Hello Friends,

Went out for a look around this afternoon, but didn’t see anything to tempt me into the water. However, I got a few pictures to share.

First stop was Mona Vale where I thought I might see if anything was happening at the basin. My hunch was right and there were a few bodyboarders risking life and limb taking off in the shories. Nothing there for us standups. And it really wasn’t all that consistent. Fairly long waits for ones worth taking off on. Still, managed to get a shot of a guy pulling into an ugly one…

Whizzed back south past a completely messy and basically unsurfable Warriewood. Had a look at Northy and down toward Gardens. Not many people out at the former, but there was a good reason. It was really soft and fluffy and weak, despite the okay size. One or two people managed to jag okay sets, but for every one of those there were three really ordinary gutless lumps caught. And as at the Basin, it wasn’t that consistent. The picture below makes it look way better than it was…

From there I headed on to have a look at the old Collaroy. Sadly it was so dire that so far as I could tell, no one was in the water. More weak, scudding messiness basically.

My final stop was at Longy where I spotted a few folks messing about in the beachy inside from the bombies. Quality was on a par with Northy, so nothing much to write home about. Again, if you were in the right spot and got lucky, you could get a bit of a section, but the waits were plentiful. From the look of the beach, there must be a fair number of bluebottles about too…

I didn’t drive down to look at Dee Why, but through the telephoto it looked as though there was a small crowd catching the odd makeable one…

Latest from the Bureau
Thr tides: L @0700, H @1300
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Wednesday until midnight: Wind: E/SE 15/20 knots reaching 20/25 knots offshore tending NE in the afternoon.Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres. Swell: E/SE 2 to 3 metres.
Thursday: Wind: E/NE 10/15 knots freshening to NE 15/20 knots later in the afternoon and evening.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: E’ly 2 to 3 metres.
Friday: Wind: N/NE 10/20 knots.

Hello Friends,

Turned up at the beach around 0630 for a surf with a few mates. Contemplation of the conditions immediately resulted in a decision – to get coffee. 15-20 kts of ESE wind overnight turned the ocean into a choppy mess. The average period is only about 7 seconds, so you have to time it just right to get a steep enough face for a take off. If the ocean was audio, it’d be pink noise.

After getting the coffee on board and sorting out the big questions of the day with the boys, it was time to head off northward for a quick squizz on your behalf. As the pictures show, the situation was only very slightly better at Northy and Mona Vale. The former looked like an awful lot of paddling for some pretty marginal payoffs. The pic is pretty typical of the sets. At Mona it looked to be less consistent but otherwise similar to the situation down south.

The forecast models remain quite hopeful where swell size is concerned. The current reckoning is for the average heights at sea to bump up a bit toward dark tomorrow and then to power up with a 10 sec plus period that night. Come Thursday morning spots that like an east swell could be firing along pretty nicely. The big question is what the wind’ll be doing. Right now the Bureau’s calling for E-NE, so I guess we can hope that it’ll be comparatively light in the morning…

On the latest run of the models, it appears that Thr-Fri will be the peak, but there should still be something fun left over for the weekend warriors.

Go well with your day!

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Tuesday until midnight: Wind: E/SE 15/20 knots reaching 20/25 knots at times. Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres. Swell: E 1.5 to 2 metres increasing.
Wednesday: Wind: E’ly 15/20 knots reaching 20/25 knots at times offshore. Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres. Swell: E/SE 2 to 2.5 metres decreasing.
Thursday: Wind: E/NE 10/20 knots.