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

Pics from Dee Why beach and Curly Sunday morning

Lots of swell and lots of people in the water on Sunday, so I went shooting in the morning. Herewith links to a couple of galleries… 89 pictures from Dee Why beach. Started shooting at 0955 went until 1005 (have more shots, but they’re not uploaded yet) Clicking here takes you to the gallery 120 […]

Video: beautiful wood boards!

I came across this story about Maine, USA wood board builders on Bloomberg of all places… when I grow up, I want a real wood board!

Surf picture gallery from North Steyne Weds 6 Dec 17

Skies may have been cloudy, so the colour wasn’t too interesting, but the waves were pumping for the early session at Manly beach’s North Steyne on Wednesday morning. Here are a few samples… To see all 300+ images from Wednesday morning click here.   See all 300+ pictures taken at North Steyne

Ocean Care Day at Manly

Rode me bike from Collaroy Plateau to Manly and took the beach route via Curly. Tide was way too high so the soft chest plus wind swell was gutless in the extreme. Tide dropping should help plus wind still mellow at noon. South Curl Curl late morning… Later at Manly as tide dropped the south […]

Hang ten (decades): Walter Munk, inventor of the surf forecast, turns 100

By Shalom Jacobovitz (SJ1_8558) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

  Like big waves? Thanks to surf forecasting, you’ll know when and where to find them. Shalom Jacobovitz/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Paul Spence, UNSW and Shane Keating, UNSW As dawn washes over Bondi Beach, you can see the surfers beyond the break, gently rising and falling on their boards. They gather like this when the […]

PICS: Sunday 08/10/17 Curl Curl

Stopped by Curl Curl Sunday around 0830 and stayed for an hour to shoot people catching some fun looking waves along the middle part of the beach. You can see the whole 246-picture gallery here.