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

Sunny, clean and small

Hello Friends, Knee high little lines were coming into Dee Why at 0700 this morning. Skies were clear and wind was about 8-9 kts. Swell has dropped about 30cm from yesterday’s peak of 1.5 metres, but period is still around the same 11 seconds and direction is still SE. Tide was low at 0510 and […]

Postcards from Biarritz

Surf at Guethary not so good today so we drove 20 mins up the road to spend the day at Biarritz. (above) Some stunning buildings there alongside the coast.  This is the iconic Villa Belza…. Cool Biarritz beach sand art.   How do they do that? When the tide goes out here it really goes out! […]

Little waves for Wednesday morning

Hello Friends, Glorious morning along the beaches, and better than that, there are actually little knee to waist high plus waves showing at Dee Why (and elsewhere obviously!). The wind was lightly onshore early and the MHL buoy was seeing 1.5 metres of 11 second energy from the SE as of 0700. First tide of […]

Postcard from Guethary, France

Swell has dropped overnight making the main break at Guethary more manageable.   Big tidal difference at the moment and a lot of the swell’s energy seemed to fade with the lowering tide. Still the occasional bomb set though  to keep everyone on their toes. Lovely part of the world to go surfing. Btw, water temp […]

Micro Tuesday morning

Hello Friends, Another quiet surf day for Sydney. As the pictures show, waves are in the ankle to knee high range. That’s too small for the point, and at least from the RealSurf crowsnest, I couldn’t see anybody in the water along the beach. As of 0830 wind was light from the SW under a […]