Foggy start to Ostraya day

Hello Friends,

DY

The weather people tell us that the gloomy grey skies along the coast of Sydney will gradually break up by this afternoon and we should have a few sunny periods. Not much of any wind around at the moment, but we should see the the SE’ly build up and be around the 15-20 kt range by the time the skies are clearing.

The swell got into the 2.5 metre range at sea yesterday morning, but it has now dropped back to a metre from the ESE and is around 8 seconds apart. That’s pretty marginal for a spot like Dee Why, but there might be something a little more interesting up the beach where the exposure to the weakening swell, but I’d be keeping the hopes reasonably modest. Think mal or fishy rather than your highly tuned shortboard…

Outlook for the next 7 days in Sydney continues to be for weak, summery conditions. As noted yesterday, it looks like the biggest waves will be up north along the Goldie and Sunshine coasts, particularly as we get up to next weekend. The problem is that it looks as though there’ll be a fair amount of NE wind with it as well, so there are likely to be massive crowds at the very few NE protected spots.

Have yourself a top old Australia Day!

ps: Tim Bonython sent us an Aussie themed wave pic to celebrate the day.

Tim Bonython offered us this pic for Australia Day. (Brownwater? Winter?)

Invaders retreating, surf still tiny.

No reason to hurry to Dee Why for a surf — not that you’d be able to find a place to park within a kilometre of the beach anyway, but it’s all but flat again. Couple of folks bobbing around at the Point but is just barely breaking and not worth the bother. Happy Australia Day. Cheers, Rob

Goneski.

That pulse of swell we had yesterday was as short and sweet as a chuppa chup. There’s nothing more Australian as slopping on some zinc cream and heading to the beach though and you may just find some left over swell on the lower tide. In case there’s no swell keep a heavy laden esky near by. Now that’s Australian. Happy Oz day.

A bit grey and grumpy up the pointy end (kinda’ like me)

Grey start to this extra day of joy. Waves have dropped from from yesterday with the swell from the SE-wind is light offhsore to head the dreaded SE and strengthen. Waves in the 1-3 feet range to be expected, but they’re slow and lazy on the higher tides.  Can’t really recommend anywhere-but it’s worth a surf just because it’s an extra one you wouldn’t have if you had to work today. Warriewood maybe OK-S Av. or Newport, S Palm-that’s about it up the pointy end.

Great day for a sleep

super small ,super weak , and not worth the effort.Weather is overcast andvery sticky.

Narrabeen Rpt

The bad news is that the waves are even smaller & weaker than yesterday. The good news is that I went to the Souled Out Film Festival last night, and thoroughly enjoyed two great new surfing flicks – one about surfing the 50 states of the USA, the other about the surfing differences between Byron Bay & the Gold Coast. Happy Chinese New Year, everybody!