It’s one of those days when pretty much all of Australia is small or near flat. How do I know? Well, I rounded up every link I could find to actual (as opposed to virtual) wave buoy data around the surfable regions of Qld, NSW, Vic and WA – and I checked ’em all.
In NSW we have the Manly Hydraulic Labs (MHL) buoy data and out west they have the Near real-time wave data from the WA Dept of Planning and Infrastructure which posts data from Exmouth | Jurien Bay | Cottesloe | Cockburn Sound | Rottnest | Naturaliste | Albany | Esperance | Comparison.
Not so many wave buoys in Victoria, but here’s one at Point Nepean maintained by the Port of Melbourne. And you can kind of get an idea of what’s coming your way (assuming you’re in western Vic) by looking at the data coming out of the Cape du Couedic (Kangaroo Island) Wave Observations
or, if you’re closer to Torquay and thereabouts, the Cape Sorell (Tas) Waverider Buoy Observations might be more useful.
Queensland surfers fare only slightly better than those in Vicco. The Queensland Environmental Protection Agency has a page of data traces from SE Qld Wave sites that include Tweed Heads, the Gold Coast and Mooloolaba.
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