Monday evening at Crescent Head
It’s been a long time since I made a solo surf trip, but when I saw the swell models for the next couple of days, I decided to make the run to Crescent just in case. It’s the first long trip I’ve made in the Tesla too. Turns out finding a charge along the way […]
Small to near flat depending on where you look
Hello Friends, Really tiny at Dee Why and pretty small, but a bit bigger at Surfrider Gardens this morning. Dee Why was in the ankle to knee high range, while from Surfrider Gardens to Northy it’s knee to maybe waist. Wind was coming lightly from the NNE as of 0800. Swell at sea was 0.85 […]
Just barely there
Hello Friends, It’s been NNE since 0300 and by 0800 it was 7-11 kts. Surface conditions were just beginning to show some texture, which would have been okay if there was more swell energy. It was coming from the east and a touch over a metre out at sea, but the period was just 5 […]
Weak and puny Thursday morning
Hello Friends, Had hoped it might be similar to yesterday this morning, but as the pics show, it’s not. A 7-11 kt ENE wind was texturing it up by 0800 and the 1.1 metre 9-sec east wind bump was struggling to deliver waist high faces on the sets at better exposures. On top of that, […]
Junky but chest to shoulder high
Hello Friends, Wind was lightly ENE this morning, as it had been all night. That meant rather lumpy and disorganised surface conditions. However there was some size at better exposures thanks to the 1.4 metre, 11-second east swell. Next tide is the low at 0815 and the high will be along at 1420. Wind isn’t […]
Fun for the early
Hello Friends, Almost a carbon copy of yesterday. Wind was light SW and there were waist to maybe chest high sets from Surfrider Gardens to Northy and from about the Pole to Kiddies at Dee Why. Once again the waits were longish and not many of the waves were makeable for any distance. But skies […]
Thumping swell for Monday morning
Hello Friends, Slept with the windows open last night and knew it would be solid this morning because of the steady rumble from nearly a kilometre away. Sure enough, when I checked the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch, the lines were long and big. But surfable? Well, sort of. It was too hazy to make out Northy, but […]
Scrappy summer surf for Saturday
Hello Friends, As the picture above shows, at around 0630 Surfrider Gardens wasn’t looking quite as interesting as yesterday. But it was still better than the paltry offerings along the Dee Why to Longy stretch. The wind blew all night from the NNE and at daybreak it was already 11-17 kts, so the better exposures […]
Glassy little peaks everywhere
Hello Friends, Light offshore breeze to open proceedings this Thursday. And, as the pictures show, there were knee to waist-ish waves all over the place. You’ll do a bit of sitting around (so what else is new?) and they’re more soft than not, but you’ll definitely jag yourself a few. Onshores should come up this […]
Still messy under grey skies
Hello Friends, Wednesday morning saw comparatively smooth, but very lumpy conditions in the south corners. Dee Why point was hosting a small crew who looked to be getting mostly waist high waves with the occasional shoulder-ish set. Nobody was surfing very far up the beach, but there were a few out in front of the […]