Samoan Surf Report for Week 4 of 2009 from Sa’Moana Resort

WEEKLY   REPORTS  for    2009

Report No:   04-2009

Period:           Monday 19^th to Sunday 25^th January

Monday.  High tide 2.35pm.  After a real long session yesterday & not a favourable wind today the guests opted for an Island Tour instead of surfing, see a bit of the unique beauty of Samoa

Tuesday.  High tide 3.22pm. Tiavea River Mouth was the go today with great head high lefts & rights. Barrels on half the waves & the others let you do 3 or 4 full manoeuvres on the goodies. Clean the whole surf & only 2 crew out, you couldn’t ask for much more. 4 hours in the water.

Wednesday.  High tide 4.04pm.  After the perfect waves they got yesterday it was straight back to Tiavea for more. Very similar conditions except maybe a touch hollower.  Again a perfect peak which had lefts that barreled, & long rights which tubed or you could smash the lip. Again head high & no wind so 3 of them surfed for 4 hours. Another great day with a beer on the way home talking about our great waves.

Thursday.  High tide 4.43am & 4.43pm.  Quite bad weather today so there was no surfing today.

Friday.  High Tide 5.18am & 5.19pm.  Once again not great wind or weather so the best chance for a quality surf was to try Tiavea & it didn’t disappoint.  Head high sets peaking up with hollow lefts & rights. A light offshore kept it clean for 3 hours while they were out there. If you didn’t get a barrel the wave would let you do cutties or reo’s. Another awesome surf with only 3 guys on it, so stoked!

Saturday.  High tide 5.51am & 5.54pm.  All guests leaving today so no surfing. Still waves but the south east wind was into it early.

Sunday. High tide 6.23am & 6.29am. 1 staff member surfed out at Resorts in the morning with some head & a half sets. Great waves if you picked the right ones but beatings if you got the wrong one. 1 guest & 1 staff out at Resorts again in the arvo, a bit overhead on the sets & again wave selection was important. Lots of lefts & rights some barreling very nicely. Clean offshore wind all day. Quite a good week of waves.

Photos   

Still no water camera so thought that I’d send you a closer shot of the Fusi to Boulders section of our fav reef, nice hey. That big bay behind the peninsular is where we used to moor the boat.

Cheers …. George

Looking east showing from Fusi thru to Boulders with Coco

Small, but fun this am (DYSH)

29.01.09 news and cams of interest

Hi All

The best of the Australian surf cams I could find this morning was coastalwatch’s Margs cam. Proper waves out west for you lucky pups. Qld, NSW and Vic all look knee to waist high for the most part.

About the best live cam I could find overseas was wetsand.com’s Rocky Point unit on the north shore. Not super clean, but some size at least…

Looks as though today’s high tide spots will be the low tide spots for our kids and grandkids – according to the latest research from the CSIRO. Here’s a taste from the story on the ABC site.

Dr John Church told the committee a sea level rise of 80 to 90 centimetres by 2100 seems likely.

He says strong action now will not stop significant coastal disruption.

“We cannot prevent all sea level rise. We will have to adapt to some sea level rise,” he said.

The scientists say that uncertainty about melting icecaps means it is hard to predict the impact of rising sea levels on the Australian coastline.

I wonder what the rising tide’ll do to surf spots such as the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, Ireland? According to this write up in the Santa Barbara Independent, there’s a good new surf movie about Irish surfing making its world debut in my old home town. The doco is called Waveriders and is the work of a guy named Joel Conroy. Here’s a bit of the blurb from the film’s website:

Waveriders is the previously untold story of the unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing phenomenon and today’s pioneers of Irish big wave surfing. The story unfolds through the inspirational and ultimately tragic history of Irish/Hawaiian legendary waterman, George Freeth. Freeth, son of an Irishman, was responsible for the rebirth of this sport of Hawaiian kings in the early twentieth century. With its distinguished cast of world-renowned Irish, British and Irish/American surfers WAVERIDERS journeys full-circle from Hawaii to California and back to Irish shores following Freeth’s wave of influence. This journey reaches a spectacular climax when the surfers conquer the biggest swell ever to have been ridden in Ireland catching monster waves of over fifty feet.

All time Mona

Same as the last few coupla days, a few small fun ones to be had, only around the low tides though. That mystery surfer on the orange fish was out there tearing it apart again, he’s so hot when he does those look-back floaters hahaha yeah channos.

Sunny one coming up

Dee Why stays small.

Hello Friends,

Very similar looking to yesterday at this time, ie, very small to nearly flat at Dee Why and sunny skies promising a warm day. Sydney’s heading for a high of 28 on the coast and up to 36 inland. Along the beaches we can expect N-NE winds to spring up this morning and by this afternoon it could be pushing along at 20-25kts. There’s next to no swell around in our region this morning. According to the MHL data, it’s about a metre out of the NE at a choppy 6 seconds. From the combined trace, it looks as though there’s slightly more activity up along the far north coast. But only very slightly more.

The long term outlook remains pretty ordinary for the majority of the NSW coast. The monsoon trough doesn’t seem to be exceptionally active and the trans Tasman high looks like pretty much staying in place, ensuring that any systems in the far southern oceans stay well clear of our swell window. Whadya know, another week of summery conditions…

Have yourself a top old day!

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C C

Fine, foggy and warm on the Central Coast this Thursday morning.  The swell is smooth, weak and very small at 1 – 2 feet from the east northeast.  There is a light north northwest breeze forecast to go northeast and strengthen later with a warm day.  Low tide 0430 and high tide around 1055.  Local barometer 1014 hpa, 93% humidity, 19 degrees C.  Have a good one.