Another pretty morning

0730: you could have had these little close-outs pretty much to yourself...

Hello Friends,

Your correspondent currently providing a battleground for flu bug and immune system. Away side currently dominating. Turning sub-functional grey matter to surf prospects, I note that average size and swell direction (1 metre from the south) have not changed much since yesterday, but Huey must be feeling a bit like I do (this is known as the pathetic fallacy to literature types), because he’s bumped the power setting down to a gutless 6 seconds on average.

There is some 9 second stuff still in the mix though, and I have no doubt the little line I captured in my daily photo is one such. Based on that one set, I’m prepared to guess that you might find the occasional knee to waist high thing to ride your fish or mal on.

The Bureau’s marine forecast starts out on this somewhat laconic note:

Synoptic Situation
A low off the south coast is expected to deepen today and will persist there on Wednesday before moving further east to the central Tasman Sea on Thursday.

What that looks like meaning for us, is a little SE pulse and a fair amount of WSW wind (20-30kts) on Wednesday. Right now the models are calling for the swell to stick around for about 24 hours, with the peak happening during the day.

Have yourself a top old day!

We Love Warringah announces beach policies

Local government elections are coming up and the following item was received from the We Love Warringah party. WLW is running on a set of policies that are pro-beach and pro-surfing. RealSurf will be happy to publish similar policy documents from other coastal Council candidates and parties. All we ask is that the statements be short, to the point, and to deal primarily with your policies about beach and surfing issues.

Dear Realsurfers…

OK – you might think these are the three most tedious words you will ever find in the same sentence together – Local. Government. Elections.

But the people who will control your waves – your access to breaks through parking spaces, rock-dumping extravaganzas, sea walls and beach-side development – are asking for your vote on September 13.

For all Sydney north-side surfers, there’s no more critical vote than the one you’ll cast in the Warringah Council election – the body that administrates the beaches from Queenscliff to North Narrabeen.

In the past local surfers and we, their supporters, have battled to stop a proposed massive concrete sea wall from Collaroy to Narrabeen. We have fought a 250-seat beach-front café at Narra; an ugly development on the beach at South Curl Curl and a three-storey office block and function centre at Longie.

There is one group contesting the election– We Love Warringah – that has been forged from the heart of these battles.

We want your vote so that we can continue to pursue the interests of surfers on Council.

We advocate sand nourishment rather than sea walls; we want to negotiate with surf clubs to limit their ad-hoc expansion; we want to declare Longie a conservation zone; we want to fight those who are dog-whistling the forces of law and order in a bid for “zero tolerance” on the Northern Beaches.

The We Love Warringah team is a non-politically aligned group of local residents who put beach preservation at the top of their agenda.

If you live, surf and vote in Warringah – we ask you check out our website at www.welovewarringah.com.au and share the love.

Wherever you see the symbol of the blue heart – that’s where we are.
Paul Jaffe. Mayoral and A ward candidate.
We Love Warringah

eensy weensy

Nice condx WSW wind and some nice little lines out of the SE – but unsurfably small at most locations. Rosco.

Only for the super keen at Curly today

2 weeks to the mentawais!  It’s 1 foot, offshore and a cracker of a day but Huey is just having a breather before wacking us again tomorrow with a new SE swell of 4-6ft and offshores predicted all day.  Great day to be working from home.  Enjoy.

Very Little In The Way Of Waves.

As the title suggests, there is nothing to report except that the waves are very little. None seem to have the gusto to move anything with a bit of weight no matter how big your mal is. Maybe tomorrow.

Narrabeen Rpt

2008/2009 parking stickers are starting to appear, so the swap is on again  (but we already have plenty of Warringah stickers!). Works like this – if you have a spare you want to swap, drop an email to stickerswap@hotmail.com with what you want/have in the subject line, i.e. “Have Pittwater, Want Manly”. If you want to buy a sticker, don’t contact me. Contact the relevant council, or post something in the Realsurf forum. Oh,….and there’s no surf again today

Lake Dee Why today–but better conditions coming tomorrow

Yep, it’s pretty much flat. Charts suggest it should pick up a tad in the next 24 hours though. At least the conditions will be smooth with westerlies to WSW forecast for the next four days or so, though it could be pretty intense with winds forecast to to be cracking up to 25-30 knots. Tomorrow morning should see some waves in the overhead range though. Cheers, Rob

CC

Fine, dry and cold on the Central Coast this Tuesday morning.  The swell is smooth and small at 1 – 2 feet from the southeast.  There is a light to moderate west southwest breeze .  Low tide 0455 and high tide around 1100.  Local barometer 1011 hpa, 74% humidity, 5 degrees C.  Have a good one!

CC

Fine, dry and cold on the Central Coast this Tuesday morning.  The swell is smooth and small at 1 – 2 feet from the southeast.  There is a light to moderate west northwest breeze turning northeast later.  Low tide 0455 and high tide around 1100.  Local barometer 1011 hpa, 74% humidity, 5 degrees C.  Have a good one!