"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

Easter Friday and we have waves

Hello Friends,

Wandered down to the beach a little after 0900 to see if I could find anything worth taking pictures of. First stop was Curly where in the course of around 40 mins, it went from good size buy marginally onshore to good size but thoroughly hacked up.

It was tough going getting waves for the goodly size crew out there and I didn’t really come back with much in the way of keepers. Very demanding conditions indeed.

But around the corner at Dee Why it was even more wretched. Not as badly affected by the wind, but the short period, straight south swell was barely refracting in. Heaps of bods in the water but very, very few waves of any consequence. Eventually one sort of catchable one dribbled around the point and an energetic mal rider managed to milk it some distance. (see below)

From what the Goat says we can expect the swell to hang around at roughly the same size into the middle of next week. My reading of the models suggests this is, as usual, pretty much spot on. Some of the riffs on the basic WAM data suggest that SE spots may kick into the good quality range for the early on both Sunday and Monday. The Bureau is calling for the wind to stay out of the southern quarters through the long weekend, so getting in before mid-morning will be the go.

Anyway, have yourself a good one!


Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong Wind Warning.
Friday until midnight: Wind: S/SW 15/20 knots reaching 20/25 knots offshore increasing during the morning to 20/25 knots, reaching 25/30 knots offshore. Sea: 2 to 3 metres.Swell: SE about 2 metres.
Saturday: Wind: S 20/25 knots, reaching 25/30 knots offshore.Sea: 2 to 3 metres. Swell: SE 2 to 2.5 metres.
Sunday: Wind: S/SE 15/25.