Postcards from Cali: tiny Saturday

Hello Friends,

Visited Ventura yesterday, so came back along the coast this afternoon and grabbed a few snapshots of the non-action. Lovely day though!

Lots of driftwood from winter on the beach at the cove at Rincon

Up and riding on microbump at Rincon

With the right equipment you can ride anything at Rincon

Learner learning at Hobson’s just south of the La Conchita pier which you can see in the background of Rincon videos.

No waves at The Wall a few kms south of Rincon.

Saturday morning and ya got next to nothin’

Hello Friends,

Just had a look at surf conditions in Sydney a little before 0700 and waves are just about not there. From what I could see, ‘surf’ was in the ankle to knee high range at best. The MHL buoy was seeing a metre at 7 seconds from the SSE and wind was coming lightly from the NNW. Tide was high at 0415 and is dropping to low at 1025. Water temp is around 19C.

The swell models continue to show an influx of easterly swell from tomorrow. It could be into the shoulder high range by dusk on Sunday and then dialling up to head to overhead on Monday at magnets. Throw in a call for W-SW wind, and cool but mostly sunny skies through midweek, and I’d say you’re in for some fun!

POSTCARDS FROM CALI

Campus Point too tiny to catch today

Pretty much flat everywhere, but Lowers still has something

Central California’s Steamer Lane, not steaming but if you have a longboard…

Tge Goat’s Surf Forecast

The Goat is in Dorrigo! frolicking around the hills and hasn’t seen the surf for a week after travelling round the bush (very dry west of the Great Divide ) but he’s got his people in Sydney to keep him in touch with what’s happening surfwise…and of course his long range over the horizon binoculars.

Tomorrow looks like it

1. should be a nice day weatherwise

2. could be a nice day for a surf.  Even though it was small today (so I’ve been told,) it looks to me like it could be in the 1-2 metre range tomorrow from East North East.

There’s some Easterly swell on its way which should make for waves all through the week

Sunday 1-2 metre range ENE, sets could have a little power behind them

Monday up a bit around 2ish metres

East

Tuesday1-2 metres ENE

Wednesday 1-2 metre rangeEastish

Thursday and Friday coming up from the East South East could be 2 2+ metres but withsoutherly wind

Water temp is around 19.

Have Fun

TG

Weather from the Bureau

Forecast for the rest of Friday

Summary

Mostly clear.

Chance of any rain: 10% 

Sydney area

Mostly clear. Light winds.

Sun protection not recommended, UV Index predicted to reach 2 [Low]

Saturday 29 June

Summary

Min 10

Max 21

Sunny.

Chance of any rain: 10% 

Sydney area

Sunny. Fog in the morning, mainly in the west. Light winds becoming northerly 15 to 25 km/h in the middle of the day.

Sun protection not recommended, UV Index predicted to reach 2 [Low]

7 day Town Forecasts

Precis Icon	Location	Min	Max
	Sydney	10	21
	Penrith	6	22
	Liverpool	6	21
	Terrey Hills	9	19
	Richmond	4	21
	Parramatta	7	21
	Campbelltown	4	21
	Bondi	12	20

Sunday 30 June

Summary

Min 13

Max 19

Mostly sunny.

Chance of any rain: 10% 

Sydney area

Sunny. Winds northerly 15 to 25 km/h turning west to southwesterly 20 to 30 km/h in the morning.

Sun protection not recommended, UV Index predicted to reach 2 [Low]

Monday 1 July

Summary

Min 7

Max 17

Mostly sunny.

Chance of any rain: 0% 

Sydney area

Mostly sunny. Areas of morning frost in the west. Light winds.

Sun protection not recommended, UV Index predicted to reach 2 [Low]

Tuesday 2 July

Summary

Min 7

Max 18

Mostly sunny.

Chance of any rain: 5% 

Sydney area

Mostly sunny. Light winds.

Wednesday 3 July

Summary

Min 8

Max 19

Possible shower.

Possible rainfall: 0 to 2 mm

Chance of any rain: 40% 

Sydney area

Partly cloudy. Medium (40%) chance of showers. Light winds becoming southeasterly 15 to 20 km/h during the day.

Thursday 4 July

Summary

Min 12

Max 18

Shower or two.

Possible rainfall: 1 to 5 mm

Chance of any rain: 60% 

Sydney area

Cloudy. Medium (60%) chance of showers. Winds southerly 15 to 20 km/h.

Friday 5 July

Summary

Min 12

Max 18

Shower or two.

Possible rainfall: 2 to 5 mm

Chance of any rain: 60% 

Sydney area

Partly cloudy. Medium (60%) chance of showers. Light winds

So very small either side of the pond

Hello Friends,
My S.O. sent me a phone snap from south Steyne this morning on her way to work. It looks very tiny, but she said there were a few people at the Queensie end. Dee Why was flat and according to the Bus Man, up the peninsula was no better.

microness at South Steyne under clearing skies.

Looking at the MHL data for Sydney as of 0700 there was a metre of 7-sec SE bump wafting into the beaches. Tide was running out to the low at around 1100. Wind was coming faintly from NNW as you head to a high of 20C. Ocean’s on 19C according to the fine folk of Beachwatch.

