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Shark attack did not become a subject of particular public interest until the twentieth century. Several factors have contributed to the upswing in public awareness of shark attack...Late night guesses
Posted on May 14th, 2009 in Big Picture.Hi all you late night folk!
Looks like not much point getting up at the crack of weirdness tomorrow. MHL Sydney buoy is showing that the swell has gone dead south, dropped to a metre and the power setting has gone down to a gutless 8 sec. Worse, the Eden buoy looks much the same, so methinks tomorrow will dawn small, to flat…
Hope to be wrong!
Out and about (DYSH)
Posted on May 14th, 2009 in Surf Reports.
Testing a new lens (DYSH)
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Testing a new lens (DYSH)
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to learn.
TG’s Forecast
Posted on May 14th, 2009 in Surf Reports.Surf forecast issued Thursday 14 May 2009: Seven day outlook for Sydney:
Easing back at first then coming up late Saturday/early Sunday at dead South spots…Easing back, then coming up again around Wednesday.
Friday: around 1-2 metres South East but dropping.
Saturday: 1 metre or less…maybe starting to come up a bit later at places that like dead South swell.
Sunday: in the 1-2 metre range dead South.
Monday: ditto.
Tuesday: ditto but dropping back.
Wednesday: about 2 metres East South East.
Thursday: 3-4 metres East.
Weather from the Bureau:
Forecast for Friday
Fine. Mostly sunny. Freshening west to northwest winds.
Precis: Fine. Mostly sunny.
City: Min: 11 Max: 23 Parramatta: Min: 9 Max: 22
Terrey Hills: Min: 10 Max: 21 Penrith: Min: 9 Max: 22
Liverpool: Min: 8 Max: 22 Richmond: Min: 7 Max: 22
UV Alert: 10:50 am to 12:50 pm, UV Index predicted to reach 3 [Moderate]
Saturday Fine. Windy.
City: Min: 14 Max: 22
West: Min: 12 Max: 21
Sunday Fine.
City: Min: 10 Max: 21
West: Min: 6 Max: 21
Monday Fine.
City: Min: 13 Max: 22
West: Min: 8 Max: 21
Tuesday Showers.
City: Min: 13 Max: 19
West: Min: 11 Max: 19
Wednesday Showers.
City: Min: 15 Max: 19
West: Min: 11 Max: 19
Thursday Showers.
City: Min: 17 Max: 21
West: Min: 13 Max: 20
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong Wind Warning.
Thursday until midnight: Wind: W 18/23 knotsSea: 1.5 to 2.5 metres.Swell: S about 1.5 metres
Friday: Wind: W/NW 18/23 knots, reaching 25/30 knots offshore later.Sea: 1.5 to 2.5 metres, rising to 2.5 to 3 metres offshore later.Swell: S/SW 1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres.
Saturday: Wind: W/NW 20/30 knots turning W/SW in the afternoon.
Sunday: Wind: SW/SE 10/20 knots.
Few more pics from this morning
Posted on May 14th, 2009 in At large, Dee Why, South Narrabeen.Hello Friends,
For the last week or two I’ve been shooting many of the daily pics with a Sony a900 digital SLR. It’s one of the highest res digital SLRs you can get and the results have been pretty spectacular. I’ve only got a 70-200 zoom, so all the pictures are heavily cropped. Then they get a belting when I save them as medium res jpegs, and still they look good. (Any photogs interested in the nuts and bolts should check out my mag co-editor Margaret Brown’s in depth review of the 24 megapixel heavyweight.)
Very few opening up like this one at mid-morning DY beach.
Much smaller than yesterday and dropping, but who wouldn't have fun with this one?
Another second of beauty before it all fell apart at far north Collaroy this morning on the incoming tide.
In the land of close outs, you pull under for a second and enjoy
The only wavetool that worked at high tide Dee Why point.
Getting high in style at Dee Why on the incoming tide.
Ski rider marks up a high tide peak at Dee Why.
No mans landers scramble for unexpected set.
