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

Junky options for the keen

Hello Friends, If you wanted to get in this morning, there were a few options around the place. Both the south end of Dee Why and South Steyne were offering junky but cross-offshore conditions with wave faces into the chest plus range. Swell at sea was dead south and 3.6 metres at 12 seconds as […]

Stormy conditions suitable only for the super keen

Manly surfer

Hello Friends, Not a day when many folks want to go for a surf – despite the fact that there is some size around and even a few places that aren’t totally ripped to bits by the SSE wind. At 0830 there were a few folks having a go at Manly in the rather soft […]

Manly & Curly pics

Made the trip to Manly this morning and grabbed a few snaps from there and Curly on the way home. As you can see, it’s really best suited to mals. Waves would perk up, look cute for a moment and then run out of puff a few seconds later. But water’s warm and surface conditions […]

Small but surfable many places

Hello Friends, Running a little late this morning, apologies. We still have a few scraps of knee to waist plus SSE swell showing along the beaches this morning. At 0700 the MHL Sydney buoy was recording energy from the south around to the east, but the most focuse stuff was at 131 degrees. It was […]

Fresh pics: Manly, Friday morning 1030-1130

After getting a few waves, I grabbed the camera and wandered along the Manly beachfront getting shots of folks on waves. Sunny skies and offshore winds made the chest to head high conditions look pretty fine. I pulled together a dozen or so of the highlights for the slideshow below, but of course there are […]

Pics from Manly, Sunday arvo

Spent half an hour shooting at Manly between the constant showers. Here are a few of the snaps. If you were in the water at the peaks between North and South Steyne from about 2-230pm, you might want to have a look at the whole collection here! [slideshow id=24]

Curly to Manly

Hello Friends, Not even worth taking a picture at Curly as it was – predictably enough – blown out junk. So it was on to Manly. Like Curly, the Queenscliff end of the beach was just a write-off. Sadly, the situation as Big Al has already noted, was little better at the south end. There […]