Hello Friends,
After looking at the MHL data for Sydney this morning (1 metre of 5 sec period south wind chop) and the BoM’s wind report (15-20 kts of SSE), I was unsurprised to see it looking pretty paltry on the cams. Looks like an excellent day to get some work done.
You might want to actually, because later in the week is looking pretty interesting wave wise for Sydney. Could be some big east swell filling in from about Weds onward. Looks like it’ll be strongly onshore at first, but by Friday the north corners could be coming into play … ya lucky pups!
Over on this side of the planet, well, in Santa Barbara anyway, the weather was mild, sunny and windless. It was also, but not quite, waveless. About a metre of WNW wind swell was coming in at a spot called Sands beach (imaginative name eh?) and myself, Roberto (old hands will remember our erstwhile Puerto Rico reporter) and childhood pal PQ went in for a paddle about on mals. Actually jagged a few in the waist high range too. But is the water cold. I reckon it was at best 12-13.
I’m currently without a water camera so no pictures of our amazing triumphs of wave riding skill to share, but I did take a snap to remember the day by…
