"That day in late January, I was at Genn'e Mari , watching the sea when all hell broke loose." Engineer Yuri Iurato , who has been passing through those parts for 50 years, was truly impressed. "That day, I saw particularly high waves, very long, unusually high, reaching all the way to the vegetation bordering the beach. It was an instant. Only the stones remained, protected by the roots of the nearby vegetation. Now, nature's miracle : two months later, everything is back to normal. The sand is back in its place, and the beach is as beautiful as before, perhaps even more so." Expert Valeria Masala, director of the Villasimius Marine Area, says that "nature can do things on its own. The subsequent storm surges and mistral winds have favored this natural replenishment.
Nature has reclaimed its space, as is happening at Punta Molentis, within the Capo Carbonara Marine Park : our beach was also damaged by the storm surges at the end of January. The sand is back in its place. Inside, the vegetation is also regrowing after last summer's devastating fire: the heavy rains this winter have accelerated the regeneration of the vegetation after everything had been turned to ash." The spectacle. Thus, tourists and vacationers this summer will find a beach described as one of the most beautiful on the southeastern coast, which extends across much of the Sinnai area. "The beach nourishment," said city councilor Aldo Lobina , "began after a few weeks. Now it is practically complete." Sinnai mayor Barbara Pusceddu says she has been following the evolution of the situation: "Fortunately, in just a few months, the beach has been reborn, it has returned to its splendor. We're talking about natural, cyclical phenomena: the wind and sea currents have recreated what the storm surges at the end of January had taken away. However, man has the task of protecting and enhancing the landscape.
The Phenomenon Returning to the storm surges of late January, engineer Yuri Iurato talks about the phenomenon that instantly obliterated the beach by displacing the sand: "Huge amounts of energy were transferred to the sea in the form of a wave motion characterized by waves that were not only very high, but also very long, with periods (the time interval between one crest and the next) of up to 10-11 seconds. And the longer the wave, the greater the energy it carries for the same height. That day, such a high amount of kinetic energy was released on Genn'e Mari that it swept away a layer of sand at least a meter and a half deep for a length of at least 150 meters, resulting in the entire eastern sector being transformed into a stretch of stones. It wasn't a pleasant sight at all." "It's not the first time it's happened, but never, at least in the last forty years, had it occurred on this scale," says Andrea Delpin, a retired teacher with a house in Torre delle Stelle. "I closely followed the event and the timing of the beach nourishment. I must admit, I was pleasantly surprised. In two months, everything was back to normal."