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Small to flat Saturday

Hello Friends, Lovely morning out there but not a hint of a wave at Dee Why, nor anywhere else along most of the east coast. Only a 6 second period NE wind swell lapping in. You might possibly find a knee high wave face at the right spot on the right tide, but that’s about […]

Tiny weak NE wind chop

Hello (again) Friends, Came back from my morning airport run to find Curly with three or four people waiting around for something anything at high tide. Biggest thing I saw was maybe waist high – screaming outside max. Stopped in DY for a coffee and as the tide dropped there were actually some little waist […]

Tiny but not totally and absolutely flat

Hello Friends, Very small to almost – but not quite – flat this morning at the Dee Why to Longy and the Collaroy Narrabeen stretches. There’s a wee little NE wind swell of about a metre at 5 seconds apart. This translated into knee to maybe waist on the best sets at the best spots. […]

Small Sydney, smaller SoCal

Hello Friends, Sorry to have not filed anything for a few days now. I’ve decided to stick around another week to help out my friends, so normal service from me won’t resume until next weekend. Looking at the WRL pic at checking a couple of the cams, it looks as though conditions are pretty marginal, […]

Scraps

Hello Friends, Not much of anything showing on the MHL directional spectra plot for Sydney this morning. What we have is coming out of the NE at about 6 seconds apart and a metre out at sea. There were a few small peaks along the Dee Why to Longy stretch for the early, but if […]

Getting pretty quiet out there

Hello Friends, When I checked the Dee Why stretch this morning, there were only a couple of bods in the water with wave riding gear. It is very small, flat almost, and yet the Bureau says that we might have something surfable later. If it happens, it’ll be locally generated by a projected 25-30 kt […]

Summer holding pattern

Hello Friends, Tide was high at 0700 and the MHL buoy was reporting a touch over a metre of 6 second period NE wind chop. Skies were clear and there was a light WNW breeze. Where Dee Why’s concerned, this all means that there wasn’t enough going on to attract more than one or two […]

About the same as yesterday

Hello Friends, RealSurf HQ was socked in at report writing time this morning. I’ll eyeball it in an hour or so, but looking at the MHL data, I’d say that it’s still very small and weak because the numbers are, if anything, slightly worse than yesterday, and yesterday was just about flat. We’re looking at […]

Nothin’ much at Dee Why

Hello Friends, I don’t think I’d be steering you wrong to say that there’s not much chance of a wave this morning along the northern beaches. There’s about a metre of NE wind swell, but given the 6 second period, it’s somewhere between utterly flat and barely catchable. I’d be looking at NE spots with […]

Choppy and micro

Hello Friends, A windy and tiny day coming up for Sydney.Only a metre of NE wind swell dribbling in. Dee Why isn’t showing anything in the way of a wave and the ocean is looking choppy under clear but hazy skies. Much warmer too this morning as spring announces its imminent arrival. Another day for […]