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

Video: beautiful wood boards!

I came across this story about Maine, USA wood board builders on Bloomberg of all places… when I grow up, I want a real wood board!

Ocean Care Day at Manly

Rode me bike from Collaroy Plateau to Manly and took the beach route via Curly. Tide was way too high so the soft chest plus wind swell was gutless in the extreme. Tide dropping should help plus wind still mellow at noon. South Curl Curl late morning… Later at Manly as tide dropped the south […]

Hang ten (decades): Walter Munk, inventor of the surf forecast, turns 100

By Shalom Jacobovitz (SJ1_8558) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

  Like big waves? Thanks to surf forecasting, you’ll know when and where to find them. Shalom Jacobovitz/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Paul Spence, UNSW and Shane Keating, UNSW As dawn washes over Bondi Beach, you can see the surfers beyond the break, gently rising and falling on their boards. They gather like this when the […]

PICS: Sunday 08/10/17 Curl Curl

Stopped by Curl Curl Sunday around 0830 and stayed for an hour to shoot people catching some fun looking waves along the middle part of the beach. You can see the whole 246-picture gallery here.

Manly, lunchtime and Chris was there with the 400mm

It was hump day today in Sydney. Lunchtime was upon me and I needed to escape from work for a hour and clear my head so I decided to jump in the car with my Nikon 400mm 2.8 and head for Manly and see if there was any decent waves. I arrived at North Steyne […]

Gallery from Tuesday evening at Dee Why

A selection of snaps taken just before dark on Tuesday. There were 30 people in the water at the point and the swell was fading, but every now and then a solid set would roll through and some lucky and or well positioned surfer(s) would score. Click any picture to visit the entire gallery.

Gallery: Sunday morning, Dee Why

Swell a bit smaller and slightly less consistent, but the beach was firing up more than the day before. Click here to see all 155 images!!