Dusk report
Hello Friends, Kept an eye on the wind all day, hoping there might be a glass off for the late. It didn’t really smooth off enough for my taste, but the wind was lighter and there were plenty of folks in the water along the Dee Why to Longy stretch. Bigger set wave faces were […]
More grey skies
Hello Friends, Getting back into the routine as the jet lag gradually wears away. Huey kindly isn’t tempting me away from the to do mountain this morning. Dee Why is not exactly a picture of pure fun. I take my metaphorical hat off to those hardy types who were having a lash at the waist […]
Getting marginal
Hello Friends, Not the best looking conditions down at Dee Why beach this morning. Swell has dropped again overnight and it now looks as though the average wave is in the waist high range. Undoubtedly there will be some bigger sets, but if it’s like yesterday, it’ll be pretty disorganised and distinctly windswell-y. Weather promises […]
Windblown
Hello Friends, Not the most spectacularly interesting morning. 20kts of ESE wind has made it very junky at Dee Why – and pretty much everywhere else in Sydney. Swell is SE and averaging a touch over at 2 metres. The dominant period is around the 8 second mark, but there’s some 10 sec stuff in […]
South change world
Hello Friends, The Bureau was absolutely right about the south change coming through before daybreak. Yesterday evening there was still a bit of size going on, but the offerings this morning are much more modest. If you want to compare and contrast, just click the link to yesterday’s pics under the daily gallery. You can […]
Late arvo update: Huey’s showing some interest
Hello Friends, Since this morning, Huey’s decided to make a few changes. First he tweaked the swell direction back to SE from the dead south, then he bumped the average size from a metre to over two metres. At the same time the period has gone from 6 to 8 seconds. The only setting that […]
Not the greatest start
My phone went off this morning with a call from PB who was checking the beaches and had heard about a shark attack at Avalon on the radio. He’s now been up there and spoken to a few folks on the beach and I’ve set up a story which I’ll update if more news comes […]
Late arvo update: wind dropping
Hello Friends, The wind’s backed off a little as we head toward evening. The water down at Dee Why is not looking too lovely (note the colour in the picture), but that hasn’t put off 30 odd people (at least) from having a go. There are some okay sections in amongst the general messiness. Again, […]
Yeah, it’s wretched in Sydney
Hello Friends, Running around this morning revealed nothing more than what the others have already reported. It’s just awful – not to put too fine a point on it. As of 0915 this morning the wind was out of the SE at 10-25 kts depending upon where you’re standing. That’s consistent with the Bureau’s call […]
SE’ly morning
Hello Friends, As PB’s already noted this morning, the SE’ly that blew away the blast furnace heat of yesterday has pushed up a bit of junky but okay size windswell. Dee Why was showing the odd shoulder high set up the beach where the wind was into it. Quite an improvement in size over yesterday, […]