Late arvo update

Hello Friends,

Climbed aloft to the crow’s nest for one last view of the beach on this winter solstice day. It got steadily gloomier this afternoon, so the light levels were getting pretty low for taking pictures. I dialled up the sensitivity to ISO 800 and decreased the shutter speed to a barely adequate 1/200 of a sec. Even so, I had to boost the exposure during editing to get anything; hence the very grainy result below.

Huey left the swell settings in place across the day, but tomorrow the Bureau tells us that we could see a little increase tomorrow from the E/NE. Plus the wind is set to be N-NW inshore during the morning. Tuesday looks quite promising: light N wind and a couple metres or so of ENE swell with generally sunny conditions…

Light fades on a few catchable ones in the corner.

There were a reasonable number of people in the water for a Sunday evening (often one of the least crowded times of day on a weekend), and the waves seemed to have enough push to get some moves happening. Personally I’d call the conditions about 4/10, but maybe if I’d been in the water, I’d have set the rating a little higher! Funny how that seems to work.

Speaking of work, you’ll notice that there’s now a search field at the bottom of the reports column. I went along to a Google seminar for webmasters last week and one of the things we learned is that folks often want to go to a search after they’ve read something. Anyway, thought I’d see if RealSurf visitors found it handy…

On another front, I’ve also put in a link at the top of the page to our free surf classifieds. If you have any surf related gear you want to offload for a bit of coin, why not list it where a lot of surfers will see it?

Sorta pearly kinda light this morning

You could jag a few if you were patient.

Stumbled through the wheelhouse door late this morning, as is my wont on a Sunday. Climbed aloft for a quick look at the unfolding day. Small crowd is hanging around at the southern end of the Dee Why longy stretch. A few are over at the point. Conditions are sorta lumpy and disorganised looking, but at 0930 there wasn’t too much wind about. Swell settings are essentially unchanged in Sydney since yesterday. Energy is coming from the east at a couple metres and about 8-9 seconds apart. Wind is a light northerly.

Not super crowded at the Dee Why end when I grabbed the snap. Seemed to be quite a wait for the sets though. A few dribbling through at the point too, but I reckon you’ll want to be keen to chase those.

There should be a few options on offer this morning. Once the N-NE wind builds up, they’ll contract to the semi protected north corners. Tide’s dropping and will hit low at 1216 in Sydney.

Not too many surf report tweets this morning, but there was one from a T-shirt artist in in Santa Monica who says: “Malibu 1-2 feet.” He tweets at twitter.com/aSURFmoment

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong Wind Warning.
Sunday until midnight: Wind: N/NE 15/20 knots, reaching 20/25 knots at times, possibly 25/30 knots offshore.Sea: 1.5 to 2.5 metres, rising to 3 metres offshore. Swell: E/NE 1.5 to 2.5 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.
Monday: Wind: N/NW 10/20 knots inshore, grading to N/NE 20/30 knots offshore.Sea: 1 to 2 metres inshore rising to 2 to 3 metres offshore. Swell: E/NE 2 to 3 metres.
Tuesday: Wind: NW 05/15 knots.

Byron Bay Today’s Weekend Windup