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Manly and Northy (plus vid)

North Narrabeen as the wind started to build

At 0830 North Steyne looked the goods. Only four people in the water too. Of course you needed to be a very good female surfer to be in the group. High percentage of closeouts along the Manly stretch, but while it was afflicted too, North Steyne had the best waves I would see between Manly […]

Fading but light offshore early

dy surfer

Hello Friends, Swell’s dropped overnight as expected, but there were still a few waist high plus waves to be had along the beach and, very occasionally, the point. Wind was lightly from the NW and the latest data from the MHL buoy (c. 0400) was showing 1.7 metres of 9s swell from the SSE, along […]

Still solid and definitely cleaner this am

dy point wave

Hello Friends, Wind was offshore at daybreak and the crew was on it at both the point and along the beach. Out at sea the main swell energy was coming from the SE at close to 11 seconds apart. Swell peaks were around two metres. There’s still some smaller but similar period stuff coming from […]

Swell but junky (vid)

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Hello Friends, Well we have some energy thanks to a SE and NE combo. Swell is around the 2 metre mark and periods are 10-14 sec. That’d be brilliant, but unfortunately the SE wind didn’t let up overnight and this morning sees steady onshores most places (Manly ought to be okay though). Dee Why as […]

A few waves in Manly this morning (vid)

North Steyne surfer

Paddled out at the Bower this morning on spec. My theory was that there might be the occasional solid set in the mix. Turned out that I was right. Water’s dropped several degrees too. Sets seemed to be getting a little more frequent as the morning went on – and the tide filled in. Biggest […]

Waves early but wind to swing SE

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Hello Friends, Wind was going pretty hard from first light. At 0700 it was 15-20 kts from the SSW at North Head. That meant comparatively clean conditions at the Dee Why end of the beach where there was also a bit more swell than this time yesterday. The MHL buoy was showing a mix of […]

The Goat’s Surf Forecast

Surf forecast issued Thursday 25 February 2016: Seven day outlook for Sydney: We’ve had warm air, warm water, there’s been waves of varying quality, and that will all continue through the weekend and next week.. Friday: around 1-2, 2 metres or so East North East/East South East Saturday: a bit bigger say 2-3 metres basically […]

Northy little wind swell (vid)

north narrabeen video

Hot Thursday afternoon but happily for the lucky crew at Northy, there were a few soft little peaks on offer to make cooling off all the more pleasant.

Scrappy and full early but small waves

dy point

Hello Friends, Case of morning sickness at the point and along the beach at Dee Why this morning. Wind was north about 4-8 kts when I took the picture but the forecast tells us it’ll be 15-20 kts from the N-NE soon enough. At 0400 the MHL buoy recorded the swell coming from the NE. […]