Thurs Bumps

Firstly happy birthday to my beautiful girl Nath. Let’s see if she reads these reports like she tells me she does. Secondly the onshore surf continues with 3ft of swell, a touch more East, with a moderate east wind to keep it crappy.  Has been some ok form in the last few onshore days so now your standards are low it can seem ok.

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More junk

Pretty junky with 3-4ft of SE swell and onshore SSE winds.  Uncrowded at least if you want to have a bash. You’ll start to see a lot of rippers practicing in front of the new super structure on the beach before the Aus Open this weekend.  Lets hope Manly turns it on

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Dropped and chopped

At least we got one good day Swell has dropped a notch and the wind is ugly SSE. 4-5ft of choppy stuff so you need to hide in sth corner. Makes me realise I under called it yesterday. Even though I was out I didn’t realise how big it was until I saw a few shots of solid double overhead and more waves. Oh well At least it didn’t wash away the AUS open skatebowl.  They panicked last night and sandbagged it so maybe that will help push back some sand banks in front?  Longshot.

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Southerly Hit

Southerly change just hit at 8am turning bumpy solid 4-5ft into clean waves.  Big grey rain change on the horizon so not sure if it will kill it or not. My guess is you’ll need to shelter in south corners.  As I type it’s empty, clean and pumping but that will change by the time you drive to the beach.  At dawn was bumpy and rippy so I wish I could paddle out now 10 mins ago instead of dawn.

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Clean Sat

Clean waist to shoulder high East swell.  Offshore wind.   Sounds pretty good right by recent standards?  On and there’s almost sun!  It’s a little soft so mal’s dominating but tide is dropping and Sat crowds building.

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Toxic Queensy

Queensy lagoon broke the banks and is pouring out some of “the most polluted water on the East Coast” as quoted by the council website.  So plug your orifices if you want to brave that corner. Super clean (excuse the pun) 2ft or so waves for the rest of the beach with light W offshore grooming things. Wind is forecast to swing around more south.  Low tide 12:30.

“The lagoon is not currently suitable for recreational activities such as swimming, wading, fishing, and boating, due to high levels of faecal pathogens arising from stormwater runoff and sewer pollution.”

http://www.manlylagoon.com.au/conditions-today-and-programs-underway/

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Something coming

Pretty depressing today so whats keeping me positive is the maps for the weekend with some East swell due and hopefully friendly winds.  Today has onshores, drizzle and 2-3ft of south swell. Maybe some protection at the south ends from the SE wind.  I’m just gonna try and be patient

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February Fresh

First day of Feb is a real statement about our summer so far Grey, drizzle, ugly SE onshore and 2-3ft of south crap.  Huey better turn it on for the Aussie Open or we’ll look pretty silly.

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Best in while Kinda

After everyone in Manly was out last night you’d expect a keen crew this morning. Technically great conditions with 2-3ft on ENE swell and warm offshore winds. Form isn’t perfect though but right time, tide and place has some good ones.  Best in a while so get out there before the forecast southerly change hits. 8:53am low tide

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Windy Peaks

3ft+ of new NE windswell peaks  Looks pretty fun actually at the North ends out of the strong NNE onshores with a light Monday morning crew. Low 7:52am

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