Postcard from Cali (one last time) & waves for Sydney
Hello Friends, Flying day for yours truly. At around 3pm Sydney time my Delta 777 flight will be climbing away from LA as it heads for Oz. Tomorrow morning I’ll be back in the land of warm water, and I hope, a wave or two to clear the jet-lagged brain. It looks as though the […]
Sydney looks interesting from over here…
Hello Friends, Surf prospects this morning look promising for Sydneysiders. The MHL buoy is still down but the Bureau is calling for solid east swell and light winds early. The models are showing it hitting maximum around the middle of the day (when the tide will be low), but it looks as though the pulse […]
Airshow (HMB Jetty)
The waves were small and inconsistent at the Jetty, but I got some fun rides and waited out the lulls watching a fly-by of antique planes headed to Dream Machines at the HMB airport.J-Bird and Jacob, with their buddy Chris (who needed a spot suitable f…
Postcard from Cali & a thought or two about Sunday in Sydney
Hello Friends, MHL buoy for Sydney is off the air, but looking at the other data, I’d be guessing it’s around a couple metres from the east at about 9 seconds. Combine that with the WSW winds showing on the automatic weather station data, and I’d say there’d have to be something in the way […]
Postcard from Cali + Sat in Sydney thoughts
Hello Friends, Hmmm… ESE 2m @ 10sec and light WSW winds at 0630 in Sydney… that’s not a bad combo on paper. But a look at the radar tells another story; a steady supply of showers is streaming in from the SE, so those winds down at the surface aren’t likely to blow in the […]
Rock, Wind, and Water (Dunes & Jetty)
After working 12 straight days, I finally got to take a day off. To beat the wind, I planned to meet Luke, J-Bird and Jacob at the Jetty at 7:30 this morning. The Js were early birds and reported the Jetty was really small – only ankle-high – but Dunes…
Postcard from Cali (& Sydney surf thoughts)
Hello Friends, Seems likely that most Sydney surfers will, like most southern California surfers, be giving it a miss today. The fates are ganging up against northern beaches waterpersons in particular, what with the onshores, rain and the dead whale at Newport potentially luring lots of sharks inshore. The Goat’s call from yesterday is lining […]
Postcard from Cali + Sydney surf thoughts
Hello Friends, Tide’s low a little after 1100 in Sydney and the wind’s supposed to be out of the SE by then. It was showing as NE at North Head when I started tapping this out at a little after 0700 – which is kinda weird since the radar’s showing a steady line of rain […]
Postcard from Cali (+ reflections on Sydney)
Hello Friends, Your humble servant has returned to the world of powerpoints and internet connections after a sojourn in the remote desert of SE California. And what do I see? 2 metres of SE swell showing on the MHL buoy off Sydney, that’s what. Period is ranging from a windswelly 8 seconds to a punchy […]
Postcard from Cali (+ Sydney surf thoughts)
Hello Friends, One of the advantages of being in California is that our daylight hours start 7 hours before Sydney at this time of year. So yours truly can get an extremely leisurely start on looking at forecast stuff whilst still being extra early with the report (it’s 0400 as I start writing). 🙂 I’d […]