"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

Last Day of Spring

Not the best day of surfing to say goodby to Spring. About 2 ft of SE swell getting into Manly and a south wind has everyone hiding in the south half.  Most people you see on waves are riding a longboard so I’d say you need some foam or a small wave board today. Bigger […]

Little waves for the early

Hello Friends Not much wind about as Saturday got started – and there were little waves too. Tide’s dropping to a low at 1240 and swell is out of the SE at nearly a metre with a period of 9 seconds. Despite the numbers, the waves look mostly to be in the chest range on […]

The Goat’s Surf Forecast

Surf forecast issued Friday 29 November 2013: Seven day outlook for Sydney: Current short period dead South swell going straight past so relatively small and messy compared to outside. Saturday, Sunday, Monday: in the 1-2 metre range at places that like dead South swell. Tuesday: swinging to the North East, say 1 metre or so […]

South End

From the BOM radar you can see leftover NE windswell which explains the crew hanging down near the Corso out of the wind.  You can also see the new south swell which explains Don’s photo of the bigger size messy surf at Dee Why.  The only hope for the weekend is the south swell blows […]

Grey skies, small and junky but not totally flat

Hello Friends, Just a quick note for now to say that there are waist plus sets to be had amongst the choppy greyness of Friday morning. Wind is south 10-20 kts, swell is mainly south (but there’s NE in it too). The south component is around 2 metres at 7 seconds though. Next tide is […]

Sideshore sets

Hello Friends, Running over an hour behind on the report this morning thanks to a Windows update. Grrrrr! Anyway, there’s 1.7 metres of 9 second period ESE swell showing on the MHL buoy this morning, so it’s only down a little over yesterday. Wind is out of the north though, so I’m not sure there’s […]

Weds fun morning for all

Hello Friends, Light offshores, sunny skies and a couple of metres of 10 second period ESE swell are making for a fine looking morning. Lots and lots of folks partaking of the plentiful chest to head plus sets at both the beach and point at Dee Why. Given the swell and wind combo, I’ll bet […]

Don’t pause to think

I knew (along with ever other bloke) this morning would be fun. Except I paused for that second after the alarm went off the have a wee think and next minute I woke up 30mins late – fatal mistake. Nice regular 3-4ft lines coming in with a healthy crew in attendance. I’d say a few […]

Piccies from Dee Why point this morning

Went for a swim at the point this morning to test out Nikon’s new AW1 waterproof camera. Weather conditions were kinda dull unfortunately. But worse, despite the numbers looking the goods, the waves were really pretty ordinary. A few solid overhead sets at the point, but for the most part they were kinda flabby and […]

Theres waves

Late morning has things cleaned up and a nice just-overhead size around the middle of the beach.  Looks a bit slow waiting for a set and finding one with a longer wall but hey it’s clean and not small so we should all be out there. 9am low and drppping south wind forecast. Mark – […]