"One of Costa Rica’s most important tourist attractions in the the Zona Sur (Southern Zone), the Tómbolo de Punta Uvita, has disappeared following last Friday’s 9 magnitude earthquake."
Well, the world wasn't shocked by any means. I didn't even find out about it for two months and then just happened to stumble across it in an unlikely source, but here it is, a second sign that coastlines are having troubles (several Japanese towns have high tides rolling through their streets now). And it wasn't the Austral-Indonesian plate moving either. Costa Rica is in Central America, on the Panama plate, which is sandwiched between the Cocos Plate on the west and the Nazca Plate on the south, and the Caribbean plate to the north/northeast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Plate.
It made me wonder if the vision I had last year of the tsunami roaring toward the West Coast of South America will be caused by Japan sinking, in part or in whole. Something similar has been examined in regards to a landslide caused by volcanic activity in the Canary Islands, which would cause a tsunami speeding toward the US East Coast. See http://www.rense.com/general13/tidal.htm.
The rest of the article is here: http://ticotimes.ca/?p=998
"Experts of the Obvservatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica (OVSICORI) – Costa Rica’s volcanology and seismic institute – believe that the tsunami caused by the earthquake increased tides and possibly a drop in the sea floor.The Tómbolo or the “cola de ballena” (whale’s tail), is a stretch of sandy beach located in the Parque Marino Ballena in Punta Uvita that visitors, during low tide, of the area can walk from the mainland out to sea almost one kilometre.However, since Friday morning residents of the area and confirmed by experts, the level of water covers most of the Tómbolo even at low tide and the only way to reach the tail is by swimming out to it.
"And the tail itself is about half submerged in the water and almost completely during high tide."
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Duane did a play on its name a while back. It looks like the entire planet is going to be in big trouble from Fukushima.
Yes, the article is dated right after Fukushima, but sometimes stock photos are used. I still think the article picture shows a greatly diminished "whale's tail," though.
A thong, lol! How does it feel to have a whale's tail in your.... oh, nevermind. lolololololol!
It's all in the perspective. Looking at that coastline from the opposite perspective, it should have been called the butt of Costa Rica! Thus, I think this could support the argument that it was named "Whale's Tail" after flight was invented. I mean, who would want to vacation on the butt side of Costa Rica? How romantic is that?
remember this clip from not so long ago in Brazil..not too far from Costa Rica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTzn2IGRVhc
I don't know if this picture from the article is current, but the tail part does look smaller:
According to the article, the sandy areas out in the water have gone underwater and the tail part (right side of current picture above) is almost completely submerged at high tide. This image is from 2006:
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