Dee Why: Clean and still breaking, but only a shadow of last night
Posted on May 14th, 2009 in Surf Reports.Still got waves this morning at Dee Why. Point throws one out every now and again but mostly it’s pretty quiet.
Up the beach it’s a bit bigger and the bank is still holding but nothing compared to last night. I paddled out about 4pm and it was just ballistic. Big, powerful, Hawaii style waves with loads of power, but it was clean and most of them peeling halfway up the beach. A fair crowd but mostly it was only people like me who had meaty bigwave guns that were able to catch them predictably. Shortboard riders were doing a lot of swearing and most of the mal riders stayed on the beach. Unfortunately, by the time I got home it was too dark to get any photos.
For the last 30 min or so before dark there were some absolutely massive sets breaking across from First Rock at the Point with guys getting rides from First Rock to well past the Clubhouse. Some of the sets looked from the beach to be well bigger than 3X overhead and some of the sets that rolled past when I was sitting on the new so-called “Dee Why Superbank” had backs on them bigger than 2X o/h. And most amazingly, most of them weren’t closing out. It was one of those “almost as good as it gets” Dee Why days.
Today, it’s a bit different:
Every now and again there’s one at the Point.
“Dee Why Superbank” not as super as last night.
Mostly, the Point is looking like this:
Palmy
Posted on May 14th, 2009 in Palm Beach (NSW).There are some good fun waves around palmy this morning, it’s dropped off a fair bit, but now the banks can hold the size. Worth getting amongst it if you get the chance!
Avalon to Narrabeen Rpt
Posted on May 14th, 2009 in Surf Reports.Big drop in
size & power since yesterday. We’re now looking at clean,
offshore conditions pulled back to about shoulder-high
Excellent! More waves.
Posted on May 14th, 2009 in Big Picture, Dee Why.
Longer waits, a bit smaller, but gotta love a point wave.
Busy, but Huey's keeping the juice up to the crowd from the look of things this morning.
Hello Friends,
Another beautiful wave-filled morning in Sydney. How good is this time of year? Swell has faded a bit overnight, but it’s nothing like flat. Wave faces at Dee Why beach (where 30 or so were on it) looked to be in the 2 metre range (what I’d call shoulder to head high plus). The point was a touch smaller and less consistent, but definitely rideable.
Swell is out of the SE at an average of 1.5m with the power setting on 10 seconds.
Wind is out of the NW and not too strong. Next tide is a high at 1143.
Outlook is for a gradual decline through the day as we head toward a small Friday-Saturday. The models are still showing a fresh batch of solid south swell arriving around Sunday morning. Looks like we’ll have pretty good conditions at south facing spots from Sunday midday to dusk, but from Monday the models are calling for the dominant wind direction to be out of the s to ese (blergh).
Here’s the Bureau’s call for the next few days:
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Thursday until midnight: Wind: W 10/15 knots increasing to 20/25 knotsSea: 1 to 1.5 metres rising to 2 to 2.5 metres.Swell: S/SE 1.5 to 2 metres
Friday: Wind: W/NW 18/23 knots, reaching 25/30 knots offshore later.Sea: 1.5 to 2.5 metres, rising to 2.5 to 3 metres offshore later.Swell: S/SW 1.5 to 2 metres, decreasing to 1 to 1.5 metres.
Saturday: Wind: W/NW 20/30 knots turning W/SW in the afternoon.
Oceaneye – Bungan off the richter!
Posted on May 14th, 2009 in At large.
Bungan off the richter!
Photo: Bungan Beach off the richter! Yesterday.
Still plenty of fantastic waves today. Size around if you look for it. 3-4 and clean. Yesterday was just maddness though! Hope you all experienced a bit of it. Even if it was only from the beach! Check out our Bungan archive gallery at www.oceaneye.com.au
C C
Posted on May 14th, 2009 in Central Coast, Surf Reports.Fine, dry and mild on the Central Coast this
Thursday morning. The swell is smooth and consistent at 2 – 3 feet + from the east southeast. There is a light west northwest breeze forecast to strengthen later. Low tide 0550 and high tide around 1145. Local barometer 1008hpa, 66% humidity, 12 degrees C. Have a good one.