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Archive for May 2010
PICS: Curly 25 May 2010, Tue morning
Posted on May 25th, 2010 in Click! Pics for folk, Curl Curl, Top stories.Stopped by Curly this morning not really expecting to find much. Surprisingly interesting looking before the high tide and wind became issues. I only had a short time to take pictures, but I managed to get about 60 of at least ten different people. As usual all pics are available without the watermark for a very reasonable fee. Just double click on the one you want and find the add to cart link. It should all be pretty obvious!
Curl Curl 25 May 2010 (Tue am) – Images by Don Norris
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Posted on May 25th, 2010 in Dee Why.Hello Friends,
No reason to have Dee Why on the check out list this morning. Swell is only about a metre from the east and the power is a marginal 8 seconds. The wind settings are okay for now, so it might be possible to find a little thing at a stretch of beach with an east facing orientation. I’d be impressed with anything above waist high after watching Dee Why for a bit.
The models are lined up with the Bureau’s call for a strong SE change driven ramping up of the wave size. Unfortunately 25-35 kts of SE to E wind does not promise much in the way of quality. You’d have to expect sizable but junky. Oh, and the Bureau says it’ll be raining heavily at times as well. I guess I probably won’t be taking pictures on Wednesday. Maybe I’ll have a chance between the showers on Thursday, but with luck there’ll still be some energy around for what currently looks like being a pleasant Friday.
Have fun with your day!
TIDES: L @0545, H @1150
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Tuesday until midnight: Wind: Northwest to southwesterly less than 10 knots, becoming northeast to southeasterly in the afternoon.Sea: to 1metre.Swell: Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres. Isolated thunderstorms.
Wednesday: Wind: Northwest to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots early ahead of an east to southeasterly change 25 to 35 knots during the morning, easing to 20 to 30 knots at night.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres rising 2.5 to 3.5 metres in the morning. Swell: Easterly 1 to 2 metres increasing 2 to 3 metres.
Thursday: Wind: South to southeasterly 20 to 25 knots decreasing to 15 to 20 knots during the morning then decreasing to 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon.
Causes: Peter Cundall “Florentine – worth more standing”
Posted on May 25th, 2010 in Environment, Good causes, Top stories.Peter Cundall coming to Sydney on Saturday 29 May 2010!
Peter Cundall, Australia’s favourite gardener, is coming to Sydney to carry on his fight to save the Upper Florentine Valley in Tasmania from logging. Though better known as the host of the ABC’s Gardening Australia television program and a newspaper columnist about gardening across the country, Peter has had a life long passion for the environment that is now being translated into direct action to protect old growth forest. Currently on trial in Tasmania for his actions to protect the forest, Peter is talking some time off to come up to Sydney to talk to us about this issue.
The area of old growth forest under threat of destruction is the upper Florentine Valley. This beautiful forest was mooted for World heritage listing such is its environmental value. Instead, logging operations have now started pushing roads through the forest preparing for its destruction.
Peter states that “The basic driving force behind the mindless destruction of our most beautiful, ancient forests is nothing more than uncontrolled greed. The corporations profiting from this cynical, wholesale carnage have no thought for the future and are concerned only with trying to make as much money as possible in the shortest possible time. We can and will stop them. We have no choice but to keep fighting for our most precious places and the astonishing balance of living things which is a true, ecologically-intact wilderness.”
Peter will speak at the “Florentine – Worth more Standing” fundraising evening at Forestville Memorial Hall this coming Saturday 29th May from 6.30 to 10.30 pm. The evening will feature gourmet finger food; silent and life auctions of items donated for the event and live music. Entry costs $60/$40 (concession). Bookings are through Dr Conny Harris on 0432 643 295.
The evening will also support a local northern beaches group – “Spot-a-Shark” – who are tracking the critically endangered Grey Nurse sharks along the New South Wales coast using the shark’s individually unique skin markings.
So don’t miss your chance to come along and hear Peter Cundall and help save this beautiful valley from destruction.
Peter is available for interview prior to the evening. Please contact Conny Harris on 0432 643 295 to arrange this.
Check your local conditions
Posted on May 25th, 2010 in South Carolina.We have a developing low to the east of the northern most Bahamas’. This feature will gain a significant amount of strength over the next 72 hours and will
likely become a non-tropical gale. Even if it stays non-tropical (cold core), it could still be a named event as a sub-tropical gale. If so, it would be Alex.
More importantly, this feature will be drifting toward the North Carolina & South Carolina coasts over the next few days. NE winds 15-25 mph are expected. Winds of gale force may touch Cape
Hatteras. Buoy data indicates the peak swell will be Wednesday am at 6 feet. So check your local conditions.
Roberto
Posted on May 25th, 2010 in Central Coast, Surf Reports.
Heavy showers and mild on the Central Coast this Tuesday morning. The swell is smooth and small at 1 – 2 feet from the east southeast. There is light southwest breeze forecast to go southeast then northeast later. High tide at 0550 and low tide around 1150. Local barometer 1006 hpa, 13 degrees C. 98% humidity. Have a good one!
Reflection, In Byron Bay Today.
Posted on May 25th, 2010 in Byron.
