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

Sunny skies, tiny swell

Hello Friends, A beautiful sunny morning along the beaches with a light WNW breeze as of 0900. As the pictures show the waves are really tiny. Out at sea the bump is about a metre at a choppy 5 seconds apart from the SSW. Fortunately we’re still allowed to exercise (with a maximum of one […]

Grey and drizzly Monday morning

Hello Friends, Waited for the drizzle to back off before getting this morning’s pictures. Out at sea the east wind bump is 1.2 metres at 8 seconds. Tide was high a touch after 0700. Dee Why is in the knee to waist plus range. As of this morning, I’m out of self-isolation so, according to […]

Keep your distance

Hello Friends, This morning there were 1617 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in NSW and the State government is flagging stage 3 restrictions. Remember to that there is an unknown number of asymptomatic cases which are capable of shedding virus without realising it. If you’re at home, it’s much less likely that the virus can ‘find’ […]

Is this trip really necessary

In response to new measures introduced by the State Government that limit the number of people on any beach to 500, some beaches and harbour pools are closed until further notice. This is to encourage appropriate social distancing (1.5m between people) and to reduce the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). Please contact councils for local beach […]

Windy, messy, lumpy, grey

Hello Friends, First order of the day, wash hands, check temp for day 12 of self-isolation. All good. Fire up the coffee, flick on the news, grab the camera and climb aloft for a couple of snaps. High overcast, wind ESE 10-15 kt and the ocean looks like it too – dull, choppy and bumpy […]

The Goat’s Surf Forecast

The Goat’s Surf Forecast Surf forecast issued Thursday 26 March 2020: Seven day outlook for Sydney: I said to a mate this morning that I’d been mulling over what I should say in the forecast in a socially responsible way, given present circumstances. He said: Just say… The surf is crap. And you can’t go […]

Southerly and grey

Hello Friends, Southerly was hammering along at 17-25 kts under lowering grey skies when your self-isolating correspondent climbed aloft with the camera at RealSurf HQ. There were a couple of people in the water, but they must have been pretty desperate for some water time because the quality, as you can see from the pic, […]

Sunday crowd for the waves

Hello Friends, 2.7 metres at 15 seconds apart from the SE was delivering shoulder plus wave faces for the Sunday crowds along the south end of Dee Why beach. Wind was coming lightly from the north There looked to be around 30 people in the water at the south end by 0800 but up the […]

Smooth little bumps for the unconfined

Hello Friends, Day 9 of recent arrival self-isolation for your correspondent. Thanks to the high tide at 0920, conditions were lumpy and fat. But there were waves in the waist high range. Wind was light NW early, so surface conditions were glassy. Out at sea the swell was 1.9 metres at 15 seconds from 155° […]