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Not much to report this morning at Queenscliff or South Curly.  Low cloud cover and very small surf.  1 foot.  Low tide 7.21am.  Wind very light and variable but from the southern quarters.  According to the BOM rain hanging around the south down near Wollongong (7.30am).  Enjoy your day with a surfing mag or book.

Surf Photos of You

Curly has size but shutdowns aplenty

Stopped by Curly after the soccer. Lots of size, and lots of folks. But after watching for awhile, it became apparent that the swell is not working with the current banks at all well. Very high percentage of one-turn-wonder waves and general shutdowness.

Here’s a snap of a briefly nice looking set wave at the north end…

PICS: Curly Sunday, late morning

Our little SE swell was on the fade and the wind was going around to the south when I rocked up around 1100 with the Canon 5D MkII and 100-400mm. There were plenty of folks in the water despite the fairly ordinary conditions. If you were in the water in the middle part of the beach, have a look through, I might have caught your immortal moves!

Curl Curl Sun 25 July 2010 1100-1130 – Images by Don Norris

PICS: Curl Curl Sun 27 June 2010 (1010-1040)

Sunny winter morning in Sydney with light offshores. I had a spare half hour, so I set up the camera and 650mm just south of mid-Curly and grabbed a few shots. As always my goal was to capture regular surfers at their best moments. Tide was a bit full, but every now and then a section stood up and looked the goods.

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Curl Curl Sun 27 June 2010 (1010-1040) – Images by Don Norris

PICS: Queenscliff, Freshy, South Curly Friday arvo.

When the lighting is as good as it was this afternoon, a photographer finds it very hard to resist getting out and about with a camera. Yours truly went first to Manly on the off chance the touch of east in the swell was letting it get into the north end of the famous stretch. And sure enough, there were clean little offshore sets for the moderate size crew at the Queenscliff end. I shot for about half an hour, so if you happen to have been in the water there between about 1:30 and 2:00 pm, check back on Saturday for the gallery of shots I came back with.

Queenscliff 11 June 2010 (pm) – Images by Don Norris

Next stop on my afternoon shooting expedition was Freshy. As usual the numbers weren’t on the same scale as Manly, but there was a healthy crew enjoying the unnaturally warm water and sunny offshore afternoon. Sets were a touch bigger too. Quality was similar to Manly as well. I shot from about 2:25 to 2:45 pm before deciding to head around the corner to see what was happening at Curly.

Freshwater 11 June 2010 (pm) – Images by Don Norris

There was a sizable crew on the chest to head high plus offshore waves at south Curly. Looked like people were having fun, despite the somewhat variable quality of the peaks. It looks as though there’s some deep water between the outside peaks and the beach because many waves started out looking good before they kind of fatted out on the inside.  I set up just to the north of the main peak and took pictures from about 3:00 to 3:30 pm.

South Curl Curl 11 June 2010 (pm) – Images by Don Norris

PICS: Curly 25 May 2010, Tue morning

Something at Curly… but…

Curly

Went for a splash at Curly this morning. Long wait between the sets it has to be said. And the wind was steady enough to push you off the peak if you weren’t paying attention. Biggest waves were getting into the shoulder high range, but for the most part it was smaller than that. The breeze was kinda chilly, although the water was still warm.

Beautiful morning to be in amongst it and quite amazingly, the crowd was comparatively light. After dropping quite a bit overnight, the MHL trace shows the swell has inched up to 1.5 metres on average at about 9 seconds apart. It’s pretty much dead south though, so I think it’ll be missing a fair number of places.

Hope you’re having a fine day!

120 Pics: Sat morning at Curly

Curl Curl was a popular spot on Saturday morning the 10th of April. I got over 120 shots of dozens of different surfers, so check it out if you were there – maybe I got you too! As always my goal was to take shots that make regular folks look good.

And, if you don’t see any of yourself in my lot, be sure to check out wozthatyou’s piccies. It seems we both liked the look of Curly today (although I didn’t see him while I was working the length of the beach).

Curl Curl Sat. 10 April 2010 (am) – Images by Don Norris
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Curly This Morning – 10/04/10

Good to finally get out and snap a few after a long absence. Can’t believe I haven’t posted anything in over a month! Anyway we’re into autumn now which usually means more swell and with it more the potential for more shots.

Nice morning for it at Curly. There were the odd bomb sets making their way in but for the most part the juice was already squeezed out of the swell prior to arrival so it was basically sizeable but soft with closeouts a common experience on most of the bigger sets. However, this didn’t dampen anyone’s spirits as there were quite a few out enjoying the conditions.

Hope you were one of them.

Cheers,

Doug

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