Dusk drive-about

Hello Friends

Decided to do a quick survey of a few nearby beaches before it got dark. First stop was Mactier street to see if anything was showing along the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch. Twas very small along the Gardens to Collaroy zone. Only saw one person in the water, and they didn’t manage to latch on to any of the waist high sets coming in. Although I didn’t keep going north, I grabbed a shot looking up toward Northy. From the backs evident in the shot, I’m guessing there were some pretty okay size sets coming into the teeth of the stiff and cold offshore winds.

At dusk, interesting looking backs...

Hooked down to Curly to get another fix on the swell energy levels. Just glanced at Longy and Dee Why on the way past, and it was plain that the swell had jumped quite a bit since lunchtime. Around at Curly there were a fair number of bods in the water both at the south and north ends. Damn chilly standing there taking pictures, so I can only imagine how toasty they would’ve been in the water! Sets were pushing into the head high range and it seemed to be quite consistent.

Pretty busy in the water in the waning evening light.

The forecast for tomorrow morning hasn’t shifted much. It’ll be windier early, maybe slackening off a little in the middle of the day and then coming up again in the afternoon. The models reckon we should be seeing some 3-4 metre 10sec south swell across the next couple days. It’ll be pretty sharpish tomorrow for the early – the Bureau is currently calling for a low of 6 degrees (it’s supposed to warm up to 16 later).

First tide of the day will be a low at 442am. The high will be 1.2 metres at 1034.

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Gale warning.
Wednesday until midnight: Wind: SW 25/35 knots, 30/40 knots offshore.Sea: 2.5 to 4 metres. Swell: S/SE around 2 metres.
Thursday: Wind: S/SW 20/30 knots, reaching 35 knots offshore early and again late. Sea: 2.5 to 3.5 metres.Swell: S 2 to 3 metres.
Friday: Wind: SW 10/20 knots, 25 knots offshore early, easing during the day and tending NW late.
Saturday: Wind: NW winds 10/20 knots.

Gee, I’m kinda thirsty after all that running around and typing and stuff… wouldn’t mind a coffee… or maybe a Coopers…

hmmm, what have we here…?

1615… Dee Why starting to light up with the forerunners…

Looks like we could have a few waves...

Midday update: still tiny

Cold wind whistling across tiny sets at midday.

Hello Friends,

Had to run an errand around lunchtime, so I stopped by Long Reef to see if I could detect any sign of the expected swell. There were a few bods in the water, but the wind was icy and strong, and worse, the waves were about as small as it’s possible to surf. It’s a metre out at sea from the south and the period’s decreased to a touch under 6 seconds.

The only hopeful sign has been an increase in the period from 6 to nearly 8 seconds at the Eden buoy even as the swell down there has gradually risen from around a metre yesterday to a couple metres now.

On the current set of readings I think it’s safe to say that we won’t be getting much of anything before nightfall in the Sydney region. There might possibly be the odd forerunner set, but I think I’ll be keeping the powder dry for tomorrow morning. That said, I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on proceedings and will update if I spot anything of interest. Maybe Hendo’s call will be better than mine on this one!

Looks as though we’ll have pretty windy conditions to kick off with tomorrow, but with luck as the day goes along, it’ll throttle back to something a bit more reasonable.

Here’s the Bureau’s call:

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Gale warning.
Wednesday until midnight: Wind: W 25/35 knots, reaching 35/40 knots offshore. Turning SW during the morning. Close inshore winds W 20/25 knots early morning.Sea: 2.5 to 4 metres. Swell: SE about 1 metre, increasing to S 3 to 4 metres tonight.
Thursday: Wind: S/SW 25/35 knots, easing to 20/30 knots later. Sea: 2.5 to 3.5 metres.Swell: S 3 to 4 metres.
Friday: Wind: SW 10/20 knots turning W’ly 5/15 knots

The oily rag we run this site on is pretty dry this week, so I’m going to experiment with a sort of tip-jar concept. Below you should see a little form that allows you to buy us a symbolic cup of coffee. It offers the security of paypal and I’ve set the amount options into what I hope is the affordable range. Been a long time since we’ve done any fundraising, so I wonder if any of you good folk will feel inclined to participate. Naturally I’m interested in any thoughts you may have re this sort of thing.

Mooooona

It’s pretty much like a lake out there this morning, although we should see some swell this arrrrvo if the swell charts are anything to go by, fingers crossed!

Flat now but it should be cranking by dusk

Whale off Curly headland this morning.  Flat as a lake now with high tide approaching.  Sun is out, wind is strong offshore and the forecast is for a rising swell by sunrise out of the south at 10 seconds to 3-5 feet with offshore continuing for the next three days.  Swell is expected to peak around the 10ft level tomorrow so it should be well and truly going off at the south exposed spots.  Enjoy.

Chillin’ in Sydney

Long, long wait for bombs like this one at Dee Why beach.

Cool enough for you? At least we have sunny skies to kick off things this morning in Sydney. Wind is out of the WNW to WSW at 15-20 kts but swell at sea is from the south at about 7 seconds apart and only a metre or so on average. Yesterday morning’s 12 sec peak component, is now down to 9 seconds. Sets at Dee Why beach are therefore separated by long periods of utter flatness, and when they do arrive, you’ll be doing well to get something waist high for a few seconds before it folds onto the sand.

Posting as I go, so more in a sec.

Avalon to Narrabeen Report

C C – Micro

Fine, dry and cold on the Central Coast this Wednesday morning.  The swell is smooth and very small at 1 – 1.1 feet from the east.  There is light west northwest breeze forecast to strengthen from the west southwest later.  High tide 0955 and low tide around 1515. Local barometer 1005 hpa, 7 degrees C. 76% humidity.   Have a good one.  Footnote: Ramsay – dick, Ponting – dick, A. Symonds – bloody champion!

Byron Bay Today June 9th 2009