"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

Hot one coming up

Afternoon update: coming back from Manly (cheers Frank!) around lunchtime, I scoped the opportunities. There were very few, but it did look as though the odd one might be coming in toward the middle of Dee Why and up at Northy. Did some other stuff and then finally got in the water at the latter. Moderately crowded of course with the heat and the holidays, but the messy, short period little windswell was peaking all over the place, so it never seemed particularly crowded. Jagged a number of fun ones, but the lulls got longer, so I finally decided to head in. Toweling off in the carpark, and it seemed to start up again. A few in the shoulder high range too. Had my little camera with as usual but only took three pics, two duds and this amazing one of a guy hitting a cutty on the right while someone else goes the punt. Perfect timing if I do say so myself!

Norffy on a little bit of NE windswell and a hot afternoon.
Norffy on a little bit of NE windswell and a hot afternoon.

This morning’s notes:

0730, catching a soft one up the beach toward the pole at Dee Why.
0730, catching a soft one up the beach toward the pole at Dee Why.

Hello Friends,

We’re set for a top of 33 on the coast today. Wind is NE at 10 kts as I start writing this around 0745. The Bureau says we’re supposed to have NW’lys first up, and then it’s due to swing NE and get into the 20-25 kt range. Overnight the dominant swell direction has gone around to the NE. On average it’s around 1.5 metres (like yesterday) and about 8 seconds apart (also like yesterday). According to the data, there’s also some 15 sec ground swell in the mix. However, after watching Dee Why for 15 minutes, I did not see any sign of it.

What I observed were a reasonable number of folk in the water along the beach and a couple at the point on long boards. But the waits were very long and the sets I saw were struggling to get into the waist high range. Dee Why’s not the optimal place to hunt waves when you’ve got a NE windswell, so I’d be looking elsewhere – assuming maximum size is the objective. On this side of the bridge, the usual suspect line up, ie the semi-protected north corners of Queensie, Curly, Northy, Whaley etc.

It’ll be interesting to see what the Goat has to say about our prospects, but in my humble opinion we’re unlikely to see any real improvement for Sydney surfing interests over the next 4-5 days. If anything, the models are suggesting that it’ll be just about flat on Saturday hereabouts.

But… the models are also showing the possibility of a modest south pulse around Mon-Tues. Again, it looks like being brief, but at least one of the interpretations (wetsand.com) thinks we could see a pretty substantial little burst… one can hope!

Stay cool and go well with your day. (As usual, I’ll try to update again later)

0730: messing around on the little ones just off the rocks.
0730: messing around on the little ones just off the rocks.