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

Nice morning and some waves too

Hello Friends, Fewer people in the water this morning at DY than I’d have expected given the sunny conditions, light winds and 9 second SSE swell. Apparently it will cloud up and start raining before long. So I’d say the plan is to make for the beach if you can. Head for your favourite south […]

Marginal morning at Dee Why

Hello Friends, Misting heavily when I climbed aloft to the RealSurf crow’s nest this morning. Through the murk I could see three or four folks bobbing around just off the rocks at the point and no one along the beach. The swell is about the same height at sea as yesterday but the average period’s […]

Cold start, but waves for Saturday

Hello Friends, A chilly 9 degrees at first light this morning, but the first shift was in the water at Dee Why. Swell is SSE at around the 2 metre mark with a power setting of 9 seconds. This is producing shoulder to head high sets at both the point and along the beach at […]

PICS: Queenscliff, Freshy, South Curly Friday arvo.

When the lighting is as good as it was this afternoon, a photographer finds it very hard to resist getting out and about with a camera. Yours truly went first to Manly on the off chance the touch of east in the swell was letting it get into the north end of the famous stretch. […]

Dramatic drop but fun to be had

Hello Friends, midday update: Shot for a short time at both Dee Why beach and Mona Vale this morning. Sets still reasonable size (overhead a bit) but the banks at both places were less than perfect. And the swell direction as well as the surface conditions were pretty marginal at Mona Vale in particular. I’ll […]

Fun little waves for Saturday morning

Hello Friends, Short version: get out there. Longer version: Swell is still close to dead south but has surprisingly jumped up to 2 metres at 9-10 seconds. Strangely, despite those numbers, it really wasn’t that big when I checked out the Dee Why to Longy and Collaroy Narrabeen stretches. The average wave looked to be […]