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

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

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

Great video. Surfing is my love.

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

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.

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

Brings a smile to my face! Thanks!

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

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

3:37 poor guy had an itch

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!

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

Looks like fun!!!

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

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 😏)

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

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

Awesome looks like fun!

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

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

Wow great aurfing

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

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.

Amazing vid

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

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

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 :-)

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

Good fun. Liked.

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

They should just let the kids dig it out with shovels

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!

great video

It's really fun being a kid..

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

That looks so much fun

That guy sounds like Korg from Thor Ragnarok

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.

I wish I was young again.

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

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

This seems as genuine as surfing on a cruise ship.

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.

Best comment at 5:37, "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!

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

cool video!

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

Love you bro you are living legend on earth 🌎❤️

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

Awesome, Great to see the kids having fun !!

Put that one on My Bucket List!

That is so good I love it ✌🏻🥳🤯🤑🗣❤️💕👍💁

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

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

Awesome!!

Hi I love you woman you are so pretty in fact you are the most Biutifull creation that God has ever done

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

Amazing beach! All that sand!

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.

Not sure why but i really enjoyed this video with your narration and everything. Thanks for uploading

Omg he’s hearting everyone!

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

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

Kids are having a good time

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

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

Nice video

Awesome fun. Reminds me countryside.

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.

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

cool

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 👍

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

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

Been there done that. Was back in the 80s no machinery just a bunch of us digging.

Wat a vid 🤩 wow that cool man

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

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.

Enjoyed your video

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

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

That would be so awsome

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

I love river breaks good form mate

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

I would literally live here that would be so fun

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

Thanks for the video!! :)

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

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...

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

That looked fun

You mean the houses UPstream -- downstream is the ocean mate.

That was freaking amazing

pretty cool Australia awesome