Hello Friends,

Could be worth the effort to get yourself to a south swell spot this morning in Sydney as we still have some SSE energy around the place. There are light winds from the SW on tap this morning and the forecast is for it to drop off toward low tide at lunch time.

Swell at sea is just below the 2 metre mark with an average period of close to 10 seconds.

The latest run of the models suggests that we’ll have similar conditions over the next three days.

Enjoy!

TIDE: H @0630 L 1200
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Sunday until midnight: Wind: Southwesterly 5 to 10 knots becoming light around midday then tending north to northeasterly up to 10 knots during the afternoon.Sea: Below 1 metre.Swell: Southerly about 2 metres.
Monday: Wind: North to northwesterly 5 to 10 knots tending north to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots during the afternoon.Sea: Below 1 metre.Swell: Southeasterly 1.5 metres.
Tuesday: Wind: Northerly 5 to 10 knots increasing to up to 30 knots during the morning then decreasing to about 15 knots during the evening.

couple of young RealSurf fans

Hello evening visitors!

Finally have added a new surf spot to the life list – Elouera. PB and I made a jaunt down to the lovely shire to see what was doing. He’s been down there a bit lately so was able to give me the tour. We checked Elouera and the Wall first. Little SE swell of maybe 1.5m at around 8-9 seconds apart was coming in and the wind was light offshore. Plus it was sunny and comparatively mild. Not super crowded either. In fact, you’d have to say it was uncrowded by Sydney standards. Went down to look at Cronulla point, Shark Island and Sandshoes too, but ended up returning to the long waist to chest high lines of Elouera. Later when we got out we talked to a guy who lives just around the corner from the beach who assured us we’d just got very lucky. I’ll take it! Thanks Huey.

A quick look at the charts tonight makes me think that tomorrow will probably smaller again that at close of play today. From the current run of the WAMs, it seems that we’re in for declining conditions across the next couple days, before the possible return of surfable south swell energy sometime late Friday. It’s not too bad an outlook overall with the models suggesting something more or less across the next 7 days in the Sydney region. Hope Huey doesn’t change his mind!

Go well and catchya again tomorrow.

After holding off until around 1300, the southerly started to fill in along Sydney’s beaches. As the day ends, the swell is still around the two metre mark at sea with an average period of 9 seconds. It’s SE and we’re getting some okay size sets every now and then thanks to some rogue 11 second period stuff. According to the Bureau the energy should stick around overnight and with luck tomorrow will be something of a repeat of today with light winds for the early and a couple metres of 8-9 sec S-SE swell.

I got in the water at the point this morning and as a consequence will have some water snaps to post as a gallery later. Set waves were kinda fun, but we had to wait around a bit and there was a pretty fair crowd on it. I put this down to the fact that Dee Why was probably about the only reasonable wave from Manly to Mona Vale. Anyway, after I got out I did a bit more shooting with a Canon 5D MkII and the 100-400mm lens that I have on test at the moment. A real nice bit of kit, but then it’d want to be for the $5k price tag. When I get the pic files all processed, I’ll load them to a gallery.

Hope you’ve had a great week and are looking forward to a top old weekend!

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Friday until midnight: Wind: Southerly 10 to 20 knots, decreasing to 10 to 15 knots later.Sea: Up to 1.5 metres.Swell: Southeasterly 2 metres.
Saturday: Wind: Southerly 10 to 15 knots tending south to southwesterly up to 10 knots during the morning then tending south to southeasterly by early evening.Sea: Below 1 metre.Swell: Southeasterly about 2 metres.
Sunday: Wind: West to southwesterly 5 to 10 knots becoming southwesterly 10 to 15 knots later in the evening.
Monday: Wind: South to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending west to southwesterly up to 10 knots during the afternoon then tending west to northwesterly during the evening.

Hello Friends,

7 degrees at 0800 said the radio. Add in a steady westerly and it feels even colder. The bitter conditions haven’t put people off getting in the water at Dee Why point. Those tough customers are scoring the odd fun if not too powerful looking set waves for their trouble.

Swell at sea has jumped up to 3 metres. It still coming from the south and the average period is around the 8 second mark. According to the MHL data, the Sydney region seems to be getting the best of the available energy. With luck the models will be right and the swell will push up a touch more through tomorrow. But it looks like the wind is set to be southerly with it, so that in itself will limit the number of options.

