1550: amidst the chaos and confusion of low tide and south swell, the occasional rideable one.

Evening all,

Last golden rays of sun are dappling the walls in my office as a fine winter Saturday in Sydney  heads toward evening. Just thawing out from a brief excursion to the Long Reef bombies with reporter PB and a dozen others.

Basically, it was the wrong end of the beach for the swell and very low tide. It was very confused out there. Lots of stuff heaving around in a sizable way, but it was hard to pick the makeable ones. And, they never seemed to break in the same spot twice.

(We’d checked Northy, but it was looking a bit too bone-crunchingly board snapping for our taste, so we left it to the crew and wandered to Longy instead. )

As the light faded away, I climbed up in the crow’s nest to snap you a few of the point and beachy at the Dee Why end. Looking damn fine for the sizable crowd. Saw a flash popping from the water as well, so there was obviously a photog doing some snapping. Very clean and powerful looking… wish I’d braved the crowd – if only to get some pictures.

The MHL Sydney buoy is showing what looks to be a peak in size around mid-afternoon. It got up to 2 metres on average on a period of 10 seconds from the south.

From the look of things, the energy levels are going to roll off overnight and Sunday could see generally smaller conditions, but it should not be flat. Mon-Tues seem set to be smaller again… getting toward flatness. There could be a little pulse around Wed-Thr, and then it would seem we’re in for small to flat conditions into the weekend.

Anyway, here are a few more snaps taken just on dusk…

Enjoy!