Posted in: Dee Why.Tags: S-2.5m-10s.Hello Friends,
A mostly sunny morning with light westerlies and a couple metres of 10 second period south swell for International Surf Day. And that means fun right along Sydney’s beaches. Unless you have some pressing obligation, I’d be heading out looking for a wave if I could. From the look of the forecasts, we should have surf and favourable winds all day long, although it appears that the wave energy may drop a toward dark, so sooner could be better on that front.
I should have some fresh galleries from Friday and Saturday up this evening, and I’m going to try to add another today if I can.
Of course I’ll be lending a (gloved) hand to the beach clean up/picnic/music gathering at Long Reef from 2pm this afternoon.
Outlook for the next few days is a steady decline to midweek smallness. There might be some little ones around on Monday morning, but Tue-Wed is looking kinda marginal at this stage on the forecast models. Looks as though we could get another perk for south swell spots Thr-Fri. What a winter we’re having!
Have yourself a great Sunday.
Tides: H @1050, L @1620
Weather Situation
A deep low pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea is moving slowly to the south. A high over central Australia extends a ridge eastwards. These two systems are resulting in fresh to strong southwest winds over NSW coastal waters. Winds are expected to ease Sunday as the low moves near to New Zealand and a high pressure ridge strengthens across NSW. Winds are likely to increase from late Monday with a cold front moving across the state on Tuesday.
Forecast for Sunday until midnight
Winds
Southwesterly 15 to 25 knots, reaching 30 knots offshore, decreasing to 10 to 20 knots during the morning then tending westerly 10 to 15 knots around midday.
Seas
Up to 3 metres decreasing below 1.5 metres during the morning.
Swell
Southerly about 2 metres.
Monday 20 June
Winds
West to northwesterly 10 to 20 knots.
Seas
Up to 1.5 metres increasing to 1.5 to 2 metres later in the evening.
Swell
Southeasterly about 1.5 metres.
Tuesday 21 June
Winds
Northwesterly 20 to 30 knots tending westerly 30 to 35 knots during the afternoon then decreasing to 25 to 30 knots during the evening.
Seas
Up to 3 metres.
Swell
Southeasterly 1 metre.
Posted in: Big Picture.Tags: 8/10, S-2.5m-10s.
No Mans sweep was heavy but sets had size.
Hello Friends,
Did you get in amongst it?
If so, I hope you went a bit better than I did. PB and I headed down to No Mans around mid-morning. Not sure I’ve ever encountered so much sweep there. Basically the entire go-out was spent paddling steadily toward the south. If you relaxed for a moment you’d get carried back into a dunderland of weirdness and rips straight out from the lugga. I did get a couple fun ones though, so was worth doing. However, in retrospect, I wish I’d gone for the late down the beach toward the SLSC.
I ducked down there for about 3/4 hr of shooting in the last embers of the day. Shot at least a couple hundred frames, so I’ll process them overnight and put them up on my blog tomorrow at some point – should anyone be interested. UPDATE: find 350 snaps I took in 40 mins here.
Outlook for tomorrow is for the swell to keep on pumping and for the SW to gradually ease across the day. It’ll be fine and mostly sunny as well, so I plan to get out and about with my camera again.
First tide tomorrow is a high at 0657.
Saturday until midnight: Wind: W/SW 20/30 knots, chiefly offshore.Sea: 2 to 3 metres offshore.Swell: S increasing to 2 to 3 metres.
Sunday: Wind: SW 20/25 knots easing to 15/20 knots during the day.Sea: 2 to 2.5 metres abating 1 to 2 metres. Swell: S about 3 metres.
Monday: Wind: SW 15/20 knots.
Tuesday: Wind: SW/SE 5/15 knots.
Over the falls in no uncertain terms.
Dee Why beach quality this arvo.
Late arvo Dee Why
Setting up a little floater at Dee Why.
Last light of day on another Dee Why wall.
Posted in: At large, Curl Curl, Dee Why, Gardens, Manly.Tags: 8/10, S-2.5m-10s.Hello Friends,
Out and about this morning on your behalf and got a few snaps. If you’re toying with the idea of the super peak at Dee Why, be prepared for intensely crowded conditions. A few folks I talked to had only managed to get one or two waves in the course of an hour or more in the water…
Will look for more pictures to post this evening if I can…
Nice conditions, but a bit softer than elsewhere along the n. beaches.
Young Frank and his amazingly beautiful bellyboard
North Curly big but pretty wild looking.
High percentage of shutdowns along the south Narra stretch, but some momentary sections early.
Another left at Dee Why
The super peak working this morning... again
Throwing spray at super peak
Mostly rights at Dee Why beach, but a few of these too...
Did I earn a cup of coffee or a beer this morning? 
Posted in: Big Picture, Dee Why.Tags: S-2.5m-10s.Hello Friends,
1020ish and a set comes through the inside at Longy...
Just ducked out to run an errand and had a look at the situation mid-morning. Pick spot seemed to be an inconsistent Longy. But there would be waves for desperates along the entire Dee Why stretch and ditto north from about Marquesas to Northy.
0800: lines stacking in at Dee Why.
Skies are grey and our swell has weakened overnight from around four metres on average yesterday to around 2.5 metres this morning. The period is still sitting on 10 seconds and it’s still dead south. Wind at around 0800 was out of the ESE but only lightly so. What this meant for Dee Why was somewhat junky and inconsistent conditions. Set waves along the beach are head high plus, but they’re shutting down with great regularity. The point is less consistent and smaller and as usual, it really wants a touch of east in the swell to get working. There are some chest high sets coming through for the crew, but overall it’s definitely smaller than the beach.
The Bureau expects the wind to swing around through the eastern quarters and to pick up from the NE and get to 13-18 kts. The swell should hang in there through the day, and I’m hopeful that it’ll be around for us again tomorrow. The NE wind should, one hopes, offer improvement for the north corners.
(Should have pics up later when Ross gets a chance to take a spanner to the gallery…)
Posted in: Dee Why.Tags: 7/10, S-2.5m-10s.
Still a few left
Hello Friends,
What a day for yours truly. That’s three days in a row sweating over how the site is working… we seem to have recovered everything and it seems to be doing what it’s supposed to be. At around 4, with the site largely restored, I decided to duck out for a quick look at the surf situation from my local vantage points. First, I checked out the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch. Northy and little Northy looked utterly missable. Couldn’t see anyone in the water. Okay size, but junky and totally the wrong swell direction. As you came back down the beach, the size decreased toward the tiny end of the scale at Collaroy.
There were a couple guys out doing practice tow-ins at centuries, but size was only around head high on most of them.
Around the corner at Long Reef, things looked junky. Size was okay, but the sideshore made it pretty unappetizing. No one was in the water in the arc from Dontals around to the bombies. I’ve seen folks out in much worse, so I guess the cold was kind of detering folks.
Finally, there was Dee Why. Still a reasonable crew on the point and a scattering of bods in the beachy up from the club house. Both beach and point were still throwing up the odd head high set, but you can see the swell has really dropped.
According to the MHL buoy, swell’s now dead south and around the 2.5 metre mark at about 10 sec apart. That’s plenty enough for surfin’ but obviously is off the peak heights by quite a bit. Very much in line with expectations.
Expect it to be a bit smaller again tomorrow morning I’d say. But south facing stretches ought to have a few on offer for the keen.
Go well and have a great evening!
Sets getting smaller and further apart.
