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Really cool that the official people are there letting the kids have fun and making sure theyre safe

Great to see the kids having fun...brings back memories 😆

Sometimes when I’m watching KZfaq I wonder “why am I even watching this???”

People that live by the water like this are very unique and almost always positive its awesome

Great video. Surfing is my love.

I like that people are allowed to play in it. If it was USA you'd not be allowed within 100 yards of the digging machine, let alone playing in the active flood canal.

Allmost 3 million views , thanks 🙏 everyone , even the thumbs down 👎 Done on iPhone 6s Awesome 😎

Brings a smile to my face! Thanks!

That tradie was super nice asking the lifeguard to keep an eye on the lil blokes

Must watch? Understatement of the decade. Best video on KZfaq by a mile

"last day of school today and these boys didnt make it" classic!

this is like building small rivers in your childhood but 10x better

Australia seems the place you need to go, when you wanna have fun 🙂😅 !! Greetings from Germany!

My favourite part is the councilman explaining to the boys how this thing could kill them - and then wishes them a fun time as he steps back. Peak Australia, right there … (Thanks, algorithm, for finally bringing this to my attention 😏)

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="217">3:37</a> poor guy had an itch

when i was young on a family trip my brother and me were playing in the sand. we built a little channel from a big lake that was like 30 meters away from the sea...2 hours later it was a river like this...my parents were ashamed and fled with us..i can remember that very well :D

Literally not even the first time I’ve been like “pfft, yeah, probably somewhere in California, but it could also possibly be Oregon so I’ll look it up” and then it just turns out to be Australia

Terrigal is so awsome to live in with beautiful views 😃👍

In the USA this would never be allowed. It would required that everyone stand 1.4 miles away in case someones feet got wet. We would even make sure no kids under 10 could witness this cause it could cause shock due to the quick running water.

Awesome looks like fun!

They should just let the kids dig it out with shovels

“Saw the whole thing, dude. First you were all like 'whoa', and we were like 'whoa', and you were like 'whoa'..." -Crush.

It didn't take me long to realize where this was! ;)

That guy sounds like Korg from Thor Ragnarok

These Aussie kids sure could teach some other children to have fun...so cool.to see kids ripping on bodyboards

I turned up here by searching for something entirely different, man i'm so glad I did

Nature hippies probably tripping balls over this event: "hOw cOuLd yOu OpEN tHe RIvEr UnnAtuArallY".

It's really fun being a kid..

Rumor is that this man is still active in the comments 4 years later, is this true?..

THIS is Awesome !!! you should of gone over to the guy in the Digger and said to him this is Awesome and given him a "HIGH FIVE" and then come back and found some one else to give a high five to

Cool 😎🏄

So for those saying it will hurt the environment, as it says in the video, It is not only to protect the local houses from being flooded if we get one of the rain storms we have been having, but by draining it and re opening to tidal flow it get s the water moving again and preventing a black water event as is commonly seen when these sandbars build at the front of creeks during summer.

Omg he’s hearting everyone!

In Australia we have a saying “It is better to beg forgivness rather than ask permission”

Good fun. Liked.

This seems as genuine as surfing on a cruise ship.

.SUCESSO sempre .desejo a você toda a sorte do mundo para você e muitas prosperidades e conquistas sempre sucesso sempre .Deixando aquele GIGA LIKEEE 👍🏼🇧🇷

Well done Steel, Thomson, bruiser, Macca & Robbo. What an awesome day. Can't wait till see next years effort.

Best comment at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="337">5:37</a>, "It's shit", lol. Everything just sounds so good with an Aussie accent. I'm sure you seen some of the vids of these in Hawaii. Hand dug trench to the lagoons/rivers and they flow for a good 30-40 mins. Nothing but nature's, organic flowriders, good stuff. Cheers!

How fun is that? Way to be there Mr Tim. Hope the fire situation ends soon...sad to see.

Well, not much of a wave but definitely an interesting video.

Amazing vid

When i was a kid, Terrigal lake was let out by a bloke with a shovel who dug a channel a foot wide from the lake and down the beach slope, the water trickled out at first down the narrow channel..But by morning it was a raging torrent and a third of the lake was gone!..Seems times have changed!

