Gallery: Carolines meet the women.

Posted on February 14th, 2009 in Cool Picks, Editor's picks.

Blundering around the net in my ceaseless search for interesting stuff to share with those of you kind enough to add RealSurf to your visited sites, I came across a beautifully photographed gallery of waves from the Caroline Islands. As you’ll see when you follow the link below, these are pics are on American surf site Surfline, but some of them may be familiar because the story the come from ran in local surf mag ASL.

I vaguely recall seeing this one in the mag, but of course it only had a fraction of the images shown here. The standard of the photography is as high as the surfing. Makes you want to shell out the $400 bucks a day it costs for a trip to the surf resort near the break known as P-Pass in Pohnepei.

A real girls’ own adventure yarn by Jessi Miley-Dyer accompanies the pin-sharp snaps from the clearly talented Swilly.

Flash gallery of the pics
Link to the story

Bumpf about the Carolines surf camp

Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia) on wikipedia

oooh, controversy too!

Late arvo update: pretty ordinary again

Posted on February 14th, 2009 in Collaroy, Dee Why.

Hello Friends,

Got out and about between about 1600-1700 to see if I could grab a few snaps for the Saturday evening visitors. Conditions, as you can see, are still pretty ghastly. But that hasn’t put folks off. About the most intense looking wave I saw was the one above. It was grinding into a shallow bank up the beach from Collaroy SLSC. About four bodyboarders on it too.

Collaroy proper was not looking too fabo. The 15-20 kts of SE wind was chewing it up pretty badly and though the windswell is now just about east and a couple metres at sea, the period has slipped below the 8 second mark, so utter gutlessness is pretty much the story.

Around the corner at Long Reef there was really nothing worth taking a snap of. Surprisingly small (guess it’s the east direction) and windblown junk making for an unsummery scene sadly.

Dee Why was only slightly better. You could at least surf there and a few bods were having a crack at the point as a small flotilla of traditional surf rescue raced out and back from the beach. The intermittent showers and wind have churned the ocean into a soupy mess. Blergh.

Here’s the latest marine forecast for Sydney from the Bureau:

Saturday until midnight: Wind: E/SE 15/20 knots reaching 20/25 knots at times. Sea: 1.5 to 2.5 metres. Swell: E/SE 2 to 2.5 metres.
Sunday: Wind: E/SE 15/25 knots increasing to 20/30 knots later.Sea: 1.5 to 2.5 metres rising to 2 to 3 metres later. Swell: E/NE 2 to 2.5 metres.
Monday: Wind: SE 25/33 knots.
Tuesday: Wind: E/SE 25/33 knots.
Oh, and there’ll be rain periods through the next three days…

Am I full of it? Was it in fact really fun? Why not use the comments field below to tell your valentine’s day surf story…

Just awful.

Posted on February 14th, 2009 in Bondi, Bronte, Tama.

It’s as windy as a baked bean eating competition, as choppy as a karate studio and there are more white caps than a lawn bowls tournament. Stay home.

C C Wet n Windy

Posted on February 14th, 2009 in Central Coast, Surf Reports.

Yes folks St Valentines Day, not the day for love but Matt’s Realsurf reporting anniversary.  He started this day in 1997, reporting for this great site.  Showers and windy on the Central Coast this Saturday morning.  The swell is bumpy and messed out trash at 3 – 6 feet from the southeast.  There are strong east southeast gusts at 20 knots +.  Low tide 0630 and high tide around 1230.  Local barometer 1018 hpa, 79% humidity, 19 degrees C.  Have a good weekend.

All roads lead to Noosa

Posted on February 14th, 2009 in Sunshine Coast.

rainy,windy and a big swell means everybody will be heading for either noosa or Mooloolaba.Open beaches are a mess.Winds are predicted to reach 40 knots and swing around to the Ne later in day.

Pull the doona up

Posted on February 14th, 2009 in Big Picture, Collaroy, Dee Why.

Hello Friends,

I’d stay in bed if you’re up early!

20 knots of ESE wind making a complete hash of the ocean for us this morning in Sydney. I very much doubt that there is anywhere out of the wind that also has waves.

Swell at sea is around the 2.5 metre mark. It’s coming from the ESE at about 8 seconds apart. Were it not for the wind, that would be a reasonable set of numbers for lots of places along our fair city’s shores.

The Bureau’s latest marine forecast is not encouraging in the slightest:

Wind: E/SE 15/20 knots reaching 20/25 knots at times. Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres. Swell: SE 1. 5 to 2 metres increasing to E 2 to 2.5 metres.
Sunday: Wind: E/SE 20/30 knots.Sea: 2 to 3 metres. Swell: E/NE 2 to 3 metres.
Monday: Wind: SE 25/35 knots.

Gee, isn’t that nice? Strong SE today, getting stronger tomorrow, and stronger again on Monday.

The models are currently showing the SE’ly windswell pushing up from the present size to upwards of 4 metres by Monday arvo. It’s then likely to gradually decrease as the winds back off very slightly through Tuesday. If the computers have it right, we could see the wind swing back to the south for Wednesday as it heads toward the SW for Thursday.

We’ll be watching Huey’s every move in the meantime, so stay in touch, oh, and go well with your day!

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