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On the road

Out of sight of the ocean this morning but it’s possible I will post something later. Have a great day one and all.

Cool, cloudy, crowded but waves to be had

Hello Friends, Definitely surfable this morning at Dee Why both along the beach and at the point – although the latter was hosting around 20 hopefuls as of 0820. I’d call it waist to shoulder with the occasional plus in the mix. Wind was out of the SW at 10-15 kts, so surface conditions were […]

Clean but showery early

Hello Friends, Wind was SW for the early session this morning. The showers were coming through frequently and the 0700 1.7 m high tide was taking a toll on the inconsistent 7-sec period 2 metre SSE wind swell. There were a few people in the water at Northy, at south Narrabeen and Dee Why. In […]

As predicted it’s southerly

Hello Friends, Surf conditions are completely unappetizing at Dee Why. I could only see one person in the water. I’d call wave faces waist to chest plus on sets. But it’s so wind-blown and bumpy that catching the close-together wind swell will be a real challenge. Wind was SE 15-20 kts as of 0850, right […]

The Goat’s Surf Forecast

Surf forecast issued Thursday 26 April 2018: Seven day outlook for Sydney: If you’re like me, and are already sick of cooler Southerly winds with not much useful surf to show for it, well we’re both just going to have to suck it up. Like my Digger grandfather wrote to my grandmother from the Western […]

Foggy early with a southerly by noon

Hello Friends, Thick fog early. I’ll add pics once it lifts. Wind was a westerly at 8 kts as of 0720. An hour earlier the MHL buoy was showing less than a metre of east swell at 8 seconds. Tide was a deep 1.7 m high at 0515 and is now dropping to 0.4 m […]

Small waves for Anzac Day morning

Hello Friends, A grey and cool start to Anzac Day along the beaches. The sea was comparatively smooth thanks to a light westerly and it looks as though we have another day of smallish but definitely surfable conditions. As the pictures show, waves were waist to maybe chest on the better sets and there were […]

Small to tiny this morning

Hello Friends, Lightly offshore again under sunny skies this morning. The wind will come around to the SE at 10-15 kts as we warm up to the 24° high. Tide is dropping to a 0.4 m low at 0955. The MHL reading from 0600 showed 1.2 m of 10 second SSE bump which, as the […]

Nice lines on Monday morning

Hello Friends, Some fun looking lines rolling into Dee Why around 0700 this morning. It was a bit setty looking so I’d say average size is in the waist plus range, but every now and then you could see a shoulder high set. According to the MHL buoy swell was 1.4 m from the SSE […]

Sunny Sunday and waves to play on

Hello Friends, There was a murmurer from the SE this morning when I climbed aloft and sure enough, there are waves. Nothing spectacularly big or anything, but as the pictures show there were shoulder plus faces along the beach and waist to maybe occasionally chest for the crew at the point. Seemed to be many […]