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Curlfresh Rpt

Similar to yesterday, except the size has backed off pretty considerably. Glassy, offshore, blue skies, bloody cold & weak shoulder-high bumps

Fine, dry and very cold on the Central Coast this Wednesday morning.  The swell is smooth and smallish at 1 – 2 feet from the east southeast.  There is a chilly light west northwest breeze.  Low tide at 0450 and high tide around 1045.  Local barometer 1012 hpa, 1 degrees C. 90% humidity.  Have a good one!

Desperados Paradise, In Byron Bay Today.

Ok Huey, enough’s enough, the crew are getting a little tired of the flat spell, in Byron Bay today. Or at least that’s the general consensus based on the folks I’ve been talking with today. The repeated question is this, ‘hey when are we going to see some decent swell in the bay?’ Well the answer is this, I don’t know. What I do know is that the current weather pattern looks like it will hold until the weekend at least. That pretty much means small waves at best, sunshine and plenty of it, and cold, cold nights in the bay. As far as us surfers are concerned, that all adds up to a desperado’s paradise, In Byron Bay Today.

Even colder this morning, but sunny all day

Got wet too

Joined a reasonable size crew at Longy around midday for what turned out to be a fun, if lully, sesh. Mostly it was in the waist high range like this morning, but every now and then we’d get a more substantial set. I’d put that down to the 10 sec average period. Even the old guy got a few of the bigger ones. That wind was damn chilly though!

Shooting from the water in beach breaks is not always that productive. Although I had the Canon PowerShot D10 on board, I only got a couple vaguely worthwhile shots to mark the occasion. The D10 produces a clean image and is pretty straightforward to use. I’d like it to have a burst mode and a better zoom range would be good as well. I found shutter lag and shot to shot processing times made getting more than a couple shots in the few seconds a beachbreak wave lasts something of a challenge.

PICS: Longy 0900-0930

Stopped by Longy on an errand this morning and ended up sticking around for half an hour to get a few shots of the crew having fun on a few peaks. Average wave was around the waist to chest high mark on take off, but as you’ll see, there were a few bigger than that as well. Air was bitterly cold, especially with the offshore breeze. Bet everybody out there had numb fingers, ears, toes, etc!

Long Reef Tue 30 June 2010 (0900-0930) – Images by Don Norris

Dee Why: COLD, small wave on the Point and a few up the beach

It is the middle of winter so the cold’s not really unexpected but geez, it’s hard to get used to it when you step outside and just feel the wind go right through you, even when you’re all rugged up with fleecy and a scarf and a beanie. Checked Curly earlier this a.m. and there’s some swell there but it was looking pretty ordinary. Same at DY beachie and the Point, though there is the odd waist high set on the Point and a chest high one now and again up the beach, but the banks looks pretty crappy.

Beach scene about to change.

In case you haven’t heard, the Dee Why beachfront is about to change again. Construction is slated to begin in July (and after the last debacle of poor scheduling when the beachfront renovations happened a few years ago, who knows when it will finish) and here’s what’s on the cards:

1. Parking along the E side of The Strand (pictured below) will be eliminated

2. Footpath on the W side of The Strand to be extended to a total of 6 metres from the shopfronts into the current lane of parking.

3. Traffic to be shifted such that Southbound traffic will occupy what is now the parking lane on the E side and the lane now used for Northbound traffic.

4. Extra footpath space to be used for outdoor dining (and the restaurants charged accordingly by the Council, of course)

5. Car parking spaces that will be eliminated on the E side of The Strand will be replaced by extending car parking at the surf club into current grassy area near the Lagoon.

And if that weren’t enough, beginning in December Stella Blu will be leveled to the ground and a new block of units built above it with a two story underground carpark built below.

Freshy/Curly Rpt

Glassy with blue skies. However, the reality is it’s pretty cold this morning, and that waist-high bumps just aren’t that powerful. Just letting you know…

Fine, dry and cold on the Central Coast this Tuesday morning.  The swell is smooth and smallish at 1 – 2 feet from the east southeast.  There is a chilly moderate west northwest breeze.  Low tide at 0415 and high tide around 1010.  Local barometer 1011 hpa, 4 degrees C. 82% humidity.  Have a good one!