Hello Friends,

Happened by Gardens late this arvo and what do I see? Little waves. Fun little waves actually and amazingly, for a holiday weekend, not overly crowded either. Grabbed a snap with the Sony a900 I’m currently testing.

Swell has gone around to the ENE during the day and is averaging about 1.5 metres out at sea on a pretty gutless 7 second period. But you know what? Those little peaks looked pretty tempting – even though I was out hunting for something to bbq this evening.

extra pic for you as well: Silva Lima the womens winner at Bells from Tim Bonython.

Hope you got in today!

Bells 3009 Womens winner is Silva Lima.

There were a few little peaks to be had up and down the Gardens to Narrabeen stretch.

Hello to all the teatime crew,

You’re an elite (ie small) group kids. Most of the traffic at the site has now simmered down, but your webmaster hasn’t backed off ’cause we got waves and it just wouldn’t be right!

Latest data from the MHL Sydney buoy is showing a couple metres of SE swell with an average period just nudging up to 10 seconds. There are some 12 sec sets in the mix as well. The good news is that the Batemans Bay buoy is showing a couple metres out of the SE as well, but the average period is pushing up to 11 sec.

We’re set for light SE wind again tomorrow morning, so with luck there will be a few waves around the place for Sunday. Could be cloudy though, as there are showers in the forecast.

Just on dusk, I headed down to the beach again, just to see how the swell was going. The wind had backed off, so I thought there might be a little something along the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch. And sure enough, there were still people in catching the lumpy bumpy not so little waves pushing into the stretch. After grabbing a few snaps, I went around to Long Reef for another look as well. No one in the water at the bombies that I could see, but some bodyboarders were messing around in the little surge at Fishermans.

About 10cm deep where he is...(Fishermans)

Last rays of Saturday illuminate a moment of acceleration.

There's a person in that ball of whitewater...

At least you could surf 'em at far nth Collaroy.

Dusk entertainment.