Looking mighty fine
Hello Friends, Time to go surfing. I’m calling it 6-8/10 at spots that are liking the 2 metres of 10 sec east swell. Glassy and breaking hard from south of Mactier St to Northy. Nice from Dee Why Centre to No Man’s and beyond. I’m going for a closer look asap the bureau sez Sunday […]
Grey skies, nothing but grey skies do I see
Hello Friends, That muffled thump you heard overnight was Huey falling into a stupor. He started looking under the weather at around lunchtime yesterday when the average period of our little ESE windswell started to drop from a barely adequate 8 seconds. Overnight the power setting has slipped down to 6 seconds. And just to […]
Out & about: Sth Narra, Dee Why, Curly
Went for a little wander to check out the conditions. The dominant feature at 0900 was the chop. The SSE wind was chewing up pretty much everywhere I looked. Far South Narra was probably the least affected, but the waves were weak and around waist high at best. Dee Why was lumpy and junky looking, […]
That was fun, a little left though.
Hello Friends, Out and about with the mobile RealSurf set up. First stop was Edgecliff Blvd for a squiz at the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch. No one in at Collaroy really, but as you get up to about Marquesas, there were quite a few contending for the little sets. My strong impression overall is that we’re in […]
Warriewood to Dee Why
Hello Friends, No good news on the surf quality front between Warriewood and Dee Why. The swell is still going, but so’s the wind and therefore the chop and general junkiness. I didn’t spy anyone in the water from Mona Vale to Collaroy. Warriewood, although somewhat protected from the wind, is just junky and uninteresting. […]
1700: a few Collaroy pics
Hi all, Out on an errand… had the camera with and was curious to see if the wind change from ESE to more SE was making Collaroy look any more interesting. I’d say it’d definitely cleaned up compared to lunchtime. The main break was still pretty soft and flabby, but down toward the stormwater pipe […]
Mid-arvo update: Bower & Collaroy
Hello Friends, (Buncha extra pics in this post) Not many choices around this afternoon. 20-25kts of SSE wind is doing over the 8sec, 3 metre ese swell. I spent a couple hours waiting for picture opportunities at the Bower this morning. Long wait between the good ones, and at that stage the wind was tearing […]
Late arvo wrap
… Hello Friends, Drove up to Umina to visit some rels staying at the actually quite impressive Ocean Beach caravan park. Figured I might as well use the opportunity to grab a snap of the fabled Box Head while I was there. It was utterly awful though. Close together, messy, totally wind whipped junk really. […]
Late arvo update: pretty ordinary again
Hello Friends, Got out and about between about 1600-1700 to see if I could grab a few snaps for the Saturday evening visitors. Conditions, as you can see, are still pretty ghastly. But that hasn’t put folks off. About the most intense looking wave I saw was the one above. It was grinding into a […]
Pull the doona up
Hello Friends, I’d stay in bed if you’re up early! 20 knots of ESE wind making a complete hash of the ocean for us this morning in Sydney. I very much doubt that there is anywhere out of the wind that also has waves. Swell at sea is around the 2.5 metre mark. It’s coming […]