Hello Friends,

Seems likely that most Sydney surfers will, like most southern California surfers, be giving it a miss today. The fates are ganging up against northern beaches waterpersons in particular, what with the onshores, rain and the dead whale at Newport potentially luring lots of sharks inshore.  The Goat’s call from yesterday is lining up – sadly – with the indicators this morning.  Swell is a couple metres out of the SSE but it hardly matters given the other conditions.

On this side of the ditch the weather is quite warm, the skies are blue and unlike the eastern part of the USA, there’s no prospect of a twister suddenly appearing. Sadly, the cold pacific (this morning’s water temp at Santa Barbara pier is up a nudge to 14C) is looking pretty feeble. Even exposed places such as California Street in Ventura (about 45 min south of Santa Barbara) are barely registering anything remotely surfable. That said, I might go scout around anyway…

Here’s a shot of the inside at C-Street. This is roughly 30 percent of the entire break by the way.

Have yourself a good one!

We finished the day with one last sesh at 9-iron reef. An hour or so before dark, with the tide on the turn and coming back in, the SEly sea breeze backed right off and the surface cleaned up. The swell is still rawboned and ragged but it’s definitely on the fade down this way. Anyhow… we paddled out for one last taste.

It turned out to be pretty fun. Sets were in the chest high range with the odd bigger one. You couldn’t say it was great, but there were only 4 or 5 of us in the water and sometimes the inside section stood up very nicely thank you.

After the boards were put away and the dry clothes pulled on, there was one last mission to be accomplished – dinner. So it was off to one of my favourite Ulladulla venues, namely the bowlo. Got there just in time too. Steaks and beers and surfed out… wouldn’t be dead for quids said Paul.

And ya wouldn’t!

Go well.

Hello Friends,

Cleaner this morning than at this time yesterday – and the swell still pushes on. It’s a touch smaller, but it looks as though the settings are very close to yesterday’s. The wind is lighter too and at the moment it’s offshore. As you can see from the forecast below, it’s set to stay side- offshore this morning and the swell should be more than adequate for surfing purposes all day.

I’ll try to grab a few more snaps and update you later on this morning.

High tide was around 0638.

Here’s the Bureau’s call:

Forecast for Thursday
Partly cloudy, with a morning light shower or two clearing to a fine
afternoon. Light to moderate southwest to southeast winds, turning
easterly in the afternoon.

Thursday until midnight: Wind: SW/SE 10/15 knots, tending E’ly in the afternoon. Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: E/SE 2.5 metres.
Friday: Wind: N/NW 5/10 knots, increasing to 15/25 knots late in the day.Sea: About 1 metre rising to 1.5 to 2.5 metres later. Swell: E/SE 1.5 to 2 metres.
Saturday: Wind: W/SW winds 20/30 knots.

0630: a small crew on it from first light

0630: cleaned up and dropped a touch overnight.