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

Glassy little bumps at NE spots

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Hello Friends, A calm, sultry morning under grey skies as the last day of 2016 got underway. Happily there were also some glassy little ENE lines at the magnet spots. Size is around the knee to waist range on the catchable ones at the better exposed spots. The MHL buoy was showing 1.4m of 7-sec […]

Very little going on at the beach, but…

dy beach

Hello Friends, After a warm night, Friday kicks off with high overcast, no wind and almost no wave energy at Dee Why. There were a few folks catching ankle to knee high dribblers just north of Kiddies when I checked for the first time at 0640. Tide was heading into the 1.8m high at 0945. […]

The Goat’s New Year Surf Forecast… and TG’s New Year Message

Surf forecast issued Thursday 29 December 2016: Seven day outlook for Sydney: The surf should be going down from today’s conditions, but there should still be enough movement in the ocean over the next several days, to get cool and to have fun in the water, along with everyone else! Friday: down in the 1-2 metre […]

Heat to come and tiny waves too

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Hello Friends, Interesting misty quality to the Dee Why seascape at 0645 this morning, and it looked like there could be little waist-ish sets at the beach and maybe even occasionally the point. Wind was near calm, but it should be northerly 15-20 kts going NE later. The MHL data from early this morning was […]

Little but catchable early

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Hello Friends, A moderate and steady 10-12 kt NNE breeze was already going at 0730 along the Northern Beaches. The MHL data from 0500 showed a touch over a metre of 7-sec ENE wind swell washing into the Sydney region. As the pictures show, surface conditions were choppy but not crazily so and there were […]

Little high tide bumps for the extra keen

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Hello Friends, A faint south breeze was wafting in at 0750 this morning. It should swing NE a little later and get up to 15-25 kts by late afternoon. Tide was just on high and there were a fair number of folk down toward the south end of the Dee Why-Longy stretch. Waves looked to […]

High tide early means fat and full

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Hello Friends, Not much doing at Dee Why as of 0700. The early high tide and light NNE wind aren’t improving the metre or so of 7 second east wind swell washing in. The point’s not a surf option and anything catchable along the beach is looking marginal at best. I reckon a waist high […]

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Hello Friends, A metre of 7-sec ENE wind bump washing softly into the beaches of Sydney on Christmas morning. Warming up quickly too, so it’s easy to believe we’ll easily get to the predicted 27. Tide was high at 0635 and is now dropping to the low at 1305. Wind will ramp up later from […]

Look around morning

Hello Friends, A metre of 6-7 sec east wind swell dribbling into the beaches of Sydney with light breezes early but going NE 15-20 kts later. You have to hunt around, but there are knee to waist bumps here and there. I spotted some up at Northy and in the middle of the Longy to […]

Hopefuls in the water early

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Hello Friends, NNE 8-10 kt at 0740 and swell is 1.3 metres out of the SSE with a period of 6 seconds. So for the optimistic crew in the water at Dee Why beach the wave options are, shall we say, on the small side. From the look of it, ankle to knee high is […]