Grey skies and still

0710: it's hard to catch 'em, even with a really big board

Hello Friends,

Well, no sign of any little south pulse that I can see. At around 0700 this morning there was a single person in the water at Dee Why, and he was on a standup paddleboard. But with all that flotation to deploy, the paddler was still struggling to get into them. Hard to imagine that you could go any better with something smaller.

Wind is light and from the SW along the Sydney coast at the moment. The Bureau is calling for it to be 20-30 kts but slackening toward dark to 15-20 kts. Swell is expected to be 1-1.5 metres from the NE, but I didn’t see anything remotely into the metre range, so clearly the period is very short.

If the models are to be believed, the east coast outlook remains dire through the weekend. There does seem to be some slight hope that we might get some south swell early next week, but we’ll need the continent-straddling highs to relent so that the lows in the southern ocean can get into our window.

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Go well with your day and stay happy!

8:30am Start at Les Bourdaines for Round 3 of the Quiksilver Pro France

HOSSEGOR, France (Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008) – Round 3 of the Quiksilver Pro France will resume at Les Bourdaines in Seignosse, France this morning. A new swell is expected to build throughout the day, peaking tomorrow morning.

World No. 6, Adriano de Souza (BRA) will meet South Africa’s Travis Logie in the first heat of the round. Competition will commence at 8:30 am.

Watch it all LIVE on www.aspworldtour.com and www.quiksilverlive.com.

Round 3 Quiksilver Pro France Match-ups

Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Travis Logie (ZAF)

Heat 2: Dayyan Neve (AUS) vs. Heitor Alves (BRA)

Heat 3: Chris Ward (USA) vs. Ben Dunn (AUS)

Heat 4: Bobby Martinez (USA) vs. Jihad Khodr (BRA)

Heat 5: Kai Otton (AUS) vs. Mick Campbell (AUS)

Heat 6: Luke Stedman (AUS) vs. Pancho Sullivan (HAW)

Heat 7: Tom Whitaker (AUS) vs. Taylor Knox (USA)

Heat 8: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Joan Duru (FRA)

Heat 9: Taj Burrow (AUS) vs. Gabe Kling (USA)

Heat 10: Dane Reynolds (USA) vs. Jordy Smith (ZAF)

Heat 11: Jeremy Flores (FRA) vs. Rodrigo Dornelles (BRA)

Heat 12: Adrian Buchan (AUS) vs. Tiago Pires (PRT)

Heat 13: Bede Durbidge (AUS) vs. Michel Bourez (PYF)

Heat 14: Kieren Perrow (AUS) vs. Roy Powers (HAW)

Heat 15: C.J. Hobgood (USA) vs. Daniel Wills (AUS)

Heat 16: Fredrick Patacchia (HAW) vs. Damien Hobgood (USA)

Quiksilver Pro France

Stop No. 8 of 11 on the 2008 ASP World Tour

South West Coast of France

September 19-28, 2008

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Shoulda’ Been Here Yesterday!

It’s half the size of yesterday and yesterday was tiny! All signs of swell have gonski! Oh, and the water temp is 15 degrees. Other than that…….

Mona Vale

yeeeeww

There was an extremely fun little north swell right rip bowl coming through mona this morning but the wind went south at 8:30 so unlucky if ya missed it haha

Weather fantastic

but nothing happening on the surf front.Hopefully tomorrow there could be a little pulse but it will be short lived so you better not blink.