Waves were expected to exceed 3.0 m height and high tides were more than 1m above MSL, for 22 and 23 February 2013. Yupi!!! We're going to measure overwash.
Lots of stuff to do: charging equipment batteries (only for the GPS there are 4 different batteries to charge), lanterns batteries, check equipment and tools lists, packing the van, buying food, programming equipment, renting the boat and skipper.
OK, we're ready.
We went 1 day ahead to put everything in place to start deploying the instruments at 4:30 in the morning.
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| Base camp on top of the dunes. |
All stations were mounted successfully during the early morning, during the low tide.
Below are some photos of the stations.
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| GPS base. |
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| Station 3. |
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| Station 4. |
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| Station 5. |
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| Stations 7, 6, 5 and 4 (from left to right). |
But, unfortunately, there were only a few small overwash events.
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| One of the few overwash events. |
Not good enough. We tried during 2 days, and then the waves just dropped. The problem was that we didn't had enough tide level. Maybe next time...
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| Data were not good but we kept a friendly spirit. |
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| Happy to be doing fieldwork. |
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| The cold and wind was not so funny. |
Cleaning everything at the end was also a major task.
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| Cleaning the equipment and materials after fieldwork. Five people during almost 9 hours. |
