that was fun

Hey all,

Heading north for a few days, so here’s my first on the road report

Left Sydney late Sunday morning, destination Coffs Harbour where the plan is to catch up with our Coffs reporter Brian. As I write this, we’re just north of Kempsey.

At around 3 this afternoon, we’d got as far as Taree and having had enough of driving, decided to take the old bar turn off for a look at the ocean. It had rained on and off, and at times pretty heavily, but by the time the outskirts ol Old Bar came into view, the sky was clearing.

The ocean didn’t look too great. Small, slightly choppy and not showing much sign of surfability. Drove out to the point anyway. Nothing much doing. Tide was pretty high and it seemed to be pretty small. Hung around though, just glad to be out of the car for awhile.

Every now and then a little line would come along the rocks and it looked just big enough to make one think that maybe if we paddled out on mals, there’d be the occasional one. So, we timed the sets to get an idea of how long the waits might be. Seemed to be in the neighbourhood of 5 minutes or so. The biggest ones appeared to be in the waist high range, but you couldn’t tell for certain because there wasn’t anyone in the water.

After further heming and hawing, we decided to go for a paddle, see if we could maybe get one without snapping a fin off on the numerous rocks popping out of the water as waves rolled gently down the point.

Water was warm, at least as warm as Sydney, and the wind dropped away to just about nothing. Only two of us out as well, so we’d have a shot at any and all sets.

It turned out that the bigger set waves were at least waist high, maybe chest to shoulder on the take off. And they ran pretty quickly down the point too. We started getting rides of over a hundred metres. And some of them had a bit of push so that you could get up high and draw a long Crescent style line as you stood on the front third of the board. I think it would’ve been more of a struggle with something shorter.

In the end our half hour session turned into an hour and a half. And the entire time, on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, we were the only two in the water.

Amazing.

When we got out, I grabbed the camera and took a snap…

The right equipment for the moment. Note glassy conditions

Sunday and it isn’t flat

All happening at Dee Why around 0715

Hello Friends,

Huey’s got us used to a pretty high standard lately, so by comparison, this morning’s offering of 9 sec period 1.5 metre SE swell could seem a bit sub par. 30 or so bods were on it from before 0700 at Dee Why beach and I’d expect that pattern to be playing itself out at most spots in Sydney today.

Sets are in the chest high, maybe head high range. Seems to be a wait involved, however methinks you might see the odd overhead bomb at some spots because the MHL Sydney buoy is showing 12 second component in the mix.

Next tide is a low at 0951.

Here’s the Bureau’s call:

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Sunday until midnight: Wind: S/SE 10/15 knots. Sea: about 1 metre.Swell: E/SE about 1.5 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.
Monday: Wind: SW/SE 10/15 knots. Sea: about 1 metre.Swell: SE 1 to 1.5 metres
Tuesday: Wind: S/SE 10/20 knots.

Cronulla report by Aquasea Wetsuit Repairs

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WIND: NW at 15kph. WATER TEMP: 22 degrees.
FORECAST: A few showers mostly in the morning. The chance of a morning thunderstorm on the coastal fringe. Light west to southwest winds, tending moderate south to southeast in the afternoon.
MAX AIR TEMP TODAY: 18-20 degrees.
SWELL: ESE 1-2m at 8 seconds.
TIDES: HIGH: 16:05 LOW: 09:51
WINDSURFERS: Good conditions today for advanced only.
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