Worth a swim but no surf.

Posted on January 4th, 2009 in Bondi, Bronte, Tama.

Great day but no surf. Looking at the photos up top Narrabeen is going off compared to my lot. There’s blue bottles too so beware. If you have a mate with a pool grab a slab, put the cricket on the radio and crash his place.

Narrabeen Rpt

Posted on January 4th, 2009 in Surf Reports.

Still only waist-high at best, and the nor easters are chopping it up, too

Summertime waves

Posted on January 4th, 2009 in Sunshine Coast, Surf Reports.

At last there is some waves but finding a decent spot is going to be hard.Best chance are Noosa,Mooloolaba and maybe Alex depending on strength of wind.On the souhtern end moffats isn’t really happening. 

1-2 feet of NE Swell

Posted on January 4th, 2009 in Curl Curl, Surf Reports.

We have 1-2 feet of NE swell on low-ish tide which is producing ridable waves at Curly with offshore winds and a decent crowd in tow. Warm water, good weather and a few little waves- not a bad day but hardly epic.  Probably a tad bigger at Manly but blown out, no doubt.  Enjoy.

C C Tiny Surf

Posted on January 4th, 2009 in Central Coast, Surf Reports.

Fine, dry and warm on the Central Coast this Sunday morning.  The swell is ruffled and tiny at 1 – 2 feet  from the northeast.  There is a light to moderate north noreast breeze at the moment forecast to go northeast.  Low tide 0810 and high tide around 1415.  Local barometer 1014 hpa, 77% humidity, 18 degrees C.  Have a good weekend.

 

Postcard from California: still tiny

Posted on January 4th, 2009 in At large, Santa Barbara.

Hello Friends,

Late arvo update: managed to find some little waves at Sands beach just west of Isla Vista. It was only an hour or so before sunset, but there were some glassy little waist to chest high things coming in every now and then. Finally got a chance to try the 6’8″ 7S super fish. Worked very well too. Just the thing for relatively gutless conditions. Weird thing is that I didn’t see any tar on the beach. In the old days there was always heaps of the stuff from the natural seeps just offshore. But apparently all the oil pumping has decreased it quite a bit. So now you know!

Sunday surf prospects for Sydney don’t look to fabulous – but they look better than where I am. However, more of that in a moment. Wind is out of the north in Sydney at around 10 kts as I write this, but the forecast from the Bureau is “N/NE 15/20 knots, increasing to NE 20/25 knots during the afternoon.Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres, rising to 2 to 2.5 metres during the afternoon.Swell: SE/E 1 to 1.5 metres.” So, more junky short-period stuff in the waist to a bit above range most places I reckon. You’d want to be fairly desperate to get wet.

Outlook seems to be for more or less of the same across the next few days in Sydney. Up the coast looks more hopeful for size, but the wind could be an issue. The models seem to be pointing toward a gradual improvement from about midweek as the NE windswell builds up.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean, you’re missing a whole lot of nothin’ in SoCal. There are storms out in the Gulf of Alaska, but the angle is just too steep to get into this coastline. I just had a look at the beach an hour or so ago at a spot called Campus point, and there was just about zip. You might be able to get a mal to glide along, but my new 7S fishy would be pretty marginal. I’m hoping there might be a slight improvement this afternoon… but, it doesn’t seem very likely. Ah well, so it goes.

Have yourself a top old day!