Banff postcard

Reporter PB sent a bunch of snaps from his inland adventures in Canada, including this snap from lovely Banff. How’s the weather??

Banff in the Canadian Rockies

A slight delay…

Slower movement of Hurricane Bill has delayed peak arrival of a 9 foot swell until Saturday afternoon. Expect a 3 foot SE swell with SW winds under 10 mph when you awake Friday with period sets from 9 – 15 seconds by the evening. Could be interesting with a rising tide starting around 3 pm. It will depend a lot on the winds.

Roberto

Getting sick of this!

Well its basically flat again and things still look bad going forward. The only positive thing to say is that at least its not raining.  I watched 2 people having a crack this morning – one peak each! They caught a few but nothing of note with no real power or size but they were keen. Anyway I am going to play golf this arvo as it seems to be the only type of outdoor activity I shall conduct before the usual WB beers later on. Fingers crossed Huey starts throwing us a bone sometime time soon.

Barton Lynch at Surfrider Northern Beaches

Photo: Surfing Australia

Former world surfing champion Barton Lynch will be coming along to the Surfrider Foundation Northern Beaches public meeting on Wednesday 2 September. This meeting is open to anyone who’s interested in coming along to hear from Barton and learn a little about Surfrider Foundation.

Barton will give a brief talk about his career and his recent to visit to Costa Rica with the Australian surfing team as well as the role he sees for Surfrider Foundation in the surfing community.
Barton has had a long association with Surfrider Foundation
and it will be great to have him along to meet the Surfrider NB crew. We will be heading off to The Sands Hotel for a post meeting drink or two afterwards.

Event: Surfrider Foundation Northern Beaches Chapter meeting
Time/Date: 7.45 pm on Wed 2 September
Venue: North narrabeen Surf Club (Upstairs)
Check out Barton’s sites: bartonlynch.com, thesurfersgroup.com

People in the water surfing

Hello Friends,

A little group of people on very buoyant equipment actually standing for a moment or two as a little line carried them shoreward at Dee Why. Not bad considering that the average swell height at sea is less than a metre. It’s mainly coming from the east at a windswelly 7 seconds apart. However, the MHL Sydney buoy is also showing some 11 second component. That’s likely to be the reason people are catching anything at all.

I’m with the Goat on the outlook for surf over the next week in our part of the world. It’s dire.

Oh well, we’re getting into the season to catch up on things I guess.

Have yourself a top old day!

...but it was all over two seconds later...

Synoptic Situation
A high pressure system over the Tasman Sea drifting slowly east, maintaining generally weak winds along the coast. The next frontal system is expected to reach the coast on Friday with strong winds expected along the coast ahead and behind this system. A high pressure system will dominate through the Tasman from later on Saturday until a low pressure system comes through later on Monday.
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong wind warning.
Friday until midnight: Wind: N/NW 15/20 knots increasing to 20/30 knots in the afternoon ahead of a W/SW change of similar strength overnight. Sea: rising 2 to 3 metres. Swell: E about 1 metre.
Saturday: Wind: W/SW 20/30 knots easing to 15/20 knots early and tending W/NW 10/15 knots in the afternoon.Sea: 2 to 3 metres abating about 1 metre in the afternoon. Swell: NE 1 to 1.5 metres tending S/SE.
Sunday: Wind: NW/NE 10/20 knots.

C C Flat

Fine, dry and mild on the Central Coast this Friday morning.  The swell is  flat and fat at 0 – 1 foot  from the east.  There is a light northwest breeze forecast to go west southwest later.  High tide 0845 and low tide around 1445.  Local barometer 1003 hpa, 8 degrees C. 95% humidity.   Have a good weekend.

Byron Bay today Aug 20th 09

Many whale a leaping in byron bay today.

It was whale watching heaven, In Byron Bay Today. There were several pods moving back down south after doing their Whaley business up the coast. Now they must have had a pretty good time up there, because they were just going off in Byron bay today. The Majority of them were too far out of range to really shoot, but we got lucky. Just when we got up to the cape after lunch a small pod came in right under the lighthouse and had a little whale party for a while before heading back out to sea. It was just one of those moments, but judging by the way they’ve been behaving I’d have to say you really want to get up the cape for a look over the next few days As for today’s surf, well it had moments too around the ocean side, but it was basically the breaching Humpbacks that held everyone’s attention, In Byron Bay Today.