Posted in: Big Picture, Dee Why.Tags: SE-10-15kts, SE-2m-8/11s.Hello Friends,
A small and choppy start to proceedings this morning. Very messy and not too big along the Collaroy Narrabeen stretch. There were a few bods having a lash at the little thing peeling near the pool on the high tide, but it was pretty small. Up the beach from there the conditions deteriorated rapidly. Couldn’t see anyone in the water, nor any reason to be in said water.
Around the corner, Longy was a mess too. Wind is just coming straight into it, and the swell’s just not showing much at all. There are some junky chest high sets from about the pole south, but only one or two people were keen enough to chase them. A small group was bobbing about near the rocks at the point as well, but I didn’t see anyone catch anything. I’d guess the sets would be in the waist high range.
Wind is set to stay SE all day and overnight into tomorrow morning, so no real prospect of improvement on that front.
Swell is averaging about 2 metres this morning, but the Bureau and the models predict that it will drop into tomorrow and be very small to nearly flat come Monday.
We’re not really looking too flash for the next week along most of the NSW coast. Your best bet for a decent wave will be way up north where there could be a bit of east swell action. I reckon the Ballina to Tallow zone looks about the best…
Have yourself a top old weekend and go well!
TIDES H @0745, L @1415
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Saturday until midnight: Wind: SE 10/15 knots.Sea: 1 to 1.5 metres. Swell: S/SE 1 to 2 metres
Sunday: Wind: E/SE 8/13 knots, tending NE later. Sea: below 1 metre. Swell: S/SE 1 to 1.5 metres.
Monday: Wind: E/SE 5/15 knots.
Posted in: Big Picture.Tags: 5/10, Dee Why 1919, S-2m-9s, SE-10-15kts.Hi all,
Went for a quick one around 1100 at Dee Why in the SE’ly. The tops were getting blown over a bit, but some of the faces were clean enough and size as Robbo’s noted was quite acceptable. It was moderately crowded but not a major issue for anyone from what I could tell. Got a couple in the shoulder high range and consider it worth having done for sure. I’d give it a 5/10 for acceptably average. (For latest numbers, see tags below this post.)
At the moment it looks as though we should still have a few sets around tomorrow and into Friday. Swell direction is predicted to swing from SSE around to the east by Friday. Wind forecast doesn’t look too nutty either. From Sunday on, the models are suggesting we could have small to nearly, but not quite flat conditions.
I gather from one of twitter people I follow, (stevieenglish) that Maroubra was okay at around the same time as well.
And now for something different. PB told me about a panorama picture taken at Dee Why back in 1917 that he’d spotted at one of the beachside unit blocks. We located it and I grabbed a shot of the end show that shows the point. Doesn’t look as though the rocks have changed much in the 9+ decades since…
Looks like a nice little one on the inside...
Posted in: Dee Why.Tags: Dee Why beach, SE-10-15kts, SSE-2m-10s.
Junky Dee Why beach, but not small
Hello Friends,
Grey, murky, the odd shower and a baleful SE wind make for a less than appetising picture this morning in Sydney.
There were a few bods in the water at the point, but as the picture below shows, the quality wasn’t a patch on yesterday. Up the beach, a lone bodyboarder (pic above) found something with a bit more on it. But as you can see, the quality was not astounding.
Overnight, as expected, the swell has decreased. It’s currently out of the SSE and averaging about two metres out at sea on a reasonable 10 sec period. Wind is around the 15kt mark and coming from a blergh-inducing SE’ly direction.
The models are sticking with the call for a gradual weakening trend in swell size, but not a decline to unsurfable flatness until Sunday-Monday. But it currently looks as though the juice could kick back up again around Tuesday…
Here’s the Bureau’s marine forecast for the next four days:
Sydney Coastal Waters, Broken Bay to Port Hacking and 60nm seawards:
Thursday until midnight: Wind: SW/SE 15/20 knots, turning SE.Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres.Swell: S/SE about 2 metres, decreasing to 1.5 to 2 metres.
Friday: Wind: S/SE 13/18 knots, gradually turning S/SW.Sea: 1.5 to 2 metres. Swell: S/SE about 2 metres.
Saturday Outlook: Wind: W/SW 5/15 knots.
Sunday Outlook: Wind: W/SW 15/25 knots.
Finally, a word about the last three days: sorry!
Happily, thanks to Ross, we now have resolved our hardware issues and the site seems to be going damn quick. BTW, we’re aware that IE6 users are getting an ugly effect from the top corner logo right now. It’s on our script guy’s to-fix list. I might respectfully add that upgrading from IE6 would be a good idea because the bad guys have lots of exploits for it these days. IE7, the latest Safari, Opera, and my fave, Firefox, are all safer browsers than creaky old IE6.
Have yourself a top old day!
0720: ordinary looking at the point
