After holding off until around 1300, the southerly started to fill in along Sydney’s beaches. As the day ends, the swell is still around the two metre mark at sea with an average period of 9 seconds. It’s SE and we’re getting some okay size sets every now and then thanks to some rogue 11 second period stuff. According to the Bureau the energy should stick around overnight and with luck tomorrow will be something of a repeat of today with light winds for the early and a couple metres of 8-9 sec S-SE swell.

I got in the water at the point this morning and as a consequence will have some water snaps to post as a gallery later. Set waves were kinda fun, but we had to wait around a bit and there was a pretty fair crowd on it. I put this down to the fact that Dee Why was probably about the only reasonable wave from Manly to Mona Vale. Anyway, after I got out I did a bit more shooting with a Canon 5D MkII and the 100-400mm lens that I have on test at the moment. A real nice bit of kit, but then it’d want to be for the $5k price tag. When I get the pic files all processed, I’ll load them to a gallery.

Hope you’ve had a great week and are looking forward to a top old weekend!

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Friday until midnight: Wind: Southerly 10 to 20 knots, decreasing to 10 to 15 knots later.Sea: Up to 1.5 metres.Swell: Southeasterly 2 metres.
Saturday: Wind: Southerly 10 to 15 knots tending south to southwesterly up to 10 knots during the morning then tending south to southeasterly by early evening.Sea: Below 1 metre.Swell: Southeasterly about 2 metres.
Sunday: Wind: West to southwesterly 5 to 10 knots becoming southwesterly 10 to 15 knots later in the evening.
Monday: Wind: South to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending west to southwesterly up to 10 knots during the afternoon then tending west to northwesterly during the evening.