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

Slow Saturday

Stopped by south Narrabeen for a look and discovered there are little junky things coming in. Very weak and messy, but you can sort of catch the bigger ones. See the pics below…

1330: if you take the right toy, you can have fun even in this junk at Sth Narrabeen.
1330: if you take the right toy, you can have fun even in this junk at Sth Narrabeen.

1330: little junky ones on offer along the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch.
1330: little junky ones on offer along the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch.

from earlier today…
0640: no sign of any surfers at Dee Why...
0640: no sign of any surfers at Dee Why...

Hello Friends,

Surf situation could be better. In fact, it could be a lot better. Since this time yesterday the windswell has gone from SSE to NE. That would be fine… if we had any size or power. But we don’t. It’s only about a metre at 7 seconds out at sea, so you’re going to be doing well to find anything much above knee to waist high. The best bet will pretty obviously be those beaches with good exposure to the NE. And take the mal or fish because they’re not only going to be small, they’ll alo be pretty weak.

From the look of the forecast models, we’re not terribly likely to see any improvement to conditions this weekend. A weak and tiny south windswell is showing on the forecast for Tuesday. Whether or not it will actually be surfable is another matter. I reckon that if those numbers are correct (5-6 sec periods) then we’re in for flatness into next weekend.

It looks as though this dire situation will play out along the entire NSW coast. Those of you living in western Vic, far western SA and the west coast of Tas all have a considerably better outlook for waves – as long as you don’t mind the wind!

Go well with your day!

They had to keep my surf report rather brief this morning, but here it is…
702 ABC radio surf report by Don for the weekend of 11-12 Oct 08

I reckon it could be a top weekend for waves in the south of France. Light offshores, fun size and solid west swell… this surfcam could be worth a look early on Sunday our time…