Samoan Surf report for Week 5 of 2009 from Sa’Moana Resort

WEEKLY REPORTS for 2009

Report No: 05-09
Period: Monday 26th January to Sunday 1st February.

Monday. High tides @ 6.53an & 7.02pm. The swell was still hanging about around head high & very glassy. Lefts & rights out @ Resorts, which were really barreling. With only 2 of them out they got a heap of waves for about 2 hours in the morning.

Tuesday. High tides @ 7.24am & 7.36pm. Early surf at Resorts. The swell had dropped a bit over night and was around shoulder to head high with still some great waves in super glassy conditions and only a few crew in the water. An arvo session out front in similar conditions to the AM.

Wednesday. High tides @ 7.58am & 8.13pm. One of the guides took the jetski with one surfing guest to Special K. where sets were up to head high and a bit of a wait between. But it was certainly worth the wait with the swells lining up beautifully and running down the reef nicely. Clean glassy conditions with absolutely no one around.

Thursday. High tides @ 8.34am & 8.52pm. The swell had continued to drop in size and was pushing in around waist to chest high so the crew a few fun little ones at Resorts in a rather short session.

Friday. High tides @ 9.17am & 9.38pm. Super clean conditions on the south side, with light offshore winds. Unfortunately only waist high swell. Little rights at Resorts.

Saturday. High tide @ 10.09am. A nice new SSW swell arrived and with clean conditions, all the spots they checked had waves. Opted for Coco’s which was easily the biggest with the occasional set double head high on the take off. Most were around head high and a few barreled if you picked the right one. The wind came up light from the SSE and it was enough to make it section so they moved to Pebbles which was also a little wind affected but had a nice shape. Both the back peak and inside section had good waves with the occasional one linking through.

Sunday. High tide @ 11.12am. Spent most off the day at Pebbles which was particularly good for the first 3 hrs with not a drop of water out of place. The swell was hitting it well with lots of easy barrels on offer. A good fun size, and the sets were just big enough to keep you on your toes but not life threatening.

Photos
A few random shots taken during the week out @ Resorts

Cheers …………..George

Barrel sequence #2 out front @ Resorts

Barrel sequence #1 out front at Resorts

More of out front at Resorts

Out front @ Resorts

Bikes for Beaches. . . UPDATE

WHERE ARE DAVE AND FOULSH NOW:

4 Feb 2009: Left Batemans Bay yesterday. On their way to Mallacoota.

Latest pics:

 

Dave and Foulsh in Milton

Dave and Foulsh heading towards Batemans Bay

 

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For the full story about this adventure: Bikes for Beaches . . .FULL PRESS

Have a laugh: Hitler’s shaper

I’d say every surfer on the planet will have seen this mashup within the next 24 hours…

Mr Hitler isn’t happy about his surf trip, guess why…(click to follow link)
……
Actually, there have been numerous other mashups on this clip. Here’s one provoked by, of all things, Nikon’s new D3x pro camera.

and finally, here’s the wonderful Mr. Hilter sketch from the Monty Python boys, circa 1970

Grey, flat.

Nothing posititve to report from the Dee Why vantage point this morning other than perhaps the overcast skies have begun to clear in the past five minutes. Surf still pretty much non-existent. Cheers, Rob

Manly

Manly is a continuation of the tiny dribbles of the last week.

Looking small along the whole beach front

Grey skies and tiny waves

If you're gonna ride 'em at Dee Why, you'll need the right gear.

Hello Friends,

From my excellent vantage point at South Curly, I can see the little east south east swell angling in. It’s pretty listless though. Kinda like my notebook battery which seems to be on the point of fading out. The MHL buoy is telling us that we have about a metre on average of 7sec period windswell. What this means, as the pictures I’ve posted illustrate, is that we’re facing marginal conditions, to put it mildly. 

The biggest wave I’ve seen this morning was in the middle of Curly. It was maybe waist high for four or five seconds before it sank away to nothing. Still, the guy on it was doing better than yours truly has since returning from Cali, so I’m not feeling in the slightest bit superior.

(battery died, so now somewhat later…)

It looks to me from the data that one has to travel a long way north from Sydney to get a chance at a reasonable wave.  And even then, I’m not sure how spectacular the options will be. Might have a look at some cams later to see if I can find anything of interest on that front. 

Outlook through the rest of the work week seems to be pretty much more of the same, ie a metre or so at sea and 6-7 sec from the ESE to ENE. Wind today is set to be 8/13 kts SE, swinging NE in the arvo, but not picking up much. Tomorrow the NE should kick in harder in the afternoon and maybe drive up something at NE windswell spots toward late afternoon. 

Go well with your plans!

...by a palm tree in the sand, oh I wish they all could be...

These pancakes are making me fat!

Not worth the effort at any of my lot today so I think i will go shopping for a new board. Budget about $950 and due in April. I think my wife might buy me one too!

Freshy softly softly

The old Freshy was lookin’ better yesterday morning when I checked it out around 0730. There were more people in the water for fewer waves this morning though. Dominant swell angle seems to be just missing it. But then again, since the swell, so called, is struggling hard to get into the waist high range on the bomb sets, maybe it’s not too strange.

Curly calling?

Use your imagination! That could be fun for a few seconds...

Out and about with the laptop this morning just to try something different… having a coffee at Curly and watching the ocean trying to do something. There are heaps of lines, and as of 0745, the wind wasn’t too much of a factor. Reasonable number of bods in the water up toward the middle of the beach and only a couple having a go at the south end. 

Quality? Hmmm. Looks good for patient beginners. Waves are so close together and weak that they’re struggling to make waist high on the biggest ones. Best you can say is that it’s uncrowded and the water’s warm. Oh well, them’s the breaks.

C C

Overcast, humid and warm on the Central Coast this Wednesday morning.  The swell is weak, ruffled and small at 1 – 2 feet from the east northeast.  There is a light to moderate east southeast breeze at the moment forecast to go northeast later.  Low tide 1030 and high tide around 1515.  Local barometer 1007 hpa, 96% humidity, 22 degrees C.  Have a good one.