Inner Harbour pics from yesterday

Nigel Dawes of PIXELPIMP PHOTOGRAPHY sent us a few snaps from yesterday’s well-attended session at Neilsen Park…

Nigel writes:

With the recent bout of extreme weather conditions to hit the East Coast of Australia, hundreds of Sydney surfers congregated at Nielsen Park, near Rosebay, in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs to surf what’s referred to as “an inner-harbour novelty wave”. While Sydney’s beaches, outside the harbour, were closed due to treacherous conditions, hundreds of surfers turned out en mass to stake their claim in this rare event. The area is usually reserved for toddlers and mums. However, many surfers dared to ride waves through the cordoned off, shark-netted bathing area, at times, coming dangerously close to the barnacle encrusted pylons that hold the shark nets in place.

Swell was out of the east. It was 4 metres at sea and the period was around 11 seconds.

Shooting the pilings on the inside.

One stands up - inside the (usually netted) swimming enclosure.

Good size crowd waiting for the sets

Still messy but the northern corner may be a goer later

It’s still dirty, messy and easterly with a solid 4-6 ft NE swell (bigger at Manly) and ENE wind but there maybe some hope at the northern end of the super-keen in a few hours.  Good to see the big shiny thing in the sky back after a week of batterings. Enjoy.

Very ordinary, but sunny

Hello Friends,
A few pictures from earlier this morning. Basically it’s chaotic and junky along the northern beaches this morning. Swell and wind are both out of the east, so really not great prospects for surf.

I’ll take a more in depth look later today. Here’s the Bureau’s call

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Sunday until midnight: Wind: E/NE 15/20 knots, easing to 10/15 knots this afternoon and evening.Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres, abating to about 1 metre. Swell: E/NE about 4 metres, gradually decreasing to 2 to 3 metres. Waves breaking dangerously close inshore.
Monday: Wind: N/NE 10/15 knots, easing to 5/10 knots.Sea: about 1 metre.Swell: NE/SE about 2 metres.
Tuesday: Wind: W/NW 5/15 knots

I grabbed a few snaps around 0900…

0900: dunno what you can do with this lot.

Swell and tides claim another few metres of beachfront property.

Nup, no options here either...

Big, long closing out and windblown lines along Collaroy Narrabeen.

In Byron Bay Today’s Weekend Windup May 23rd 2009