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The Goat’s Surf Forecast

Surf forecast issued Thursday 30 November 2017: Seven day outlook for Sydney: First of all… I said to Waz I had to do a forecast tonight… He said, So you just cut and paste?… Cut and Paste??!! The surf forecasts are all TG’s original, ir-responsible, work. Hours of detailed analysis of lots of complicated stuff […]

The waiting game

Hello Friends, Impressive clouds over the city this morning but far from impressive conditions at Dee Why as we finished up November. Wind was faintly SSW early but should come around to the NE and reach 10 -15 kts as the day warms up. The MHL buoy is showing a metre of swell height at […]

Maybe up a tiny bit at Dee Why

Hello Friends, Light fog just burning off when at 0700 when I grabbed the pictures. It looks as though the energy levels might be ever so slightly higher than yesterday. The MHL data shows no real change in the height (1 m) or direction (E by ESE) from yesterday, but as of 0500 the period […]

Micro morning at Dee Why

Hello Friends, Just a faint offshore breeze at 0615 ensured a smooth surfaced ocean at Dee Why. Out at sea the MHL buoy was detecting a metre of 9-sec ESE bump, but from what I could see, it wasn’t translating into surf. No one seemed to be in the water and there was no obvious […]

Dee Why looked dull this morning

Hello Friends, High overcast and 7-9 kts of NNE breeze made for a rather dull picture this morning when you correspondent climbed aloft to the crows nest for a scan of the surf situation. Swell settings are pretty much where they were yesterday (ie, a metre of 9-sec east bump at sea). So the short […]

Beautiful but small Sunday morning

Hello Friends, Faint ENE breeze lightly texturing the surface as of 0730. Swell’s a smidgen bigger over yesterday and a touch more south at 103 degrees. Tide was closing in on the 0800 low when I grabbed the pics. It’ll be back to a 1.46 m high at 1415. By then the wind should be […]

Take the mal

Hello Friends, Early was the plan this Saturday. Tide was low at 0700 so the tiny 0.9 m 8-sec east wind bump wasn’t getting swamped. Even so, it was pretty gutless and struggling to get much above the knee high mark. Wind was light from the NNE when I checked conditions at 0620. There weren’t […]

Little waves for the very keen

Hello Friends, Not a cloud in the sky when I climbed aloft to the RealSurf crow’s nest to check the surf for the first time today. As you can see from the snap below, we’re still going sideways with the wave situation. There were a few keen types in the water near Kiddies but waves […]

The Goat’s Surf Forecast

Surf forecast issued Thursday 23 November 2017: Seven day outlook for Sydney: Mother Nature has heard you all cry out: Onshore! again! day after day. But she’s misheard that as: Encore! again!  The wind has drowned you out while she’s conducting her symphony of the elements.   So could you please all speak more distinctly in future. In […]

Another morning of tiny conditions for Dee Why

Hello Friends, Beautiful sunny morning with light WSW breezes but the little east wind bump of the last few days has slipped down another cog. The MHL buoy’s most recent report showed 0.8 m of 7-sec east and as you can see from the pictures, the results where Dee Why is concerned are not impressive. […]