This is DEFINITELY SURFING!!! *pulls boogie board out*

this is a natural ebb and flow of river and ocean, if they left it alone for another month the river would break through anyway and then after that the waves would build the sand back up. the reason they dug it out was just to protect nearby houses from flooding it didn't damage the environment;all rivers lead to the ocean anyways.

Wow great aurfing

boys will be boys ......adventitious and brave.....have fun while you still can.

cool

Did I see a young tall roger daltrey smile this person looks like him or her from the 1969 who

great video

A lot more benifical than a last day at school too.

ahh.....to be young again an have all that energy....thumbs up...!!!

I believe the bouncy thing you're referring to is called a hydraulic. Many a kayaker and white water rafter have been pulled under and drowned in our rivers here in America.

That was freaking amazing

To the people who read this I hope you the best in life and God bless you and your family ❤ Also a small youtuber trying to succeed 👍

good to see that there were no council bureaucrats there giving the boys the WHS lecture and not letting them have their fun

cool video!

Nice video

Looks like fun!!!

Amazing beach! All that sand!

I watched a video once of people digging with hands and surfboards to open up a lagoon like this. I don't know if it was Terrigal or not, anyone know what I am talking about? The outpour was amazing.

"Bullsey McNuts" Classic Aussie class right there.

this is little less than an drive hour from where i live! I should go see it next time

How did this get 1.9M ? :D

You sound like Wallace from Wallace and grommet 😂😂

Awesome!!

Cool

Awesome !!!!!!!! Just AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome, Great to see the kids having fun !!

Eddy surfing is so much fun. And no big river-rocks to bail on. Nice!

pretty cool Australia awesome

How do you stop it / fill it in / end it

I have never been an ocean and only seen 2 times but grew up at the lake probably the size of that pond lol. I love water. It gives us peace and tranquility and demands RESPECT

Put that one on My Bucket List!

Love you bro you are living legend on earth 🌎❤️

Must be a quiet kind of place for this to be an event

I live near there and I remember I helped and it was on the newspaper

as a kid during the 60's & 70's, i would be here annually for 2 wks holiday, usually when everyone else was at school. one yr the lake was that full that the Bellbird Caravan Park flooded & they had to evacuate during the night as it rained a fair bit during the week & that night it poured. next morning they opened the lake

Take note kids everywhere , THATS how you have fun . put down your electronic devices and get your a outside .

I would literally live here that would be so fun

I thought they would have surfed from the lake through the channel and into the open water.

Good memories,I did the same in 🇵🇷 in my childhood

I wish I was young again.

The surfboard has sure come a long way from american surfer, athlete, adventor Tom Blake. If there is a wave kids are riding it

That would be so awsome

10 minutes from my house... that spot is well sealed up now.. same at Wamberal..

Enjoyed your video

We used to have our yearly holiday at Terrigal when I was around 10 till 15 and I was there one time when after weeks of rain they opened the lagoon to let the built up water drain. Gues what powerful and high tech machinery they used then, one man with a shovel and about 5 minutes work. Admittedly the water level was much higher that time and all he did was scrape a small trench across towards the ocean about where they wanted it to run. With the huge amount of water built up it was amazing to watch how fast it went from a trickle to a 20 foot wide raging torrent. In the end the big waves that were still coming in thanks to offshore storms were trying to push their way against the slowing current back up into the lagoon. I could catch a wave and be racing through the water and yet be barely moving in thanks to the outgoing current. Great fun and great memories :-)

He needed to edit this more

Awesome fun. Reminds me countryside.

Hello my friend. Great video. I like 🔔 ++

I just waited a bunch of minutes of my life watching this. This comment is worth more then the video i saw OMG

dat aint surfing its boogy boarding

Used to live there...all that extra sand dumped out on the beach makes for some good banks the next few days when settled...

That is so good I love it ✌🏻🥳🤯🤑🗣❤️💕👍💁

Imagine you surving there having fun with the boys but then a gator approaches wanting to join the fun too bruh

It would be great if the cameraman stopped spinning around so dam fast.

Great video this would be a good way to supply deserts with water maybe turn them into forests more people should get involved especially in Africa.

I still remember 12 years ago they made it probably twice as wide and twice as deep and it full created the perfect wave in there would’ve been about 15 little groms taking turns carving up this perfect mini wave was soo cool to see shame it didn’t work out quite like that this time