching i fink it was roughly between 9-10ish
Wonder who casted this spell?
Hope you were safe
Hi and yea we were relatively safe luckily😃
Which day was this filmed on ?
Probably Sunday
This was on Sunday the last day of the rain
for pete sake if i had a dollar for videos like this id be a rich man in cairns totally normal every wet season far out been in cairns since 1981 cyclones joy winefred larry justin debbie nothing new give it up people blah blah seen this before nothing different and its always the same flooded places freshwater park kamerunga all my kids seen worse same shit omg