OT What is rock gardening?

[Tony]

Friend is doing a series explaining the growing sport of ocean whitewater paddling for Canoe and kayak mag.

http://www.canoekayak.com/skills/what-is-rock-gardening/#1rFjywAbCsk6jQHX.97

[CampyorBust]

That's not rock gardening, this is rock gardening...

https://youtu.be/NVjZ9P1Mb0g

Actually that's pretty cool. I would not have the balls to strap myself into a kayak and position myself between a wave and a rock with barnacles on it. Just a matter of time before some enlightened do-gooder determines this activity to be detrimental to the crustaceans and barnacles that inhabit these rocks, and they might be right.

[Tony]

Just a matter of time before some enlightened do-gooder determines this activity to be detrimental to the crustaceans and barnacles that inhabit these rocks, and they might be right.


Actually there has been study that the removal of barnacles on our coast and the benefit as a whole for that environment. "The process is called the "intermediate disturbance hypothesis". Basically if predation or disturbances like impacts due to floating wood, etc. don't periodically clear out muscles and barnacles then they become monocultures and smaller attached organisms become rarer. A few kayaks bumping rocks are nothing compared to the winter swell driven wood that gets driven against the barnacles all along the Pacific Coast."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_Disturbance_Hypothesis

[CampyorBust]

Actually there has been study that the removal of barnacles on our coast and the benefit as a whole for that environment. "The process is called the "intermediate disturbance hypothesis". Basically if predation or disturbances like impacts due to floating wood, etc. don't periodically clear out muscles and barnacles then they become monocultures and smaller attached organisms become rarer. A few kayaks bumping rocks are nothing compared to the winter swell driven wood that gets driven against the barnacles all along the Pacific Coast."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_Disturbance_Hypothesis

Good stuff, Rock on!

[AJosiahK]

That's not rock gardening, this is rock gardening...

https://youtu.be/NVjZ9P1Mb0g


yes thats rock gardening... or there is this

http://exeoinc.com/japanese-rock-garden/striking-japanese-rock-garden-amazon-on-garden-design/

[OtayBW]

The waves in rock garden conditions are called 'clapotis'. Very difficult and challenging to work with....