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Grey, southerly and tiny for Sunday morning

Hello Friends, By 0800 when I took the pictures, the southerly was belting along 15-20 kts under gloomy but at least not smoky skies. As of 0500 the MHL buoy was bouncing around in 7 second 2.6 m SSE swell. But as you can see, there wasn’t much of a line evident at the point […]

Weak, tiny, smoky, breezy but not flat

Hello Friends, Grey, hazy and a strong smell of burnt bush this morning along the beaches. As the pictures show, there were some weak knee to waist high waves at magnet exposures such as Long Reef and North Narrabeen. Ocean was lightly textured by the rising NNE wind. Out at sea as of 0400, the […]

The Goat’s Christmas Surf Forecast and Message

The Goat’s Christmas Surf Forecast and Message Surf forecast issued Friday 20 December 2019: Seven day outlook for Sydney: Hey hey only five more sleeps to Christmas Day. Which is one reason the forecast is a day late… Santa needs his little/ big helpers.. The other is, I’ve been having Fun!! First then the surf […]

Back to micro for Friday morning

Hello Friends, Smoke haze wasn’t too bad early but the surf situation’s another thing… a near flat thing in fact. The south wind was around 10 kts, so, at the picture shows, the surface was textured. At 0400 the MHL buoy was seeing 1.3 metres from the SSE, but the period was just 6 seconds. […]

Smoke and hottest day of the year

Hello Friends, The Bureau says we’re going to see 41C in Sydney ahead of an afternoon south change. As the pictures show, the atmosphere was dense with smoke haze and unsurprisingly, the Bureau is carrying a POOR air quality alert from the DPIE.  Speaking of which, so far as I can tell, there are no […]

Smooth small swell

Hello Friends, Knee to waist high along the Dee Why stretch this morning with clean, smooth surface conditions, light wind at 0730, sunny skies and a faint breeze from the north that should go NE by late morning. At 0500 the MHL buoy was seeing 1.2 metres from the SSE at 10 seconds apart. Tide […]

Smooth little waves on offer this morning

Hello Friends, A light SW breeze under sunny and only slightly hazy skies as Tuesday got started. And there were little knee to waist high waves at Dee Why point. You should be able to find a bit bigger stuff around at Curly or other places better tuned to the current swell direction. The MHL […]

Blustery southerly, smoke haze and no waves

Hello Friends, No waves at Dee Why this morning. Wind was straight south 15-25 kts as of 0730. Skies were partly cloudy with the odd sunny break and smoke haze reducing visibility to around 10 km. As the picture shows, it may have been 2 metres from the SSE out at sea, but the 6 […]

Not Dee Why, but maybe Longy or Curly

Hello Friends, 24C before 0900 and 70% humidity under high overcast skies this morning. Wind wasn’t a factor and out at sea the MHL buoy was registering a metre at 8 seconds from 172° (ie close to dead south). As the pictures indicate, there was next to no wave activity at the Dee Why end […]

Very small but not flat Saturday morning

Hello Friends, Light wind, an incoming tide and weak, small, but catchable waves (with the right equipment) on offer this morning. As the pictures show, size is in the knee to thigh high range. It’s not super consistent, but given the 9 second period of the 1 metre south swell, you don’t have to wait […]