I love being wrong!

Hello Friends,

I think that is just about the quickest turnaround I’ve seen in many a long year. Utterly and completely flat at 1100 this morning when mate Barry and I were walking out along the rocks at the point. We were within two metres of the water and in no danger of a rogue splash. I just watched a set with a good solid 6 to 8 foot of face (trough to crest, not back) wall into Dee Why beach and hone left for a hundred metres. Four hours ago you couldn’t have caught anything even with a SUP at that same spot.

The MHL buoy tells the tale. Swell ramped from less than a metre at 6 seconds to nearly 2 m at 11 seconds. At the same time it swung a little east so that it should be lighting up lots of spots – not just DY.

Might go for a closer look to see what else is going nutty just at the moment.

1445: this was unsurfable micro 3 hrs ago!

BSR 2009 04 27

BSR pic of the day

Bali Surf Report
Date = Mon, 27 Apr 2009
Time = 9 AM
Location = Padma – Legian
Size = 2-3 ft
Surfers = 15 surfers and come in right-left Padma
Tide = high tide
Wind = cross shore wind
Weather = bright sky
Water = fine and still swim able
Wave = more swells and not so bad

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.

Extra tinyness with that tinyness?

Hello Friends,

Running behind with my contribution this morning. Wish it was because I’d been surfing. Sadly, we have a classic little (we hope!) winter-style flat spell. We have west to WNW winds and a very small, just about straight south swell. That combo will be delivering next to nothing at most places. You might spot a very tiny peak at a stretch of beach with straight south exposure. But I wouldn’t be counting on finding anything.

There’s quite an intense low deep in the Tasman at the moment, but from the look of the charts, it may not end up slinging much our way because the dominant fetch won’t get pointed in our general direction for long. When I say “much” I mean big swell of the sort we had last week. It should definitely be fun size and surfable from the middle part of the day tomorrow. How big? Hmmm… waist to chest with the odd shoulder high set at places facing south?

So, what has the Bureau to say?

Good day for a walk along the beach.

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Monday until midnight: Wind: W/NW 20/25 knots at first, easing to 18/23 knots by the afternoon.Sea: about 2 metres abating to 1 to 2 metres. Swell: S/SW about 1 metre increasing to 2 metres during the day.
Tuesday: Wind: W/SW 20/30 knots.Sea: 2 to 3 metres. Swell: S about 2 metres.
Wednesday: Wind: SW/NW 10/15 knots.

Go well!

Flat Rpt

It’s flat, ok?

The way it was in Byron Bay 26th April 2009

Wave(-let) of the day sweeps in around 1500 at N. Narrabeen.

Hello Friends,

Found myself up at Warriewood with a camera, so I dropped by the Narrabeen to Collaroy stretch. There was a tiny little peak just off the beach near the alley, then another couple south from carparks. To describe the activity on those peaks as surfing would be a somewhat generous expansion of the usual meaning. Looked like the best shot was to prone them in.

From the look of the charts, it could be 48 hours or so before the swell comes back. It looks like small to medium south swell once it does. General outlook right now seems to be for Sydney to have nearly flat conditions through Tuesday arvo and then to get two or three days of generally south swell.

Here’s the Bureau’s call:

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Gale Warning.
Sunday until midnight: Wind: NW 25/33 knots, increasing to 30/40 knots during the morning, particularly offshore and tending W/NW. Sea: 2 to 3 metres, rising to 3 to 4 metres offshore. Swell: E/SE 1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing.
Monday: Wind: W 20/30 knots, easing to 15/20 knots later.Sea: 2 to 3 metres abating to 1 to 2 metres. Swell: tending S/SW 2 to 3 metres
Tuesday: Wind: W/SW 15/25 knots.

Cronulla report by Aquasea Wetsuit Repairs

Calm sea, 1-2foot max with a strong NW blowing, sunny and cool, nice for a dip/walk BBQ picnic. Swell to pickup later this week. Lest we forget.
WIND: WNW at 44kph. WATER TEMP: 21 degrees.
FORECAST: Strong and gusty west to northwest winds, easing tonight. Fine and mostly sunny. Precis: Windy. Mostly sunny
MAX AIR TEMP TODAY: 21-24 degrees.
SWELL: SE 1-2m at 6 seconds.
TIDES: HIGH: 08:54 LOW: 14:37
WINDSURFERS: Good conditions today for advanced only.
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Narraben Rpt

Um,….what happened?

Oceaneye – Today is micro compared to this photo of North Avalon

Massive North Avalon 25th

Photo: North Avalon all time!
How amazing was yesterday! Today is massively dissapointing. Hard to believe it’s the same ocean! Pretty small and fat in most places I’ve seen and read about. Oceaneye.com.au has new photo archives for yesterday. Manly, Avalon and Palm Beach will be added later. South palm was so perfect. Never seen it work like that before. Enjoy the day reminiscing in what has been.

Whoah, Huey, where’d it go?

You can almost see the stunned expressions of the surfers staring at the flatness.

I was just about to hit the keyboard this morning, when the phone rang. It was RealSurf’s man in Coffs, Brian. “What’d you do to the swell??”, he asked. “Arrawarra’s flat as a tack. Yesterday it was pumping.” Having just looked at the Dee Why stretch, it was my doleful duty to report that Huey’s snapped the power switch to off overnight for us too.

I grabbed a couple low tide waves late yesterday afternoon at No Man’s that were solidly head high. What’s more, there were much bigger sets arriving regularly. According to the MHL data, the average size was around 1.5 metres, but the average period was close to a power packed 12 seconds from the east.

The moment the sun set, Huey started to wind it all down. The average size is around a metre but the period is now a gutless 7 seconds. Surprised everyone Huey, onya!

So, we have a mild temp, offshore breeze – and just about no waves. I had to wait quite awhile to get a snap from the crows nest of a person wobbling slowly along on a tiny lump at Dee Why. It faded away after a few seconds too.

But despair not, thanks to an intense low now over Tasmania, we could well see a strong south pulse start to fill in from around midday on Monday. It then looks as though it’ll keep pushing along through much of the coming week.

Go well with your day!