Mid-afternoon pics from Dee Why
Just spent an hour or so at the beach checking the rising swell. Lotsa people in the water and the wind blowing pretty stiffly offshore. Banks along the beach were 99% unmakeable shutdowns. Point was rather soft and inconsistent. Sets on the beach per the pictures in terms of size, at the point smaller, but […]
Flat early but later should be interesting
Hello Friends, Unsurfably tiny along the beaches at daybreak Saturday. I grabbed a few snaps between showers to document the flatness. However, as the MHL buoy shot below reveals, the swell should come up dramatically later today. As Saturday kicked off the wind was 15-20 kts from the west. It should pick up and swing […]
Cold and flat at Dee Why under sunny skies
Hello Friends, No sign of surf this morning at Dee Why. There was a cold NW wind sweeping across a flat sea. The MHL buoy was showing a touch under a metre of 10-sec south swell out at sea as of 0600, so maybe a magnet south swell spot might possibly be showing something. Not […]
The Goat’s Surf Forecast
Surf forecast issued Thursday 10 May 2018: Seven day outlook for Sydney: People at the beach are telling me: “It’s gonna be huge here tomorrow…6 or 7 metres” Apparently that’s what other sources are saying …. When I hear that all over the place, I’m reminded of the 1964 song “Suspicion…” that I coincidentally heard […]
Snaps from Curly
Swell hitting south Curly more than Manly or Dee Why
Clean and shoulder plus on sets but wind is coming
Hello Friends, Smooth conditions as the day got started and 1.2 m of 15-sec of SE (137°) swell. Sets at the point looked to be shoulder to head plus when I checked at 0700. Up the beach toward No Mans the size is similar, but the long lines will be testing the not-very-peaky banks. As […]
Mostly near flat but…
Hello Friends, Made the Manly run this morning and grabbed a few snaps on the way home. As you can see there are rideable sets. I’d call the biggest ones at Manly and Curly waist to chest but at Dee Why I saw at least one set that was near shoulder. The harsh reality is […]
Very tiny conditions this morning
Hello Friends, Looking unsurfable at Dee Why as of 0700 this morning. Interestingly though the MHL is showing a metre of 15-sec east swell as of 0600. So, maybe… there just might be some fun knee to waist high bumps on the right tide at the right spot. Speaking of which the low is a […]
Another day of tiny conditions
Hello Friends, “Below 1 metre” echoes across the next three days in the Bureau’s forecast. There were a couple of people in the water at the Dee Why but I didn’t see anything come through for them while waiting to take the pics at around 0715. The MHL data from 0500 was showing 0.85 m […]
Just about flat on Sunday morning
Hello Friends, From Sydney south to the border it looks to be near flat. Dee Why was showing ankle to knee high bumps this morning as the tide was coming back in to a 1.25 m high at 1250. Should be sunny and mild all day with light and variable winds from the north to […]