Hello Friends,
Smooth and glassy most places as play opened this morning. And there was swell. At 0400 it was around 2 metres and coming from the SE at 9 seconds apart, so although the tide was running into the high at 0610, there were surf options around. I saw a few folk bobbing around up at Northy and even a pair of hopefuls at carparks, but no one caught anything while I watched. Down the beach toward the Marquesas, the energy levels were reasonable, but there were no discernible peaks and consequently no takers.
Around the corner at Longy the outside bombies were just showing on the biggest sets, but everyone was right inside where the shories were offering waist to occasionally shoulder plus faces on the bigger ones. There were various peaks all the way along the beach from there down to just past No Mans The point was participating in the fun, but it was pretty inconsistent looking and sets were half to two-thirds their counterparts along the beach.
From the look of things, playtime will last until the NE starts to come into effect late this morning.
Swell’s supposed to fade away over the next 24 hours and tomorrow’s not looking too red hot for surfin’. The rest of the week, well, hmmmm… swell and showers and onshores is the forecast. So enjoy the conditions today I’d say!
Forecast for Saturday until midnight
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Winds
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Northeasterly about 10 knots increasing to 15 to 20 knots in the late afternoon.
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Seas
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Around 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres by early evening.
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Swell
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Southeasterly 1.5 metres, increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres offshore.
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Weather
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Partly cloudy. 20% chance of a shower offshore, near zero chance elsewhere.
