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Monday thumping swell but raw too

dy point surfing

Hello Friends, You know it’s reasonable size when you can hear the waves from more than a km inland. The wind in the trees tells another part of the story too. Swell noise plus wind generally means onshore to sideshore conditions. As of 0600 the buoy data was showing 3.8 metres of 12-second SSE swell […]

Sunday looks like an absolute corker

DY beach

Hello Friends, What a morning! Clear skies, light offshore breeze for the early session and above all heaps of fun shoulder to head high energy SSE swell. At 0700 it was 3 metres and coming from 158 degrees at 10 seconds apart. Tide was high at 0820 Here’s the Bureau’s call: Forecast for Sunday until […]

Saturday with waves

long reef waves

Hello Friends, As of 0600 swell was SE at 10.5 seconds apart with an average height at sea of 3.1 metres. My Saturday morning pre-702 ABC surf report run-around revealed that there were few opportunities on the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch as we approached the high tide at 0735. The odd bodyboard cruncher at south Narrabeen maybe… […]

The Goat’s Surf Forecast

Surf forecast issued Friday 28 August 2015: Seven day outlook for Sydney: Well it looks pretty certain there will be waves over the weekend and most of next week… Whether or not they are ‘pretty’, or pretty messy,  pretty wild, or pretty awful with wind behind them will depend on the formation, direction and movement […]

Friday smaller but fun looking and clean

dy point

Hello Friends, After peaking yesterday morning at 2.8 metres, MHL’s whizzy new web graphics show that it’s down to 1.6 metres off Sydney with an average period of 11 seconds and has swung to the south. Wind is light WNW as I write this but it’s supposed to be SW late this morning and going […]

Thr am pics from Dee Why point

Went down to the point to grab a few snaps late this morning. Reasonable size crew on it and definitely some 2x overhead wave faces on the bombs. It was consistent, but I don’t know what it was, the tide maybe, the swell angle possibly, but lots of waves were just not that special, despite […]

Thursday and solid

dy point

Hello Friends, Dee Why point was overhead on sets at 0700. It was pretty crowded too and it looked as though there weren’t too many options along the beach. Wind was light WNW and the MHL buoy was showing 2.5 metres of 10-sec SE swell. Tide was high at 0600 and will be back to […]

Weds am pics from Manly

sth steyne surfer

Morning update Looks as though the cleanest option was Fairy Bower. From there north to Dee Why (and beyond) the surface conditions were very choppy and messy. Freshy and Curly were useless and you needed to be very keen to bother with Dee Why point. Will keep an eye on it through the day and […]

Weds and swell up again but scrappy

dy point waves

Hello Friends, The odd shower rolling through this morning and wind along the coast was generally under 10 kts but from south. Swell has come back up, but it’s nothing like as clean as yesterday. The latest MHL data was showing 2.5 metres of 9-sec SE swell for Sydney. As the pictures show that was […]

Tuesday showing fine lines early

dy point surfing

Hello Friends, Dee Why point was well populated early. It was quite consistent looking and the bigger sets were into the head high range with the odd plus. Offshore wind was keeping surface conditions smooth. The gale warning is still in place this morning. At 0700 it was W-WNW 10-20 kts, but the call is […]