Hello Friends,

You know the deal, I’m sure. Last day away, and there are little waves where you’ve been staying, but there’s a long drive ahead, so do you jump in the water, or do you move on, hoping to pick up something later in the day? The swell dropped a little overnight, but the wind is SW along the far north coast and the skies are blue, so although it’s smaller, it also looks pretty nice. Swell is too small to light up Lennox in any meaningful way. Tide isn’t helping the cause either. But you can see the little line is coming from the right direction and in a couple days the joint should be firing.

Lennox peeler unloads onto the rocks and not a soul out.

Around the corner at Boulder, the usual dozen or so were in the water and a steady stream of surfers were making the quick walk from the carpark to the headland for a look. I reckon the instant there are waves, the crowd in the water will ramp up. We joined the watchers for awhile, I grabbed a few snaps and we decided to leave them to it. Sets were into the chest high range, but the waits are pretty long. Again, it’s only going to get better over the next day or two.

At any given moment, they're always there at Boulder, checking it out...

practising on the little ones, waiting for Boulder to kick into gear...

Speaking of a day or two, the forecast models are not quite as hysterical as a few days ago about the prospects for big swell, the portents are still looking impressive. The WAM for Monday (see below) is showing a very substantial fetch pointing right at us. That should punch up the swell into the 3m plus range toward the middle of the week. And it’ll be bigger up the coast thanks to the extra fetch.

Hope to have more to post about later…

Come Monday...?