The latest long range outlook is showing a gradual decline toward small to flat for the Sydney region as we head into next week. That pesky high over the continent is sitting down pretty low and it’s deflecting the southern ocean swell makers away from the east coast’s swell window. Worse, it looks as though the high is going to move over the lower Tasman sea in the next few days. Not a good thing for our prospects over the next 7-10 days sadly. Hope I’m wrong…

Go well with your day!

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Thursday until midnight: Wind: Southerly 20 to 25 knots.Sea: 2 metres.Swell: Southerly 2 metres.
Friday: Wind: Southerly 10 to 20 knots decreasing to 10 to 15 knots around dawn then increasing to 10 to 20 knots during the morning. Winds 10 to 15 knots around midday.Sea: Up to 1.5 metres.Swell: Southeasterly 2 to 3 metres.
Saturday: Wind: South to southeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending east to southeasterly up to 10 knots during the evening.

Hello Friends,

Well, how ’bout them apples? The hoped for extra second of swell energy has made it to Sydney along with a slight tweak to the SE in the primary direction, all of which adds up to a re-calibration from marginal to average. Bet the school kids will be stoked…

Hello Friends,
Running a bit late this morning, apologies. S-SSW winds are staying clear of Dee Why this morning and the gradually fading south to SSE swell is hanging in there at around the two metre mark with an average period of about 8 seconds. There seems to be some longer period stuff in the mix though because the waist high conditions are punctuated from time to time with something more like shoulder high.

Wind is set to go more SE as the day goes along, but it’s also supposed to back off as well. We have a late morning low tide, so I reckon the best time to go will be before lunch if you can.

The outlook is for the swell to drop overnight but with luck to still be in the surfable range for tomorrow. But after that things currently look distinctly ordinary through the middle of next week. The WAMs show us bumping along in a state of flatness from about Saturday to Weds – at least. If you’re on the east coast and want waves next week, the nearest sizable ones look like being in Western Vic!

Ah well, enjoy what we have and hope for Huey’s beneficence later next week…

TIDES: L @1040, H @1720
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Thursday until midnight: Wind: South to southeasterly 15 to 20 knots decreasing to 10 to 15 knots during the evening.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres.Swell: Southeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Friday: Wind: South to southwesterly 10 to 15 knots tending south to southeasterly during the afternoon.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres.Swell: Southeasterly about 1 metre.
Saturday: Wind: East to northeasterly 10 to 15 knots tending north to northeasterly 15 to 20 knots during the afternoon.

Hello Friends,
Period has crept up a bit to 9 seconds and the swell is more SE but still at around the 1.5 metre mark. There are more people in the water now than earlier, but not dramatically so. Wind is still pretty light as well and I’d expect more than a few spots to now be offering options of interest….

earlier I wrote:

Quite foggy between the RealSurf crows nest and the beach this morning, so it wasn’t until I opened the picture in Photoshop (testing out the very latest version atm) that I could even see people were in the water. Anyway, Shari who was out for a constitutional, confirmed not only that it was in the waist high range, but that it was glassy and really fun looking. In fact, I’m pretty sure I saw Kevin Rudd getting in a quick wave before some kind of big deal meeting later this morning. Julia Gillard was taking off deeper than him though…

According to the latest from the MHL buoy, swell is primarily from the east and at almost exactly the same size as yesterday. However, the average period has bumped up from around 7 seconds yesterday to a bit better than 8 now. There’s some 10 second stuff in the mix as well.

The models are lining up with the Bureau on the prospects for tomorrow. At this stage – according to the aforesaid models – it looks as though Friday could be the peak opportunity for a wave across the coming week. One of the long range predictions shows an influx of winter grade south swell for the southern half of NSW late next week. However, as we model watchers know, the guesstimates for 7 days hence have a way of changing from “it’s gonna be big” to “there might be something surfable” as we close in on the date. So, “cautiously hopeful” is where I’m putting it at this point…

Go well with your day!

Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Thursday until midnight: Wind: Variable 5 to 10 knots inshore early, otherwise east to northeasterly 5 to 10 knots, reaching 15 knots in the afternoon at times.Sea: to 1 metre.Swell: East to southeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres.
Friday: Wind: Northeasterly to northwesterly 10 to 15 knots increasing to 15 to 20 knots in the afternoon.Sea: 1 to 2 metres.Swell: East to southeast 1 to 2 metres.
Saturday: Wind: North to northwesterly 15 to 20 knots before a south to southwesterly change 15 to 25 knots.