Late arvo update

Hello Friends,

Well, as predicted, the SE’ly kicked in around mid-day and it’s made the surface conditions extremely messy. I grabbed a snap for you of Dee Why at around 430 this afternoon. Couldn’t see anyone in the water, but there was a guy waiting to rock off into the craziness.

Swell at sea is currently chugging along at 4 metres at close to 12 seconds apart. It’s still dead south and from the look of the data down south, probably near the peak size. The waves at Dee Why looked pretty big, but without humans on ‘em, I’d just be guessing at the size. Trough to crest heights could be in the 4 metre range I reckon.

The Bureau is still calling for SW wind tomorrow morning, so with luck it’ll clean up overnight and we’ll have something for Monday…

Have yourself a top evening!

1630: a solitary figure contemplates rocking off into the madness of 4m south swell and SE wind.

New video of watershots from Dee Why

Hi all,

Finally got around to making a video from some footage I shot at Dee Why point on 1 August 2008. You can check it out at the usual spot, by clicking here to go to RealSurf.tv

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Swell, we got swell

Hello Friends,

Swell seems to have hit the peak overnight, but it’s still solid this morning at spots that like dead south. Once again it looks like the quality wave between Dee Why and Little Narra is at Dee Why point. And being a bright, sunny Sunday morning, there are more than a few folks in the water contending for those overhead sets.

The beach break at Dee Why is big, but there didn’t seem to be too many takers. A lot of work for only the very occasional payoff. Up at the Long Reef end, there’s plenty of size on the bombies, but you’d be doing a fair amount of paddling around to have any hope of getting into position. Didn’t see anyone in the water there. Butterbox was looking confused and messy, and again, no one seemed to be surfing there.

Around the corner at Collaroy there were plenty of folk bobbing around, waiting for the occasional waist to chest high set. Looked kinda slow, but then it is Collaroy after all.

From there up to North Narrabeen, it’s all shutdowns and again, I couldn’t see anyone in the water.

Judging from the latest MHL data, I’d say we’re going to have pretty much the same conditions all day. It’s around 3.5 metres on average out at sea and the average period is about 11 seconds. There seems to be a bit more size down south, so we just might see an increase in the number of bigger sets.

Wind is set to ease during the morning, but then to swing around to a junk-inducing SE this afternoon. Tomorrow should see offshores in the morning and sideshore by afternoon.

Outlook for the next few days is for the swell to gradually back off through Monday and then to go small but, with luck, not flat, through the coming week.

C C Sunday

Fine, clear and cool on the Central Coast this Sunday morning.  The swell is smooth with a lot of water movement at 3 – 6 feet from the southeast.  There is a light west southwest breeze forecast to go south southeast later.  High tide 0825 and low tide around 1405.  Local barometer 1011 hpa, 77% humidity, 7 degrees C.  Have a good weekend!