"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

Very cold and showery again

1015: longer wait for sets, but only 5 doing the waiting...
1015: longer wait for sets, but only 5 doing the waiting...

From earlier…
Icy morning wind but a few sets rolling into Dee Why.
Icy morning wind but a few sets rolling into Dee Why.

Hello Friends,

You gotta admire those tough specimens that think nothing of pulling on a well-iced wettie on a showery morning with the temps hovering around 10. Swell has kicked on overnight. The average size at the MHL buoy is not much changed since dusk yesterday. It’s still dead south, about 4 metres and plugging along at 9 seconds apart. It’s blowing hard out at sea and that’s bumping the peak trace (a combination of sets, seas and swell) into the 7 metre range! Wouldn’t want to be on a little boat out there…

As forecast yesterday, the wind this morning is anywhere from 15-30 kts from the SSW. It’s due to fade back a little as the day goes along. The Bureau says it’ll be 18-23 kts this afternoon. Swell is set to gradually decline through the day, but it’s not going to die away by any stretch of the imagination.

Yesterday around lunchtime, I wandered down to the point for a bit of picture taking. You can check out the snaps here. Depending on how the schedule goes, I’ll see if I can get out and about with the lens again today.

Have yourself a top old day!