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

Grey and dull but there are waves still

Hello Friends, Uniformly grey skies, light offshores and comparatively mild temps as the day kicked off. Tide was low at 0725 and is coming back to the high at 1345. Swell has decayed overnight but the MHL buoy was still showing 1.5 metres of 10 second SE swell at daybreak. Outlook is for the swell […]

Small but not flat Sunday

Hello Friends, Pleasant looking morning down at Dee Why when I first checked at 0815. Swell is out of the SE at about 10 seconds apart with an average height at sea of around 1.5 metres. This was translating into waist to chest on the rideable ones at Dee Why. I reckon it might be […]

Something for the early risers

Hello Friends, If you were in the water before 0700 at Dee Why, there were waist to chest pluses at various peaks along the beach, but nothing much at the point. The incoming tide (it was low at 0620) helped and the light NW wind meant it was glassy too. Banks are still kinda variable […]

PICS by Don: Sth Narrabeen, Thr evening 18 Aug 11

After running a heap of errands I finally got down to south Narrabeen right on dusk. Opted to take pictures rather than go for a short surf. I set up basically in front of Marquesas and shot up and down the beach from there. The energy focus definitely shifted around quite a bit. Sometimes the […]

PICS from Don: Curl Curl Sunday midday

A sunny Sunday with a fading but still fun swell lighting up the south exposed beaches. Your webmaster was on the case at Curly around midday. Swell was still SE and although it was smaller than the day before, there were still some reasonably sizable sets to be had… Check out the piccies to see […]

PICS: Dee Why Thr arvo late and clean

What a run of swell we had. By Thursday afternoon Huey’d backed off on the throttle, but he was still sending some juicy sections Dee Why beach’s way. And the light was perfect, so I just had to go shoot for the last hour of the day… As usual, clicking on either of the pics […]

PICS: Nth Narrabeen Sun 16/1, late arvo

After shooting at Dee Why, I headed up to North Narrabeen to see what the swell was doing. A huge crew was on it and there was a bit of bounce coming off the beach, but there were some solid sets and plenty to take pictures of. To see all the shots I grabbed between […]

PICS: Longy, Mon arvo 9 Aug 2010

Monday afternoon and the small SE swell was creating waist to chest high plus peaks at Long Reef (just north of No Mans) for a moderate size crew. As always my goal was to shoot anyone who caught a wave – at the moment(s) they looked their best. If you were out, have a check […]

Watershots from Dee Why

Hello Friends, Decided to test my somewhat dodgy back with a session at Dee Why. PB and I paddled out toward the middle of the day and spent a good couple hours waiting for the occasional juicy set waves to roll through. Here’s the interesting thing. At no point while we were out were there […]

Dee Why looking swell

Hello Friends, Just climbed up into the crow’s nest for a squizz at the ol’ DY. Here are a couple shots of sets. Seem a little infrequent to me.