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Might be a wave

Hello Friends, Wave energy looks to have faded overnight, but there should still be some soft waist plus wind bumps around at places with easterly exposure. The MHL data for Sydney hasn’t updated since yesterday but late in the afternoon when I walked down for a look (busted clavicle means no driving or pushie riding) […]

Not too appetizing

Hello Friends, As of 0800 we hadĀ  8-13 kts of ESE wind at North Head. The MHL buoy off Sydney was detecting 2.2 metres of dead south swell at 11 seconds. So, there should be something at south magnets, but the onshore conditions and a deep 1.7 m high tide at 0740 will mean lumpy, […]

Bike helmets are good

Hello Friends, Missed yesterday’s report thanks to some unplesantness involving my pushie. On Sunday morning I crashed. According to my Strava app, I was doing 40 kph coming down a hill in Harbord – and thenĀ  I abruptly wasn’t. I have no memory of the crash. But my body and helmet tell the story. Along […]

Heat coming and only tiny waves

Hello Friends, We’re heading for a high of 35 today, so you’d hope there’d be waves of some sort. There are, but it’s small. At 0745 Dee Why looked to be in the waist high range on sets. No one was at the point and nor could I see anyone up the beach at No […]

Fast fading but still there early

Hello Friends, The early session still had the odd shoulder high bomb at magnets, but it was pretty inconsistent for the keen types on it by 0630 when I checked conditions. The wind was stil light, however as the forecast below notes, we can expect the SE breeze to pick up ahead of a NE’ly […]