Kurungabaa calls for your creative work

Posted on August 24th, 2009 in Surf culture, Top stories.

The good folk at Kurungabaa are calling for submissions for their next issue. Here’s the blurb from their fine website…

Longing for waves, lover, place, smell, healing, gods, goddesses, water … The December issue of Kurungabaa is on “Longing”. We are looking for submissions – poetry, art, photographs, writing, dreams, frustrations. Submission guidelines are here. Please send submissions (on longing or any other work) to

Rebecca Olive <rebeccajaneolive@gmail.com>

Clifton Evers <clifton.evers@unsw.edu.au>

by October 30, 2009.

Here’s a link to the original page:

Call for submissions on “Longing” « Kurungabaa: a journal of literature, history and ideas for surfers.

south-west vancouver island

Posted on August 24th, 2009 in Surf Reports.

on sunday at 2 pm: 1 – 3 foot waves at the lost village beach, sweeping gracefully around the three emerged boulders at the area known as Firsts – i caught five easy but rather ragged waves, in slow-moving, glassy and pleasant conditions – light attendance, with many other brethren poised onshore, for an imminent larger swell – a camped-out bro told me that saturday morning was considerably better – weather has turned back to clear and hot, but with more spicy wind variety, and strong hints of coming merry surfing times -**********- o

nly another winding will this stream make, only another murmur in this glade, and then shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean – k gibran ….

Come back Huey

Posted on August 24th, 2009 in Big Picture, Dee Why.

Hello Friends,
Hmmm. The models were showing a possibly surfable pulse for today… Sadly, it has not come to pass. We’ve got flatness instead and it does not appear as though we can expect much improvement in the situation any time soon. And this despite a massive and intense low pressure system in the Southern Ocean. The high over the Tasman is just too strong and reaches too far south for all that energy to get into the east coast’s swell window. At this stage all one can hope for is that Huey will confound the forecasts by writing us a better script.

Warning Summary at issue time:
Gale Warning south of Ulladulla. Strong Wind Warning between Seal Rocks and Ulladulla, including Sydney Closed Waters, and for north of Wooli.

Synoptic Situation
A deep low moving through the Southern Ocean will increasing north to northwesterly winds over most coastal waters on Monday. An active cold front associated with this low is forecast to move into the Tasman Sea early Tuesday morning with winds reaching gale force over southern and central parts of the NSW coast. A second front is expected to cross the southern NSW coast Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. A high pressure ridge will develop over northern waters mid week and extend over southern waters later in the week.
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong Wind Warning.
Monday until midnight: Wind: W/NW 10/15 knots inshore, 15/20 knots offshore, increasing to 25/33 knots during the day.Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres, rising to 2 to 3 metres during the day.Swell: E/NE less than 1 metre.
Tuesday: Wind: W/NW 30/40 knots, easing to 20/30 knots.Sea: 3 to 4 metres, abating to 2 to 3 metres.Swell: E/NE less than 1 metre.
Wednesday: Wind: W’ly 25/33 knots.

Still small if not flat

Posted on August 24th, 2009 in Manly.

More of the same. I am over all this dribble. Especially given the waves they have been getting down in VIC this last week. Not fair.  Oh well its warm and sunny still and thats something they can only dream about in August. Outlook still not to flash but we may get a small pulse come Wednesday. Go the mighty AB’s.

F – L – A – T

Posted on August 24th, 2009 in Surf Reports.

Don’t even think about a surf this morning. Not even enough for  a mega SUP at the moment.

Meanwhile, ole Hurricane Bill served up some chunky slabs for the boys in Charleston South Carolina USA on the weekend

C C Small

Posted on August 24th, 2009 in Central Coast, Surf Reports.

Fine, dry and mild on the Central Coast this Monday morning.  The swell is smooth, small and weak at 1 – 2 foot from the east.  There is a light northwest breeze forecast to strengthen later.  Low tide 0445 and high tide around 1100.  Local barometer 998 hpa, 14 degrees C. 95% humidity.   Have a great week.

Byron Bay Today Aug 23rd / 09

Posted on August 24th, 2009 in Byron, Local Colour, Surf Reports.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well folks it was a sunny Sunday, In Byron Bay. However if you were hoping for any serious waves, you would have been looking for something else to do. There was only one spot with a reasonable wave in Byron Bay today. But unfortunately one of the surf schools claimed it as being exclusively theirs on a busy Sunday, go figure. Not exactly a winning move for public relations guys. Oh well there’s just no working some folks out. Be that as it may, a few desperados went and got wet anyway just for the sake of it. There were also heaps of beginners having a go in the white water, which they should be commended for. Learning in the white water is the way to do it, Hmm maybe they should be teaching instead. We had sunshine and warm temps most of the day, with light north easterly sea breezes. The water was clear and pretty warm. There just wasn’t any significant swell to speak of, which is pretty much in line with the weather patterns for this time of year. So just take it when you get it, and enjoy a stroll and a swim when you don’t. After all if we’ve got to wait for swell, then there’s no better place to wait than right here, In Byron Bay Today.