AFTERNOON UPDATE:
Got back from a pleasant session at Dee Why point to find that our server spat the dummy at roughly the moment I’d gone out the door. Sigh. Oh well, these things happen. Anyway, the waves at Dee Why were in the chest to head high plus range. The quality was around 3 out of 5 I’d say. But the fun scale was more like 4 out of 5 – for whatever that’s worth!
From the MHL Sydney buoy it looks as though the swell is still SE. The average size is down just barely to right on 2 metres, while the power setting has crept up to a bit over 9 seconds. So I’d say there should be something to keep you entertained if you’re heading out for a late one.
… here’s this morning’s ramble…
Hello Friends,
Clear skies, abating winds, cold start, but were are waves for the rather substantial crowd in the water a little after 0700 this morning at Dee Why. Looks like a bit of a scratch to get into ’em too. Nice head high sets would come in and you’d see bursts of paddling as people tried to make it on to the vertical face but a surprising number of them seemed to escape being ridden.
However, once people did make the drop, things looked pretty fun. Size ranged from chest to head high on the sets I saw while taking the pictures. Strangely, there didn’t seem to be too much going on with the point. Only a few people there because it seems for some bizarre reason that many of the sets are just going by the spot. Maybe I just didn’t watch long enough, because looking at the MHL buoy, the data is showing a touch over 2 metres from the Sydney favourable SE. Period is around the 9 second mark, so there’s definitely some energy to be had. Indeed, I reckon a fair number of spots should have surf this morning, particularly from around the Illawarra north.
The Bureau says that we’ll have S-SW winds this morning, but by the afternoon it should be around to the NE at around 10-15 kts. The swell generator is pushing up the coast from us and in concert with the dropping wind, we can expect to have a declining swell heading into the weekend – but it should still be surfable tomorrow morning when the Bureau is telling us we can expect light and variable winds ahead of an afternoon NE’r.
I hope to get out and about with a camera later, so, with luck, I might have a few more snaps to share at some point.
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