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Weekend warriors weren’t put off by the somewhat junky conditions mid-morning at No Mans and Long Reef on Sunday 29 August. Sets were into the shoulder high range and there were...
Saturday morning saw a couple metres of south swell with a period of about 10 seconds lighting up beaches around Sydney. South Narrabeen was looking tasty early with offshore conditions...
What a great weekend! So what if Huey didn’t deliver as expected – the sun shone, the wind blew offshore and there were waves! I burnt a bit of petrol cruising round...TG’s Surf Forecast
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in Surf Reports.Surf Forecast issued Thursday 2 April 2009: Seven day outlook for Sydney:
Waves and more waves… variable quality ‘though, with some fresh wind thrown in… and some ordinary quality water after all the rain…
Friday: 2-3 metres East.
Saturday: around 2 metres + from the East, then after an early Southerly change, more South East.
Sunday: around 2 metres East South East/ East.
Monday: 1-2 metres South East/ East.
Tuesday: about 2 metres at places that like dead South swell.
Wednesday: 1-2 metres dead South.
Thursday: ditto.
TG’s Baitfish Boats on the Harbour Index: (with last week’s numbers in brackets for comparison)
Monday: 8 (prev. Monday: 21)
Tuesday: 5 (prev. Tuesday: 22)
Wednesday: 1 (bad weather?) (prev Wednesday: 19)
Thursday: ZERO! (prev. Thursday: 20)
…………………(Friday last week: 14)
Water temp is still around 21… But here’s the interesting thing…. Around the 27th – Friday of last week – the inshore current changed from its previous North to South flow… to South to North… Looks like the fish are off!… and hopefully so too are our Toothy Friends, at least for the time being.
Weather from the Bureau:
Forecast for Friday
The chance of a shower or two mostly in the morning. Partly cloudy. Light to moderate north to northeast winds freshening near the coast.
Precis: Shower or two.
City: Min: 20 Max: 25West: Min: 18 Max: 25 Saturday A few showers. S’ly change.
City: Min: 19 Max: 23West: Min: 17 Max: 25 Sunday Becoming fine.
City: Min: 17 Max: 23West: Min: 17 Max: 27 Monday Mostly fine.
City: Min: 16 Max: 23West: Min: 13 Max: 25 Tuesday Shower or two.
City: Min: 17 Max: 21West: Min: 14 Max: 22 Wednesday Fine.
City: Min: 16 Max: 21West: Min: 12 Max: 23 Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Thursday until midnight: Wind: E/NE 13/18 knots, easing to 8/13 knots.Sea: 1 to 2 metres. Swell: E 2.5 to 3 metres, decreasing to about 2 metres tonight.
Friday: Wind: N/NE 10/15 knots, increasing to 15/20 knots during the afternoon.Sea: 1 to 2 metres. Swell: E about 2 metres. Isolated late thunderstorms.
Saturday: Wind: S'ly change 20/30 knots during the morning.
Sunday: Wind: S/SE 10/20 knots, easing and turning N/NE.
BSR 2009 04 02
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in Surf Reports.
BSR pic of the day
Bali Surf Report
Date = Thu, 02 Apr 2009
Time = 09:30 AM
Location = Padma – Legian
Size = 2-3 ft
Surfers = 20
Tide = low tide
Wind = offshore wind
Weather = sunny
Water = calm and glassy
Wave = not so bad, small and not really consistent wave
Legian: High tide at Legian can serve up some of the most power-packed beachbreaks in the world. Always bigger than Kuta, although it usually closes-out on low tide. It also closes out on high tide if the swell is over 8 feet. Because Legian is in the curve of the beach, it collects the compressed energy of all swells. If Kuta is only 3 foot, sometimes Legian can be mignificent at 4 – 6 foot. A handy hint is that Kuta Reef is often about the same size at Legian. A hot crew of young Bali locals surf here regularly, so smile, share and be friendly to enjoy your sessions here.
More pics
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in At large, Fairy Bower, Long Reef.You know how it is with swell and not great conditions – you keep wondering if maybe it’s improved someplace… the pressure got to RealSurf and so late this morning made a run down to see if the Bower was cleaning up and if by some fluke there was something getting in on the north side of Long Reef. I should know better… but still, had to look.