Outlook isn’t too exciting for tomorrow, but by gee next week sure looks good for Sydney on the models. Sadly we’re in full summer mode here in southern California. Santa Barbara is zippo and even up north at Santa Cruz and down south, the waves are really, really tiny most places. There seems to be some slight hope for late next week though…

Have yourself a great day!

Flat at Leadbetter point in Santa Barbara around lunch time tody

From the bus man on his way to the salt mines

Slothful Friday morning surf.

Somewhere between Mona Vale and Newport …….. limpid.

Seawall building activity at Collaroy. Anyone seen a plan for this?

Looked okay at Bungan early

Our loyal busman sent a snap of Bungan this morning, but I was jolting around Santa Cruz island until late this afternoon… so apologies about the tardiness..

Sweet peak from the bus to work this morning…

A few more postcards from Santa Cruz island

Hello Friends,
Looks like Sydney is really messy and not offering much in the way of quality on the wave front today. 10-15 kts of SSE wind can’t be helping matters…

Meanwhile your correspondent spent another day lurching and crawling along the narrow “4-wheel drive in low only” roads of Santa Cruz island as I helped my brother run a couple more drone survey flights – and took time to grab a few snaps to share. Weather here continues heavily overcast and foggy (not unusual this time of year), but we had enough ceiling for the flights.

Surf here at Christy’s (not Christies as earlier stated) ranch beach remained very small and glassy. Nice long south lines though…

Christy’s west end of Santa Cruz island’s south facing coast

Near the east end of Christy’s

Same ridge as other pic, but looking north west

Up on a ridge looking to the east

North facing slopes get most of the moisture from the prevailing wind and in the steeper canyons can be very thick. This is one of the biggest oaks I’ve seen

Cub 2

Cub 1

Pair of Island fox cubs greeted us at one point.

Post cards from the island

Hello Friends,

Looks like Sydney surf conditions are pretty bad today. Southerly wind and showers and junky swell as best I can make out.
So, thought I’d send along a few postcards from Santa Cruz Island off the coast of southern California where I’m currently helping my brother on a research project that involves drone imaging. We’re at the west end of the island, staying in some old ranch buildings from last century. The area we’re in is really only accessible to researchers, so there are no other people around and no signs of human activity beyond the remnants of the old ranch. The landscape looks a lot like it did a couple hundred years ago (but for an abundance of Fennel and other introduced plant species). (I’m using the research facility’s internet link to post this as there’s no phone service out here)
More fieldwork all day again tomorrow, so I may or may not be able to send a few more postcards…
Have a great day and hope you get waves again soon

My brother flying a drone as part of a Santa Cruz island research project

Hey South Australia, there’s another Christies Beach on Santa Cruz island

Santa Cruz Island Kit Fox was almost wiped out, but now the cat size creature is getting re-established after decades of conservation work.

Probably a metre of face on this tiny SW line at the beach near the research station at the old Christie’s ranch on Santa Cruz island.

Short period and windy for the early

Hello Friends,

Sunday morning saw offshore WSW breezes for the early and a 7 second period 2.7m wind swell from the S-SSE. Inshore you’d be lucky to see much above shoulder high faces on sets, but magnets might have the odd bigger one. Lots of showers out to sea as I write this and the wind should be picking up soon. Rain is a certainty according to the Bureau. Beachwatch says the water has slipped down another degree to 19C. Given the high is going to be 16C, I’m guessing a steamer is the plan.

Tomorrow looks like being problematic windwise, but Tuesday, particularly for the early could potentially be more interesting. Wave energy levels look like being maybe a little less than today’s peak, but right now it appears that there should be surfable stuff around the waist high range give or take for the rest of the week.

Here in California things continue along in usual summer fashion. Santa Barbara is flat, but as you head south toward Mexico, the SW groundswell becomes a factor. Once again we had tiny, barely surfable stuff in Ventura, but very fun looking head to head plus at magnets like Trestles down south of LA. Your correspondent may or may not be able to stay in touch over the next 4 days as he’ll  be out on Santa Cruz Island just off the Ventura-Santa Barbara coast. If there’s an internet connection, I’ll try to get a few postcards to you.

Go well with your Sunday!

POSTCARDS FROM CALI

Super tiny at California Street

Bit textured but another day of fun size and rippable waves for ontestants at Lower Trestles

Saturday surf report

Swell is up – about 3-5 metres offshore but as it’s from dead South most of that is going straight by.

Beaches that are open to the South have waves of some sort, say around 2 2+ metreish – while beaches protected from South swell are tiny to small…The swell period is 6.8-9.7 jut under the magic ten required to start getting some refraction around points and into S corners.

But the big factors at the moment is the tide – low was just before 6 so banks are very shallow and dangerous in some places – and the wind chill. While the air temperature is 8, the apparent temp is ZERO to ONE on the coast – it’s blowing right thru you.

There are a few out at some places, but today really it’ll be only the young, the hardy and those with no feelings who’ll be interested.  I told a mate who went in the other day when it was really cold, “you have no feelings.”  His wife said “I’ve been saying that about him for years!”

Wind is currently from the west but is expected to turn SW.  Water temp has dropped to 19.

igh tide will be around 11:50am

Tomorrow the surf should be in the 2-3 metre range at dead South places; some waves should get into protected corners.

For the rest, check in with The Goat.

Rog.