Manly, Northy pics
Around 0900 I checked Manly and then North Narrabeen (via Curly) As you can see from the pictures below, Manly was pretty awful. Hardly anyone in the water there, and around at Curly there were only a scattering of folks right up at the north end. Conditions were raw and messy and although there was […]
Scrappy Tuesday morning
Hello Friends, Just a quick snapshot this morning. Although swell is out of the SSE and NE at 1-1.4m at 11-12 seconds, Dee Why was knee to waist, and inconsistent as of 0730. Will try to grab a few more snaps to share later this morning. Weather Situation A strong high lies over the Tasman […]
Friday rough and challenging but possible
Hello Friends, Another blustery morning with leaden skies and swirling wind onshore. Offshore the white horses fleck the sea. The MHL Sydney buoy was taken offline by a boat ripping it off its mooring, so our nearest data is coming from Pt Kembla where the swell was around the 3.5 metre mark at 11 seconds […]
Summery looking Monday morning
Hello Friends, Warm from early and a textured sea under summery pale blue skies as we rush through spring. Swell is still coming from the SSE. It was showing about a metre of 12-sec energy on the 0700 MHL spectral data. As the pictures show, that was making for waist to chest plus wave faces […]
Faded away to just about nothin’
Hello Friends, As of 0830 we were seeing knee to waist high (with the odd plus at magnet spots) thanks to about a metre of 11-second SE swell. Skies are sunny and wind’s coming from the WNW at 5-10 kts. At Dee Why you’ll be doing well to pick up knee to waist high bumps […]
Just about all gone for now
Hello Friends, All over bar the shouting this morning at Dee Why. Swell has dropped to less than a third of yesterday’s peak and as of 0600 was 1.2 metres from the ESE at 8 seconds apart. Translation: wave faces were knee to waist at 0700. Surface conditions were glassy and skies mostly clear, so […]
Very small but a few ripples around
Hello Friends, The relentless decline continued overnight and yesterday morning’s waist to chest plus sets has now transformed to knee to waist. Swell is pretty south and although it’s only a metre out at sea, the average period is a shade under 13 seconds. Next tide is a low at 0920 and that means the […]
Down another notch, but not flat
Hello Friends, Another beautiful morning in Sydney. Light wind and glassy little waves were on offer for Dee Why folk. Nothing amazing, but definitely the odd waist plus wave face rolling in thanks to a metre of 8 second period SE swell. A few people were in the water chasing the occasional section – and […]
Stormy Wednesday
Hello Friends, 10-15 kts of SSE wind knocking the tops off a choppy and grey sea this morning. Swell was showing at nearly 3 metres and 11 seconds from the SE as of 0400 according to the recently revived MHL Sydney buoy. Nothing approaching that size at Dee Why when I checked for the first […]
Some swell but onshore with it
Hello Friends, Into the grey and showery zone again. Well, the gardens can use it, even if it does mean unappetizing surf conditions. We do actually have a little more energy around than this time yesterday. It came up a bit in the afternoon and seems to have persisted overnight. Unfortunately, along with the drippy […]