"Stay happy and you'll be perfectly fine" - Jack Norris

Cloudy but at least not windy

Cloudy morning but at least the howling cold southerly wind of yesterday has gone. Waves around 2 metres or so at South magnets. Water surface is clean and smooth but it’s currently crowded before people go to work or school (they’re late now). Max of 22 . Mid tide coming in. Have a good one […]

Windy Sunday morning

Hello Friends, Looks as though the overnight showers were clearing away before 0730 but the wind was hammering in from the SSE at 20-25 kts. At 0400 the MHL buoy was only seeing 1.3 metres of 5-sec SE chop. However, the Bureau’s hoisted a large and powerful surf warning for building south swell. Wind is […]

Today

There are waves around today… with nice conditions. Currently in the 1-2 metre range from pretty much dead South.  Wind is light and from the North, expected to go NE later. Best in north corners of longer beaches or at South swell magnets befoe the wind gets up.Watch out for blueys… there were several along […]

Postcard from Cali: foggy afternoon

Hello friends, First full day here so still shaking off jetlag. Amazingly there are actually waist plus little lines at Santa Barbara spots. However there’s a thick fog right along the shoreline so my surf pic is practically black and white. 50 metres inland it’s sunny. Have yourself a top old saturday!

The Goat’s Surf Forecast

Waves of varying sorts in the coming week. Water temp is very slowly creeping up and warmer water is still offshore but coming closer. Might even attract me back in after being away in warmer climes. Friday: down a little from today but still in 1-2 metre range East South East Saturday: up in the […]

Grey skies and dribbly waves

Hello Friends, Another grey morning with lumpy but catchable waist plus sets at Dee Why. Sorry about the blurry picture, but I was using a 40 year old lens handheld in low light, so, well anyway. At least you can sort of make out the little A-frame at Kiddies. So, not great quality, but at […]

Windy, grey and small again

Hello Friends, Turned southerly last night and this morning sees us back to heavily overcast skies and 15-25 kts of S-SSW wind. Out at sea the swell height zipped up to 2 metres as the change came through. But as of 0300 it was only 7 seconds apart. So, choppy and tiny. The gutless wind […]

Sunny morning, but waves? You want waves too?

Hello Friends, Haven’t seen a clear morning like this one for awhile. Wind is light too. Unfortunately, as the pictures show, there’s no real sign of surf at Dee Why. The MHL buoy report from 0400 showed a metre of 9-second bump from the east. As of 0715, wind was coming from the NNW at […]

Tiny but not totally flat

Hello Friends, Had a look early and can tell you that as of 0630 the centre zone of the Longy to Dee Why stretch was seeing weak knee to waist high bumps with smooth conditions under early morning grey skies. Around at the Collaory to Narrabeen stretch, apsrt from a couple of hopefuls at south […]