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

Windblown ol’ Sydney town

Hello Friends, Well, that didn’t pan out the way I’d hoped. Last night the wind faded out and there were soft, disorganised but potentially rideable looking lumps and bumps at south exposures. The wind forecasts were saying that maybe there’d be an hour or two around first light when it’d still be calm. Alas, by […]

Southerly bumps on Friday morning

Hello Friends, Grey skies again, but no rain on the radar as Friday kicks off. As of 0700 the North Head weather station was seeing 7-12 kts of SSW wind and out at sea the MHL buoy was detecting 2 metres of 6-sec SSE (144-152°) wind swell. As you can see from the pictures, there […]

The Goat’s Christmas Surf Forecast and Christmas Message

Surf forecast issued Thursday 20 December 2018: Seven day outlook for Sydney: How about that.. Rain, Hail And Shine all in less than an hour … And now dark clouds are coming over again and I hear the rumble of thunder again. I wonder if Mother Nature enjoyed that so much she wants to do […]

Pretty and clean but small

Hello Friends, A beautiful morning along the beaches but the waves are very tiny at Dee Why. I reckon it was around the knee high range at 0625. Tide was coming into a 1.68 m high at 0700. It’ll be back to low at 1330. We’re going to a high of 30 and there’s a […]

Drizzling Dee Why

Hello Friends, Another day of weak and gutless little bumps for Dee Why. I suppose you might be able to bobble along a few metres on the bigger ones, but with 6-9 kts of SSE wind and a steady drizzle under gloomy skies, getting in the water’s not the most appetizing prospect. The Bureau tells […]

Grey morning, tiny waves at Dee Why

Hello Friends, As of 0400 the MHL buoy was seeing 1.3 metres of 7 sec NNE and SSE wind bump and three hours later when I took the pics, Dee Why was struggling to make knee high. There were a few keen types hanging out at Kiddies, but the tiny waves looked pretty weak and […]

Clean but small early

Hello Friends, As of 0650 wind was coming from the NW at 4 kts. It’s due to come up this morning from the N-NE, but it could stay offshore so we might have good surface conditions all morning. There’s a chance it’ll go around to the south late in the day. There were a number […]

Junky and bumpy but not flat

Hello Friends, Another rather murky start to the day at Dee Why. Surf conditions weren’t too imteresting, but if you’re keen, there are junky waist plus bumps to be found. Yesterday’s rain has made water quality dicey from Bungan to Manly according to Beachwatch, so if you have any fresh cuts or scratches, you might […]

Submit a summer surf picture

On ABC radio this morning I invited folks to send in pictures of the waves from up and down the NSW coast. I’m currently working on the nuts and bolts, so for now if you’re super keen, send your pics to RealSurfNSW [at symbol] gmail [dot] com! Don

Foggy, flabby and funky

Helllo Friends, Misty and murky start to the day at Dee Why. There’s a tiny bit of weak waist high east wind bump washing into Dee Why this morning. The wind is set to ramp up soon and to 20-30 kts from the NE by this afternoon. While the waves should come up at the […]