Hello Friends,
Hope you got in this afternoon. Shoulda been good lots of places. Your loyal correspondent blew off work for a couple hours to join roughly half the population of Dee Why on an astoundingly good low tide peak (and the point was kinda fun too). I’m giving the best sets 9/10 – hard to imagine how 8 foot of lightly offshore peeling wall that runs for 150 metres plus could really be improved on.
Quite an impressive pulse, and from the look of the other buoy data along the coast of NSW, Sydney got it first and strongest. It arrived so quickly that I am cautious about my hopes for tomorrow. Often if it ramps this quickly, it drops just as fast as soon as it peaks. It’ll be interesting to see what the next run of the MHL data shows…
I hope to be happily surprised if it is still as big tomorrow morning. The models suggest that the swell should swing more south and be in the two metre range at sea. Wind should be stronger than this afternoon, but at least it’ll be out of the W-SW.
Here’s the latest call from the Bureau:
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong Wind Warning.
Monday until midnight: Wind: W/NW 18/23 knots.Sea: 1 to 2 metres. Swell: S/SW 1 to 2 metres.
Tuesday: Wind: W/SW 25/33 knots.Sea: 2 to 3 metres. Swell: S about 2 metres.
Wednesday: Wind: SW/NW 10/15 knots.
Thursday: Wind: S/SE 10/15 knots.
Anyway, herewith a few snaps taken in the last minutes of light after I got out of the water.
