"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

East Coast Low doing its thing

Hello Friends, It’s here. At first light, the offshore buoys were seeing 5 metres of 12 second swell coming in from 171° (S by SSE). Wind was WSW at 13-18 kts at the North Head weather station, but down at Wattamolla it was hammering in at 33-40 kts. Skies were partly cloudy and the showery […]

Tiny town tiddlers

Hello Friends, As expected, swell’s dropped back overnight and yesterday’s occasional shoulder high sets have been replaced by today’s very occasional knee high bumps. Surface conditions were nice and smooth thanks to 10 kts of NNW breeze and out at sea the waverider buoys were detecting just under a metre of 9-second energy from 136°. […]

Saturday tiny style

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Hello Friends At 0500 the MHL buoy was showing a metre of E swell with a period of 11 seconds. So we have about the same energy levels as yesterday at the same time, but the swell’s not coming from the SE. Wind at report time was light and west; it’s set to go north […]

Swell early but wind the problem

Hello Friends, Hey! I thought it’d be bigger this morning, especially since last night the Eden buoy was showing 5 metres on peaks. What we had off Sydney as of 0500 was 2 metres of 10-sec period SE on average with peak heights of 3 metres. Unfortunately, the NE’r was into it from the get-go, […]

Little waves caught at Longy

Had not intended to get wet this morning, but it ended up happening. It’s not my fault I tell you. I was just checking it out and there was this guy I know from, from, er, the industry (I think he was supposed to be at work too) and he said ‘aw c’mon, you gotta […]

Slideshow: Longy, noon Fri 25 Sep 09

[slideshow id=16] Shot the above between about 1130-1230 at the lagoon entrance, just south of Long Reef SLSC. Check out the entire collection on my site by clicking here

More pics: 110 watershots from Saturday at Longy.

Hey all, If you were in the water from about the lagoon entrance south to Longy between about 1145 and 1345 on Saturday 18 July, I might have taken your picture. Even if you weren’t, I reckon there are a few worth looking at… Click here to check ’em out.