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Watching the comp at Manly

Hello Friends, Just stopped by the Surfrider stand at the Vissla comp in Manly this morning and grabbed a few snaps to share. It was clean but full early and now (1000) tide is dropping but summer is finishing up with a sunny day and plenty of NE wind. Sets down this way are pushing […]

Wave energy evident Tuesday morning

  Hello Friends, We’re set to have 15-20 kts of southerly later, but as of 0730, wind was out of the westerly quarters. As you can see from the pics though, the ocean is choppy and messy looking, but there’s definitely some energy in the mix. Set waves at the point looked to be in […]

Bleak old Monday in the rain

  Hello Friends, Bit of a late one today, but when I saw the beach, it was obvious there was no need to get the report out quickly. The much needed rain was falling lightly but steadily and as you can see from the pics, there was only minimal swell energy. Wind is south to […]

Waiting for the rain

Hello Friends, The SSE wind was just ruffling the surface at 0750 when I climbed aloft to the RealSurf crows nest for a look at the conditions. There was only a faint hint of swell and hardly anyone in the water on a gloomy Sunday morning. According to the MHL data, at 0500 there was […]

Waves for the morning sesh

Hello Friends, Light north breeze blowing this morning when I checked it for the first time around 0630. Skies were largely clear and waves looked to be smaller than yesterday. The MHL buoy was showing 1.7 m from the east at 10 seconds as of 0500, so there were still some head high wave faces […]

Messy but sizable

A few postcards from torn up but biggish Manly for you. Low tide plus light but steady ne wind was making for treacherous conditions. Lots of one turn wonder waves and unmakeable chaotic shutdowns. The crowd was undeterred.

TG’s Surf Forecast

Surf forecast issued Thursday 22 February 2018: Seven day outlook for Sydney: How about that pop up surf today!?   Smaller yesterday than it’s been, and this morning… wave height was 1-1.3 metres SE, and then… by 6pm offshore it was clicking 3 -5.7 metres SE! My neighbour said around 2 pm ‘it’s too big for […]

A little smaller but still a few waves around this morning

Hello Friends, Swell’s cogged down a notch overnight. As of 0400 it was 1.7 m at 10 sec from 156 degrees. At 0720 wind was 3 kts out of the WNW at North Head. Tide was low at 0740 and will be back to a 1.4 m high at 1340. There was a small crowd […]

A few lumpy bumps around this morning

Hello Friends, Waves were in the waist to chest high range at the point and along the Dee Why end of the beach this morning at around 0715. Surface conditions were sort of choppy and lumpy but wind was light westerly for the early but it should gradually swing around to the east-SE but not […]