Smooth but tiny early
Hello Friends, Masses of grey cloud off to the south when I checked conditions around 0630 but the forecast south wind hadn’t yet arrived and the ocean was looking smooth and clean. It won’t last though because the forecast is calling for 10-15 kts of s-se later. Swell at 0500 was coming from the SSE […]
Little waves as the swell fades
Hello Friends, Sunny skies and light SW breeze at 0715 when I climbed aloft to the RealSurf crows nest to grab a few snaps for your good self. As you can see, it’s down noticeably from this time yesterday. I’d call the point knee high and the beach knee to maybe waist and a bit. […]
The Goat’s Surf Forecast
Surf forecast issued Thursday 19 April 2018: Seven day outlook for Sydney: You know how the Bureau has been issuing those powerful surf warnings…and you might or mightn’t have seen much powerful surf? So you’ve wondered what the hey are they talkin’ about?? Well TG is here to help, cause you might see a few […]
Waves to be had early
Hello Friends, Waist to chest with the odd plus at Dee Why this morning when I checked for the first time a little before 0700. As of 0730 wind was light from the NW. It should come around to the north at 10-15 kts later. Tide is coming in to a 1.5 m high at […]
Wind into it early
Hello Friends, Had a look at Curly and Dee Why this morning. Unfortunately the steady ESE wind (6-9 kts) was making the swell look pretty ordinary. There were no takers that I saw at Curly a little before 0800 and around at Dee Why numbers were way down on yesterday. The point was less consistent […]
Southerly morning
Hello Friends, Saw Curly and then Dee Why around 0900-ish this morning. The sky was darkening and the south wind was bumping it up, but there are definitely head plus sets coming in. Problem is that they seemed to be really slow and gutless. THe HML buoy was showing 12 seconds, so not sure what’s […]
Beautiful but looking flat at Dee Why
Hello Friends, Sunny skies, light NW breeze – and less than half a metre of 12-sec SE swell. Couldn’t see any sign of a wave at the Dee Why end of the beach and given that, I’d be surprised if there was a wave anywhere else this morning. So the obvious question is; when will […]
Flat Sunday morning
Hello Friends, What a stunning morning. Clear skies, mild temp and a steady offshore perfectly grooming the sea surface. Alas, as the pictures reveal, there is no surf at Dee Why. MHL must be having technical difficulties because the only buoy reporting in this morning was Batemans Bay. For what it’s worth, it was showing […]
Lake like Saturday morning
Hello Friends, At daybreak, as the tide was approaching the 1.6 m high at 0700 and the wind was coming steadily from the NW at 8-10 kts, the ocean was smooth inshore. Smooth and just about perfectly flat between the tiny sets. Out at sea there was a sub-metre sized NE bump. Skies were overcast […]
Definitely a few waves around
Hello Friends, Heavy smoke haze this morning so picture quality not the best, but you should be able to see that there were interesting sets turning up at Dee Why at around 0700 this morning. The MHL Sydney buoy isn’t reporting in at the moment, but down the coast at Pt Kembla it was SSE, […]