Smooth little lines and cloudy skies
Manly run again this morning and to my surprise it was only lightly textured and there were little waist high lines well suited to mals. Next stop, was Curly where it was a bit bigger than Manly and almost as clean. The main crowd was in the middle but there were definitely rideable little peaks […]
Smooth early, southerly later
Hello Friends, Wind was coming from the west at 8-10 kts around 0730, so the surface conditions were really pretty nice looking. Made the Manly run this morning and it looked soft but fun for the right equipment along the middle stretch. Curly was bigger and choppier and Dee Why was in between in both […]
Weak, small and bumpy early
Hello Friends, Kind of as expected this morning. Skies started clearing just before sunrise, but the wind was a steady 7-8 kts from the NNE, so the 1.5 metre 7-second NE wind swell was kind of lumpy and weak looking. Set wave faces would briefly stand up into the shoulder high range at the focal […]
NE wind from the get-go
Hello Friends, Grey skies and 9-11 kts of NNE wind chopping up a tiny 1.4 metre 5-second NE bump as Friday gets started in Sydney. Although it was holding off when I grabbed the snaps, the Bureau tells us we have a 95% chance of showers as we head to a high of 27C. Wondering […]
The Goat’s Surf Forecast
The Goat’s Surf Forecast Surf forecast issued Thursday 11 March 2021: Seven day outlook for Sydney How d’ya like your La Nina summer so far?? (Yeah yeah … I know it’s not technically summer now, pedants) Interesting huh? for those who’ve never experienced one before. A mate in a regional bushfire prone area said: I […]
Nup, nada, naw
Hello Friends, Onshore and just about flat along the beaches this morning. As of 0730, the wind was ENE 7-12 kts at North Head. Swell at sea was a shade under the metre mark at about 9 seconds from 159°. Tide was coming into the 0800 1.77 m high and showers were falling here and […]
Tiny chop early
Hello Friends, The numbers tell the story: swell at sea as of 0745 was 1.4 metres at 8-9 seconds from 171°, wind at North Head was SE 6-7 kts and tide had just peaked at 1.7 metres around 0710. There was a light drizzle falling at various points along the beaches and we are headed […]
Back to tiny for Tuesday
Hello Friends, Swell faded out by yesterday afternoon and this morning sees less than a metre of 10 second SSE swell dribbling into our beaches. Best exposures could be into the knee high range, but expect to do a bit of waiting around. Wind was out of the WNW early, but is expected to go […]
Fading but still a few big ones this morning
Hello Friends, Had to be in Manly before sunrise this morning, so grabbed a few snaps on my return to RealSurf HQ. Tide was high at 0500, so everywhere had a kind of fat look. Plus it was generally scrappy and lumpy looking despite the smooth surface and light wind early. Didn’t see anyone in […]
Heaps of swell piling in Sunday morning
Hello Friends, Swell at sea was in the 2-3 metre range from the SE at 14 seconds apart, so bomb sets at Dee Why this morning looked to be in the 2x overhead range. When I grabbed the day’s first pics around 0830, people were sitting pretty far north of the point, suggesting that there […]