We headed out and found a quiet peaceful day in the bay. Then we noticed the sunflowers loving placed on the rocks. They were beautiful yet somehow had an ominous feel to the way they quietly sat there. Then came the news a much loved friend has passed away over the weekend, a young man, a wonderful human being and a fabulous surfer. Out of respect to family friends I won’t mention who at this point, suffice to say he is already being sorely missed, and tears have been shed in his name. A few went and had a few slides out of respect, and some even managed to crack a smile from memory. Yet most were just in shock and reflecting on how important it is to be grateful for every moment we have, In Byron Bay Today.
Little Monday
Posted on May 24th, 2010 in Dee Why.Hello Friends,
Yesterday’s energy levels seem to have faded back a fair amount overnight. Swell’s still out of the SE, but it’s now only about a metre at sea. The 8 second average period hasn’t changed, but the slightly longer period component evident yesterday has disappeared from the data.
All of which adds up to rather minor conditions. If you can find something in the waist high range, I reckon you’ll be doing very well in Sydney.
Outlook is for a couple days of marginal conditions before we get a small perk on Weds into the waist to chest high range. The models are still calling for something a bit bigger late in the week. How much bigger? Into the head high plus range if we’re lucky according to some riffs on the data…
And the weather today in Sydney? Here’s the latest from the Australian Bureau of Meterology
Forecast for Monday
Early fog and mist patches in the west. Cloud increasing with light
rain developing during the afternoon. Light to moderate northwest to
northeast winds.
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Monday until midnight: Wind: Light and variable winds tending northeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon and evening.Sea: to about 1 metre.Swell: South to southeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Tuesday: Wind: Northwest to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: Easterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Wednesday: Wind: West to southwesterly winds 10 to 15 knots ahead of an east to southeasterly change 20 to 30 knots.
Cronulla report by Aquasea Wetsuit Repairs
Posted on May 24th, 2010 in Surf Reports.1-2foot lazy swell today, heavy cloud above, light WNW offshore breeze, small fun stuff only, suits mals.
WIND: NNW at 7kph. WATER TEMP: 22 degrees.
FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with light rain developing during the afternoon. Light to moderate northwest winds tending northeast.
MAX AIR TEMP TODAY: 17-19 degrees.
SWELL: ESE 1-2.5m at 8 seconds.
WINDSURFERS: Average conditions today.
BOAT DIVING: Good sea conditions outside, vis around 12m+ on the TUGGERAH and Kelloe, 10m at Barons Hut, thanks to www.seatamerdive.com Sydney Scuba Diving Boat Charter and Ian Griffiths “Griffiti”. SHORE DIVING: 6 metres vis at Oak Park. 5+ metres at Shiprock.
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Posted on May 24th, 2010 in Surf Reports.1-2foot lazy swell today, heavy cloud above, light WNW offshore breeze, small fun stuff only, suits mals.
WIND: NNW at 7kph. WATER TEMP: 22 degrees.
FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with light rain developing during the afternoon. Light to moderate northwest winds tending northeast.
MAX AIR TEMP TODAY: 17-19 degrees.
SWELL: ESE 1-2.5m at 8 seconds.
WINDSURFERS: Average conditions today.
BOAT DIVING: Good sea conditions outside, vis around 12m+ on the TUGGERAH and Kelloe, 10m at Barons Hut, thanks to www.seatamerdive.com Sydney Scuba Diving Boat Charter and Ian Griffiths “Griffiti”. SHORE DIVING: 6 metres vis at Oak Park. 5+ metres at Shiprock.
wetsuit repairs at Aquasea, Sydney NSW. 02.95404774 for wetty and wettie repairs contact Lesley at AQUASEA 02.95404774 for a quick turn around, zippers tears cuts and all alterations to neoprene.
See ya – www.aquasea.com.au in Sydney – wetsuit wettie wetty wetsuits repair and repairs for surfing scuba windsurfers ring Aquasea on 02.95404774, go diving without tanks ie tankless diving using 12 v volt compressors also known as hookah dive diving with www.aquasea.com.au in Sydney NSW Ph: 02.95404774 led hid halogen torches and lights video boat transom lights for underwater lighting at night similar aqua cam camera and cameras see www.aquasea.com.au for stainless wire in your balustrades and for underwater lights and housings cameras. SYDNEY NSW AUSTRALIA (Ph: 61.2.95404774).
www.aquasea.com.au repairs alters wetsuits wettie wetty fin chops zipper repair broken zipper for surfing scuba triathalon kayak canoe board cover ring 02.95404774
www.aquasea.com.au makes 12 volt hookah units for tankless diving without tanks scuba powerdive power dive 12 v 12 volt regulators hookah diving for boat hull cleaning ring 02.95404774
www.aquasea.com.au makes underwater lights video boat lights aqua cam camera cameras housings torches led hid bubble arm baseplates ring 02.95404774
www.aquasea.com.au aqua skipper aquaskipper, shark shield, sea doo sea scooter electric snorkel AGM batteries chargers. www.aquasea.com.au ring 02.95404774 P.O.Box 2141 Taren Point Sydney 2229 NSW aquasea underwater products
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Off shore low system will happen soon.
Posted on May 24th, 2010 in South Carolina.Had a nice morning session Sunday and there may or may not be anything Monday morning as the models show stronger winds through the evening, but I would get up and check. The Low will either make things too rough or genertae some decent swell on Tuesday . Too early to tell, so stay tuned.
Roberto