Will this Save the Sea Cliff from Collapse?

This is a major development. That's the hardest working dude at Caltrans right there. Oh this one's gonna smack the wall really good. There's definitely a hole in the bottom. Yeah. We're way back from Newport and of course there's something going on at the Crystal Grove crack or the fracture in the cliff. We had a Caltrans putting a bunch of plastic tarps to prepare for the rain coming. I think that's the only thing that the tarp is probably going to be good for it's definitely not blocking the waves from hitting the bottom the rain is coming he'll never see this crack ever again dang it gotta get my last crack in dude this is where the crack is and the tarp is over there they're doing the whole thing they're gonna have to tarp the whole hillside i think kind of help avoid a major slide with all the rain this is a major development look at this guy in the water down here oh gosh gosh darn why are they doing this at high tide that's the hardest worker that's the hardest working dude at Caltrans right there just back to the ocean just taking it it's kind of a medal of honor what's gonna happen with that pipe when it uh that pipe doesn't work anymore i don't think i think that's old infrastructure but i could be wrong it has to be that would be crazy to put a tarp over a pipe a storm drain dude this is a major development this is what's crazy to me too is like this tarp's not going to do anything with the ocean washing up like all it's going to do is save save the bluff maybe some time from rain but it's not going to prevent the ocean from just completely smoking it they've got a lot of tarpon to do that's a big project i'm pretty certain that crack is definitely look at this thing it looks wider yeah for sure right yeah i don't think it's all gonna go at once i think it's just gonna gradually get bigger and bigger unless i'm wrong and maybe it just takes i'm gonna reattach it so what are you gonna do oh you guys are out of here i think like the rain's only coming wednesday now oh this guy might be emptying his boots out too this guy's like why am i here just shaking his head he's like dude i'm up to my waist he he actually almost got washed away on the one really yeah is the tide high right now is it going down it's it's no it's high tide right now he's so he's so over it i mean i don't blame him yeah they should have watched the tides it actually looks different too oh look at this is way smaller wouldn't you say like these little chunks are not as big as they were this is a only a four point four foot high tide to what's crazy though is it's still washing up to the bottom of the cliff at a four point four foot high this is gonna be the lowest tide that we've looked at down here but even the low tide there's waves still coming up and hitting the hitting the so I don't know it'll be interesting to see we saw we saw like a hole in front of the certain sand wall the other day and now that it's a little bit lower tide we're gonna go see if if it's actually a hole or what it is yeah check it out some more same spots but we found found some different stuff after looking looking closely at some of the old shots we got sand coming back sand coming back this one's gonna smack the wall really good yep that was a good one man swell's still pretty good size right now the big ones actually are breaking out kind of far and i think they're not hitting the wall as hard as the the smaller ones are all pretty good though that's still a really good size wave this is kind of old news but about two weeks ago a part of the bluff below the agate street public access just sloughed off and they have this completely blocked they have a lot of public accesses completely blocked because there's no ending you can walk down to the bottom of these and you're in a death pit of rocks and ocean just waves hitting the bluff so yeah this is uh this is probably some of like the worst it's ever been here as far as like sand loss goes there was actually a little bit more sand in front of the surfing sand but it's still still looking more like the surfing boulder than the surfing sand how was that crack looking in the there's definitely a hole in the bottom yeah from the waves or do you think it was there already i honestly don't know it was hard to see on the LCD yeah the surface looks so peaceful from up here back here at beautiful Eliso so this tractor yesterday was putting in new uh new boulders over here trying to harbor the coming season or maybe the Eliso construction site four tractors in the parking lot not a great sign but hey look they got all the sand uh off there people on those light poles like hang out right outside your car oh i've stood on those light poles that's what those are yeah those are gone yeah i've been noticing that there's not a whole lot of lifeguards in any of the towers in Laguna anymore and uh this is probably one of the few beaches this thousand steps maybe like West Street um where there are lifeguards in a tower but basically there's no beaches to lifeguard anymore so it seems like there's a lot of uh unmanned towers on the weekend and pretty much just a roving um lifeguard truck is my that's my guess of what they're doing but i think normally on a weekend they would have their towers completely filled or full but i think now with like you literally can't go down to the beach at mountain you can't go down to the beach at crest really you can't go down to the beach at Thalia like they're not putting lifeguards in those towers and uh on the weekend too you know there's there's no lifeguards in that mountain tower today like businesses and local people are impacted more than more by this than he just showed me just started watching your stuff when we were down here the other day we saw that palm tree getting pulled down and that's one of many that have gotten taken down in this lot they're used to line a lot of this front part of the parking lot like this whole zone was like a a green area you could stand on like a little grass patch with palm tree and you could see that the full root systems were exposed and they just weren't hanging on to anything anymore so they had to take a lot of them down just for safety reasons so they were pretty compromised Peruna you want to go back to the crack