Scrappy surf for Election Day morning
Hello Friends, Well, at least it wasn’t raining as the morning kicked off along the beaches on Election Day 2022. As you can see from the pictures, surf conditions were pretty ho-hum. It’s definitely rideable but it looked like the waits were long and the quality was not great even on the better ones. Early […]
Glassy and chilly
Hello Friends, Surface conditions were smooth and clean thanks to an early west breeze. The 12-second, 2-3 metre south swell was going past places like Manly but getting into Curly and Dee Why where this morning’s pictures were taken. Set wave faces at magnets were around the head high mark or even a touch bigger. […]
Scrappy lumps for the keen
Hello Friends, The good news is that if you’re keen, you could get a wave despite the 10-15 kts of ESE wind. A 1.8 metre, 9-second SSE wind swell was delivering soft and floppy knee to waist-plus high lumps at magnets. It looked to be a bit of a wait though. Tide was dropping to […]
Glassy and head high at magnets
Hello Friends, Showery morning with light SW wind as Monday kicked off. As the pictures show, we also have waves into the shoulder to head-high range at the best exposures. Swell at sea was 2 metres at 11 seconds from the SSE (162°). Water’s clean and a freakish 24C – 4C above today’s predicted high. […]
Smooth, full and infrequent to start
Hello Friends, Nice morning along the beaches and there are still a few little waves at the east magnets. Swell at sea was 1.2 metres at 9-10 seconds from the east. The biggest sets were into the chest plus range, but you had to be in the optimal spot and some places, such as Dee […]
Clean and punchy at the right spots this morning
Hello Friends, That turned out well for early risers. Offshore wind all night had groomed the 2 metre 11-second ESE swell nicely. I rode the eBike down to Narrabeen to wave signs for Independent Mackellar candidate Sophie Scamp – along with 40 other volunteers during rush hour. A good vibe and lots of positive responses […]
Sun peeping through this morning but ocean a mess
Hello Friends, It’s a pass this morning. After days of onshores, this morning saw light ENE wind and a very junky 2.5 metre, 8-second east swell, with murky looking water. I didn’t see anyone in the water along the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch nor at Dee Why to Longy. Yesterday Beachwatch was warning that pollution was likely […]
Heavy showers and wind
Hello Friends, A good day to stay inside and, ideally, off the roads. At 0900 it was raining heavily across most of Sydney and along the coast the wind was east at 16-26 kts. It was trashing a 2.8 m 8-sec SE wind swell. The water looked really bad too. At Queenscliff it was blackish […]
Weak, tiny and rainy on Tuesday morning
Hello Friends, The rain gauge at RealSurf HQ registered 49mm of percipitation since midnight, so it’s no surprise that Beachwatch is warning that pollution is likely from Newport to North Steyne. But, as the pictures show, you’re not missing anything too exciting at the beach this morning. The buoy data was showing 1.7 m of […]
Southerly Wednesday morning
Hello Friends, It looks as though if you weren’t in the water before 0730, you missed the hour or so of light offshores. The southerly’s with us now, and by the time I took the pictures at Dee Why around 0900, it had deteriorated quite a bit. Conditions were better along the mid to southern […]