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Postcards from Crescent this morning

Hello Friends, At close of play last night there were still head plus sets at the point. However it was chopped up by a crossshore wind so almost no one was in the water. This morning saw a much reduced swell. You know it’s marginal when people are ekeing out little slides on ankle to […]

Swell at Crescent this morning

Hello Friends, A few postcards from Crescent this morning where the day started sunny with light wind and consistent east swell in the chest to head and a bit range. Tide was coming in, so the waves were pretty fat and therefore hard to get into a lot of the time. Still, I’m not complaining […]

Monday evening at Crescent Head

It’s been a long time since I made a solo surf trip, but when I saw the swell models for the next couple of days, I decided to make the run to Crescent just in case. It’s the first long trip I’ve made in the Tesla too. Turns out finding a charge along the way […]

Postcards from Crescent Head this morning

crescent head surf

Saturday morning saw knee to waist with the odd plusses at the top of the point. Very few of them ran down to the carpark and energy levels were pretty modest, but with a log or similar, you could definitely get the odd glide. Hope to put up another update later…

Postcards from Crescent

Crescent Head surfer watershot

Hello Friends, Your correspondent started tapping out this note somewhere between Macksville and Coffs as we were making our way through an apparently endless sequence of roadworks slowdowns. Your tax dollars are definitely at work up this way. Stayed in Crescent last night. When we pulled in an hour or so before dark the skies […]

Postcards from Crescent Head

north coast beach

Hello Friends, Swell faded overnight and this morning on high tide it was too fat and full to lure us into the water. So a local mate took us down to one of his fave little wave spots where we picked up a few clear water tinies. Got back around lunch time and tide was […]

Pretty pictures from this morning at Crescent Head

Crescent Head surfer

Dropping tide, healthy crowd (40+, lotsa boomers), sunny skies, light offshores and mostly knee to waist but with just enough chest to shoulder sets to keep it fun and interesting. After getting out, I grabbed the Fujifilm X-Pro2 and the 100-400mm lens I have for testing and sat at the top of the point, where […]

Caught a few at Crescent

Hello Friends, As foretold by the swell models, there was a bit more swell up north than in Sydney again today. We need to be back in Sydney by 5, so surfin’ had to finish by around 1100. We started the morning with a quick look at the point With our peerless local guide Greg. […]

Up the coast

Hello Friends, Woke up to some fun-size mainly east swell in Crescent Head this morning. 20+ people in the water at the point as the sun cleared the horizon so, with the threat of stiff north wind on the cards, our local host suggested we look south along the road to Plomer. Turned out to […]