Crazy conditions at Pro Junior
On a day when almost all surf beaches on the NSW mid north coast were closed and completely out of bounds, the ASP Billabong Pro Junior was all go in solid stormy 6 to 8ft surf at One Mile Point near Port Stephens. Surfers had to call on all their ocean skills to deal with […]
Grey & just about flat
Hello Friends, Ocean looks pretty tiny this morning. A good day to be doing other stuff if you want my opinion. Mind you this comes from someone who is currently beset by a plague of flu devils, so you may want to take that into account. The numbers are not quite as woeful as yesterday, […]
Lovely this morning
Hello Friends, Something seems to be amiss with our daily picture gallery. Sigh. Of course I’m chasing it down. (click to see pic in this report) But here’s the important news: it is a glorious morning in Sydney and we still have some waves to play with. Not as big as yesterday, but you can […]
Vale Bud Browne 1912-2008
Legendary surf movie pioneer Bud “Barracuda” Browne has died at age 96 in San Luis Obispo, California. Bob Browne first pointed a movie camera at waves in the around 1940 while he was working as a lifeguard at Venice Beach in Los Angeles county, California. After WWII, Browne began making annual treks to Hawaii with […]
The new design: week one
Not sure how many folks will be interested in my ruminations on the new design… The first four days of the new design were plagued by server issues. We were grossly underpowered and as a consequence everybody had trouble getting to the site. We crashed the server a couple times and on Weds, the ISP […]
Close of play wrap
Hello Friends, What a day for yours truly. That’s three days in a row sweating over how the site is working… we seem to have recovered everything and it seems to be doing what it’s supposed to be. At around 4, with the site largely restored, I decided to duck out for a quick look […]
woo-hoo! we’re back!
Call me excited! We’re back on air and going like the proverbial cut cat too. All thanks to Ross who somehow managed to keep things under control at his work while transferring, re-jigging, setting up and generally making good our site. I’ve just been out shooting a few pics of the fading swell. I’ll post […]
Clouds gather, but waves again
Hello Friends, Will we break the server again this morning… I’m on tenter hooks… As anticipated, the swell peaked overnight. It’s still dead south and the MHL data is now showing average size of 3 metres at 11 sec, with some peak component of 15 sec and sea + swell heights of 5 metres. So, […]
Late arvo update
Hello Friends, When I ran out of things I could do to get the site working again this arvo, I took the only reasonable action under the circumstances – I went for a wave! And when I get back, ‘lo, things seem to have stabilised again. I decided against joining the 50 or so bods […]
The New RealSurf – at last!!!
Hello Friends, I can hardly believe it. We’ve finally launched the new version of RealSurf! What a saga it’s been too. Huge thanks goes out to Ross for his decade long committment to doing the tech stuff on the site. He’s guided us through innumerable upgrades, stayed up late to help me fix some bonehead […]