Sunny but small

Looks like a good morning for beachcombing...

Hello Friends,

Lovely morning for Saturday in Sydney, but the surf prospects are not too flash. If you’re extra keen, you might be able to extract a knee to waist high set wave at a south facing spot. The swell out at sea is coming from the south at about 10 seconds apart on average. But because it’s only a metre or so, I’m not exceptionally hopeful. Dee Why looks pretty close to flat for instance and I’d be surprised if it was dramatically bigger elsewhere.

Outlook for the next little while is not encouraging. The Bureau says we should start to see a few showers toward evening and more of the same tomorrow. That would be neither here nor there if we had some waves to play with, but from the look of the models, we’re in for a spell of flatness through the middle of the week.

Happily those same models are still showing a broad area of easterly fetch to the NE of NZ that will, with luck actually come to pass. Should it do so, we could be looking at a fun size east swell developing from about Thursday morning. Good to have something to pin one’s hopes upon…

Go well with your day!

ps: want to hear my surf report and forecast chat from this morning on ABC 702? Click here!

Pretty sky above South Head

Classic Hawkesbury river fog splashes over Lion Island around 0915.

south-west vancouver island

on friday at 630 pm: very small waves at our rivermouth point – on the other hand, they were long, steady and well-shaped – the straits at our own fishtrap beach, further from the open ocean, were also quite agitated today, full of hollow bowls – all this suggests strongly, quite decent wave conditions at our lost village beach, one half-hour’s drive beyond our rivermouth point, near the open ocean – yay ! strong marine wind warning in effect, northwesterly to 30 knots – please stay tuned….

Narrabeen Rpt

Next season’s parking stickers are starting to appear, so the swap is on again, but I DON’T NEED ANY MORE 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, and er, we don’t really have any waves today

Mona Vale

Wasn’t able to get a photo up for you this morning but i can tell you that MV had some sick looking waves out there, only about waist high but really nice looking shapes! Plenty of guys getting amongst it too. happy b’day to my brother Ben Skerman too- i saw ya ripping out there this morning, spewin i slept in! yeeeww

A Mate Called Mal.

If you have a mate called Mal take him for a surf this morning. Perfect conditions for Mal ’cause he is the only one who can handle knee to waist high and weak surf. There are lots of Mal’s mates at Bondi ’cause it faces south, straight into the eye of this ferocious 2 foot southerly swell. A couple of Mal’s more trendy mates are at Bronte and Tama. Hopefully if things improve, and you have a mate called Fish………

C C Small and Weak

Fine, clear and cold on the Central Coast this Saturday morning.  The swell is smooth, weak and small at 1 – 2 feet from the east southeast.  There is a light west southwest breeze forecast to go northeast later.  High tide 0745 and low tide around 1335.  Local barometer 1014 hpa, 97% humidity, 8 degrees C.  Have a great weekend!