Hello Friends,
We started out with a fair amount of cloud overhead, but the Bureau has promised us lengthy sunny periods and a high of around 25 on the coast. Yesterday morning’s little SSE pulse rolled off pretty smartly by close of play yesterday. It went from a metre at 10 sec around mid-morning, to a woeful metre at 6 seconds. This morning starts out with the average power setting still sitting on that gutless 6 sec mark. However, I reckon we’re pretty likely to see that improve as the day goes along.
The reason for my optimism on this point is the appearance of 9 sec swell down at Eden late yesterday evening. If it makes it to Sydney, we should start to see the occasional set reasonably soon. But don’t get too excited. I reckon the best we can hope for will be something similar to yesterday, ie sets in the waist high range with the very occasional chest high bomb. But I reckon you’ll only spot these at your favourite south swell locations. Oh yeah, and we have fairly high tide around 1020… so I’m thinking about lunch time on at protected north corners maybe… Anyway, here’s hoping the crew getting together for another RealSurf BBQ are able to jag a few ahead of the snag-burning and bottle content assessments.
As of 0700 the wind is out of the SW at 7-10 kts. It’s set to settle into the usual onshore position later with this afternoon seeing 15-20 kts from the NE.
Looking ahead, you’d have to say prospects are not too flash for the early part of the week. But the models are claiming Huey will start moving the furniture mid-week and if it goes well, we could get some proper south swell around Thursday. It’s been a few weeks since we’ve had something like this popping up on the charts, so here’s hoping…
Have yourself a top old day!
Oh, and here’s my little radio surf report with Simon Marnie on the ABC 702 weekend show…
18 Oct 08 ABC 702 radio surf report with Don and Simon Marnie
