There’s a little something left

Midday update:

1100: steadily shrinking shories up toward the bombies.

Swell looked pretty small when I checked Long Reef around 1100. Average size has slipped down since I wrote this morning’s report. There were lots of folks in the water and it was lightly offshore, but the waits for the waist high sets were very long indeed. I’d expect it to decrease further today and at this stage wouldn’t amend my comments below…

Hello Friends,

0640: little line trickles in up the beach from Dee Why...

As anticipated, it’s smaller again this morning, but not completely flat – as long as you’re somewhere with good exposure to the SE. At Dee Why, the surface conditions are just about glassy as I write this and every now and then a waist high wave shows up. There are probably a few slightly bigger ones up the beach toward Longy, but you can expect to do a fair amount of meditation because those lulls are long and getting longer.

The Bureau is calling for the wind to pick up from the N-NW and get into the 15-20 kt range ahead of a W-SW change later in the morning, which in turn will be chased up the coast by a southerly change of around 20-25 kts this evening. Could be a plan to get into it earlier rather than later, I’d say. The fact that we have a mid afternoon high tide, adds another argument for alacrity.

Tomorrow’s outlook is for a morning shower along with SE wind and short period SE windswell. According to the computer models, it’ll be flat to nearly flat across Monday and Tuesday in the Sydney region. From about Wednesday on, those same models are pointing toward small, but surfable, east windswell.

Have yourself a top old day!

Here’s my radio report on 702 ABC’s weekend show with Simon Marnie…

Sydney ABC 702 radio surf report for Saturday 8 Nov 2008

Dee Why Today

Samoa Report for week 44 of 2008

WEEKLY   REPORTS  for    2008

Report No:   44-08

Period:           Monday 24th Oct to Sunday 30^th Oct 2008    

Monday. High tide – 5:34am. The crew was up super early and out to Pebbles. It looked small so they motored around to check it out but every where seemed small and average. Pebbles looked the best out of everywhere so back to it and the morning sickness had left it and it was good.  Waist to shoulder high but perfect shape with almost every wave a perfect little barrel.  The guests surfed for 3 hours with light offshore winds the entire time.

Tuesday. High tide – 6:11am. Another early trip to Pebbles and again it delivered the goods. With a new SW pulse it was head high with a few bigger, meatier ones. The inside section was really hollow and the guests made the most of the barrels on offer. It was overcast and rainy but the easterly offshore meant clean conditions for the entire session. An arvo trip to Coco’s was looking the goods till it was quickly ruined by gusty onshore winds.

Wednesday. High tide – 6:47am.  The early boat trip’s first stop was Spot X. They surfed fun waist to head high waves for about an hour and a half before it got a bit too shallow.  Moved around to

Y Tops for round 2 with head to head +1/2 walls. Not really barreling and with a light onshore everyone got a chance to do some turns for another hour and a half session before it also got to shallow.

Thursday. High tide – 7:24am. Same plan as yesterday with even glassier conditions and first stop Spot X for some more good little rights before attacking Y-tops. It was better than yesterday with the waves lining up more evenly and running for longer down the reef. Only 4 guests in the water for over 4hrs and everyone was hooting and hollering like kids at a fun park. Great day of waves with Y-Tops really lighting up.

Friday.  High Tide – 8:02am. Conditions were identical to yesterday so straight back to Y-Tops where again it was head high + with the swell peeling down the reef, producing some great waves. A few barrels and up to 5 turns on a wave meant everyone had a blast in the quality conditions. Only a handful of guys in the water again for about a 4 ½ hr session.

Saturday. High tide – 8:46am. Most of our surfing guests left today and those that stayed opted not to surf. The swell was dropping and the winds picked up from the SE.  R and R and Vailimas.

Sunday. High tide – 9:39am. Clean conditions early and the first session was at Wakas for an hour and a half. Playful waves for doing turns about shoulder high. The wind came up from the SE so around to Pebbles for some barrel time for another couple of hours of clean uncrowded waves before heading back to the resort for a well earned lunch.

Photos   

44a-08 – Ben Lonnie at Pebbles, 44b-08 – Dwayne Peters at Spot X,  44c-08 Empty Y-Tops

Overnight call for Saturday morning

Early risers, the Bureau says you could have 15-20 kts of NW winds early ahead of a  WSW change later this morning. Last night the swell was still out of the SE at around 2 metres and 9 seconds. But the buoys down the coast were showing the power setting rolling off pretty smartly. That trend should be evident this morning with increasing waits for the chest high bomb sets (assuming you’re at an exposed location). The Bureau says the swell direction ought to swing NE today, but the models reckon it’ll stay mainly SE through dark. However you read it, earlier looks to be better.

I’ll update around 0700 ahead of the 2BL ABC 702 radio surf report at around 0730.