Scrappy but there are waves
Hello Friends, 9-12 kts of NNE wind at 0740 with smoke haze reducing visibility to about 5 kms along the beaches. Sets at the Dee Why end of the beach were around the waist high mark, close together and looking pretty soft. Out at sea as of 0500 the MHL buoy was seeing 2.4 m […]
Smoke haze and dribble waves
Hello Friends, Smoke was pretty bad when I grabbed the shots around 0730. I’d say we were down to 4-5km visibility. According to dpie air quality monitoring, we’re probably looking at fair PM10 right now – but we don’t know for sure as there are no monitors on the Northern Beaches. Surfwise it looks remarkably […]
Grey skies, smoke haze, hot later tiny waves
Hello Friends, Up early for a Sunday, so grabbed the pics at 0600 or so. Temperature was a pleasant 22C, but it’ll go up 9 degrees today. Skies were gloomy and the sun was a menacing red through the smoke haze from the fires. Surfwise, well the pictures tell the story – it’s bumpy and […]
Barely there on Saturday morning
Hello Friends, As of 0630 the surface conditions were bumpy and lightly textured along the beaches. There was a weak, close-together looking knee to maybe waist high little wind swell wafting in from E-SE. You could tell it was pretty uninteresting because there were only a handful of people in the water on a nice […]
Not happening at Dee Why this morning
Hello Friends, A steady 8-12 kt NNE breeze at 0730 and a metre of 5-second SE wind bump were adding up to not much in the way of surf at Dee Why this morning. The weak and tiny conditions weren’t being helped by the tide filling into a 1.88 m high 0950. It’s gonna be […]
The Goat’s Surf Forecast
What’s with the smoke? RFS advice>>> https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/major-fire-updates/mfu?id=8461 https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/major-fire-updates/mfu?id=8461 The Goat’s Surf Forecast Surf forecast issued Thursday 26 December 2019: Seven day outlook for Sydney: The good news for this week is>>>Waves – of varying sorts – all week. Don’t get too excited… It will be mainly NE windswell but there should be enough of […]
Boxing day tinyness
Hello Friends, Glassy with just a breath of NNE breeze when I grabbed the snaps around 0700. Tide was coming into the 1.89m high at 0910 and skies were more sunny than not. Lots of folks in the water at both Curly and Dee Why beaches, but waves were pretty marginal. I’d call it a […]
Happy Christmas waves
Hello Friends, It doesn’t always work out this way for all the kiddies with brand new boards, but if you don’t mind lumpy, bumpy and scrappy conditions, there are a few waves to be had. Dee Why was showing sets into the shoulder plus range along the beach while it looked to be a little […]
Waves for Tuesday morning
Hello Friends, Swell picked up yesterday and toward evening when I checked it, there were head high plus sets at the best exposures. This morning looks to be less consistent but as of 0500, the 1.6 m SSE swell was packing some 16-17 second component, so although I didn’t catch any when I took the […]
Little grey Monday waves
Hello Friends, Glassy knee to maybe stomach high little waves coming into the point this morning. It was a touch bigger looking along the beach, but it also seemed to be shutting down. Wind at North Head as of 0900 was SSW 5-6 kt. The MHL data from 0600 showed a mix of tiny, long […]