About a dozen in the water chasing sections in 1.5x overhead sets at the Bower, but the swell was mostly going wide and the rideable bits weren’t too long. Grabbed a couple snaps that make it look better than it probably was…
Long Reef was relatively clean inside, but the quality was strictly so-so…
Ready to duckdive boys?
He was briefly airborne, got a turn and then it faded out.
Long Reef was rideable on the inside.
Just big and stupid still at whiterock
Bower having a moment of clarity.
More stormy stuff
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in At large, Collaroy.Hi all,
Was out and about an hour or so ago and got some pictures for you of the less than lovely conditions in the Dee Why to Gardens region. Didn’t see anyone in the water, and for good reason: it was just junky, messy, sloppy and either too big or too small.
Kick is floppy and sectiony and awful looking.
Unlovely looking whiterock
Juicy looking sections, but could you get to them in the first place?
Swell angle is going right by the northern end of Longy-Dee Why stretch.
Lot of junk mixed with weed all over Collaroy beach this morning.
Still big and messy but cleaning up
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in Curl Curl, Surf Reports.6-8 foot plus, cross shore and still messy with filthy water and little chance of a clean wave at Curly or even Manly until maybe later tonight or possibly tomorrow if the size continues to drop as it’s forecast to do. Winds should be offshore tomorrow. Enjoy.
CC happening
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in Central Coast.Cloudy and dry at the moment on the Central Coast this Thursday morning.
The swell is solid, dangerous and still lots of water movement at 3 – 6 feet
from the northeast. There is no breeze at the moment but the northeaster
will pop up soon and strengthen. Low tide 0900 and high tide around 1500.
Local barometer 1019hpa, 98% humidity, 20 degrees C. Have a good one.
Still messy, but smaller
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in Dee Why.About to head out for a look at a few more spots this morning, but if Dee Why’s any guide, I’m not expecting anything special. Extremely messy looking there, plus the wind is around 10-15 kts from the ESE – yuck.
Next tide is a low at around 0900, with the high at 1456.
Here’s the latest from the Bureau:
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Thursday until midnight: Wind: E/NE 18/23 knots, easing to 13/18 metres during the day.Sea: 1 to 2 metres. Swell: E 2 to 3 metres decreasing to about 2 metres.
Friday: Wind: N/NE 15/20 knots.Sea: 1 to 2 metres. Swell: E about 2 metres.
Saturday: Wind: S’ly change 20/30 knots late morning.
Dee Why looking distinctly ordinary but big.
CC
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in Central Coast, Surf Reports.
Cloudy and dry at the moment on the Central Coast this Thursday morning. The swell is solid, dangerous and still lots of water movement at 3 – 6 feet from the northeast. There is no breeze at the moment but the northeaster will pop up soon and strenghten. Low tide 0900 and high tide around 1500. Local barometer 1019hpa, 98% humidity, 20 degrees C. Have a good one.
Byron Bay April Fools day 09
Posted on April 2nd, 2009 in Byron, Comment, Cool Picks, Editor's picks, Just for fun, Local Colour, Surf Reports, Surf culture.
- Flying Fishies in Byron Bay today
It was a sun kissed wave feast In Byron Bay Today. Ok I’ll admit it, that’s a radical exaggeration. There was plenty of swell, sun and clear warm water, which kept most folks happy. The massive swell that everyone was expecting didn’t really stretch this far, nor did the storm that was predicted. Although as I sit here in the wee hours writing this I gotta say, it’s blowing a gale outside right now, and I can hear the swell jacking right now. So who knows what tomorrow may bring. We did see a surge in wave heights in the morning. But by lunchtime it was dropping steadily. The only spot that anyone seemed interested in, was actually not that good. The banks are a bit wierd right now, got heaps of holes etc. Can’t say I understand it. Right now, Greenmount’s got cracking banks and is heaps less crowded than Byron. Which begs the question, why is the carpark full of blokes from the Gold Coast? Sure I love it here which is why I live here. But I wouldn’t do a 100 km round trip to surf a wave that’s more crowded and inferior to the waves on my doorstep. I mean that’s just silly. I dunno maybe I’m missing something, I understand it when we have banks and they don’t, but when it’s reversed it makes no sense to me. Be that as it may, for those that looked, there were plenty of uncrowded waves to be had elsewhere other than the Pass In Byron Bay Today.