Hello all,

Went out on an errand and decided to take the camera with. Got a few more snaps for you to close out Thursday.

A few bods in at Northy, but although it seemed pretty clean, it looked like long waits for pretty gutless offerings. As you came down the beach, the NE’r was chewing into it and no one was in the water. Lot of weed as Robbo noted, so that no doubt is contributing to the problem for potential visitors to the waves.

Around at Long Reef the conditions were quite clean, but the swell was just not doing much. Again, very fat looking and slow. You really need a mal to get much going on the outside. In on the banks, there was a little more push happening for a few folks on the shorter gear. Given that all the kids are out of school, I’m a bit surprised at the numbers being so low.

This wave never quite broke, but he got a fair old way on it.

About the juciest thing I saw late Thrs. arvo.

Ekeing out a few turns on a slow-rolling set wave.

Not many out and not many to be had either.

Hello Friends,

Thought I’d shoot out to the end of Long Reef to see if I could spot any forerunners of the expected south swell for tomorrow.

Ocean was pretty choppy and the windswell was pretty tiny. Nobody seemed to be in the water north of about the pole, but from up on Longy headland you can see that the windswell line now has better definition than this morning. It’s also refracting more obviously around Makaha and at Whiterock. If you’d been extra game, it might even have been possible to get a long board down the line at the former. Of course with the heightened shark awareness, it could be a little nerve racking at that famously sharky venue, particularly at dusk.

Around the corner at Butterbox, it was straight onshore and totally unpopulated. However, I reckon I caught sight of something that might have been chest high for a second or two. Never had much luck with that place myself.

The bombies at Long Reef weren’t showing much of anything, but if you look closely at the picture below, you can sort of imagine a line in amongst that chop…

Anyway, as noted earlier, I plan to be up bright and early tomorrow just in case…

Is that a little swell I see lining around the point?

Is that a little swell I see lining around the point?

No men in grey suits? Are those forerunners out the back?