Hello Friends,

Is your voter rego up to date? You’ve got until 8pm tonight to get your signed rego in. Here’s the AEC link. I liked the person on the radio who said, enroll to vote or your parents will decide who should run the country. Not sure if your rego is up to date? Check it here.

Okay, important stuff out of the way, now some more important stuff. My first morning back on the northern beaches, so I had a bit of a drive around to see what was what.

First stop was Warriewood. No one in the water there because the swell is just too weak and small. There were a few bods in the water at Cooks and another few up at Mona. In both cases the quality was okay, but it was struggling to make waist high. The sort of waves you go for when there’s pretty much nothing else on the to do list and you fancy getting wet for the exercise.

Next stop was over the hill at Northy. A touch better than the previous two, but nothing extraordinary as the small crowd confirmed.

Last stop was Longy where I got a snap of a couple standups messing about near the lagoon entrance and spotted a cute empty set wave down toward No Mans. There were maybe half a dozen bods between there and Dee Why, but as with elsewhere this morning, it’s inconsistent and bumping along at just above flatness.

If they have it right, the latest run of surf forecasts call for on again-off again 1-2 metre south swell. Nothing too great though because a lot of it is going to be short period stuff. Tomorrow arvo looks the best shot for south spots atm…

Have a great day!

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Strong Wind Warning.
Monday until midnight: Wind: West to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots inshore reaching 20 knots offshore, tending southwesterly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon. Winds freshening to southerly 15 to 25 knots later in the evening.Sea: Below 1.5 metres rising up to 2.5 metres offshore in the evening.Swell: East to southeast to 1 metre. Isolated thunderstorms possible.
Tuesday: Wind: South to southwesterly 20 to 30 knots decreasing to 15 to 25 knots during the afternoon.Sea: 2 to 3 metres.Swell: Southeasterly to 1 metre tending southerly 1.5 metres in the evening.
Wednesday: Wind: South to southwesterly 15 to 25 knots, possibly reaching 30 knots in the afternoon.

Hello Friends,

Well, that was fun. Drove from Hay to home in a day. As we set out I said to the family, “I wonder where we’ll see the first car with boards on top…” Turned out to be way earlier than I expected. Instead of somewhere near Sydney, I spotted a couple mals atop a serious looking long distance surf mobile in a tiny little town called Weethale. Between there and about West Wyalong we were only seeing a car every 10 minutes, so I was impressed. But here’s the kicker, we did not see any more boards after that. Not a one.

So anyway, how’s the outlook for tomorrow? Seems as though we can expect the westerly pattern to last but the models reckon the swell will die out overnight. Clearly there was more going on this morning than had looked like happening when I checked the situation last night. There was a lot more east than predicted so that, plus the 10s period, kicked some useful looking options in judging by the pics Doug posted from this morning at Curly. The longer period stuff is still showing up north at Coffs, but down south where the Bureau and the models say we should be getting stuff tomorrow, it’s looking very small. I’m punting on near flatness…

As usual under such circumstances, I hope to be proven spectacularly wrong. I’m hanging out to get wet after a week away from waves!

Go well and catchya tomorrow morning.

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Sunday until midnight: Wind: North to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots becoming northwesterly 15 to 20 knots by early evening.Sea: Below 1 metre increasing to 1 to 2 metres offshore by early evening.Swell: Southeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Monday: Wind: West to northwesterly 15 to 20 knots tending westerly 10 to 15 knots during the morning then tending southwesterly during the afternoon. Winds southerly 20 to 25 knots later in the evening.Sea: Below 1.5 metres rising up to 2.5 metres offshore in the evening.Swell: East to southeast to 1 metre.
Tuesday: Wind: South to southwesterly 20 to 30 knots decreasing to 10 to 20 knots during the afternoon.
Wednesday: Wind: South to southwesterly 15 to 25 knots, increasing to 20 to 30 knots around dawn.