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Not gone, look around and be realistic

Hello Friends, Grey and chilly as I made the run back from Manly this morning. Swell has slipped another notch down toward unsurfability, but there were definitely still a few waist plus waves to be found from Manly to Dee Why. Wind was light and swell was a touch under the 1.5 metre mark from […]

Down another notch but still a few for the keen

Hello Friends, Near cloudless skies over Sydney as Tuesday got started. Swell has slipped down the power curve again overnight and as of 0600 the MHL buoy was showing 1.4 metres of 12-sec SE swell. It wasn’t doing much at Dee Why when I checked a little after 0700. There were a few bods at […]

So so-so

Hello Friends, This morning sees the swell out of the SSE at a touch under 2 metres at sea with an average period in the neighborhood of 9 seconds. Wind was lightly S to SSW when your correspondent climbed aloft to the crows nest for a look around 0730. Ocean looked pretty bumpy out at […]

Marginal conditions but not flat for the early

Hello Friends, As expected, yesterday’s wind swell has faded overnight. Still, if you were up early and could deal with the fatness imposed by the run up to high tide at 1030, there were some bobbly waist plus sections to be caught at Dee Why. Swell was out of the SE. The MHL buoy off […]

Very scrappy but some size early

Hello Friends, As expected, the wind came around to the S-SSE by 0730 this morning. The ocean was bumpy and lumpy with close to two metres of wind swell coming from the NE at 7 seconds apart, tide was low at 0725 and is now heading to a high at 1235. It should cloud up […]

A few little offerings from Huey this morning

Hello Friends, Warm one coming up but at least there was a little waist to plus NE wind swell coming in for the early. Wind’s set to be northerly this morning and then NE later. Tide was a high high at 0730 and will be back to a low 1415. Dee Why looked kinda lumpy […]

Drizzly beginning

Hello Friends, Wind went SSE to ESE right after daybreak, so although the swell has perked up noticeably, there aren’t going to be too many surf options around the place. The MHL spectra chart shows the main energy coming from the east at two metres and nearly 11 seconds apart. If only it was sunny […]

Curly late morning

Just a couple of snaps of the not hopelessly small or hopelessly gutless little peaks popping up at Curly late this morning…

Back up a little from yesterday

Hello Friends, Energy levels have perked back up a little this morning and whereas you couldn’t really surf yesterday, spots that take SSE should have a bobbly and wobbly little something. Sets look to be in the waist plus range. Swell is showing as nearly two metres from the SSE at a touch over 10 […]

Little waves for the first day of 2014

Happy New Year Friends, Swell’s faded overnight, but I did see at least one set wave in the shoulder high range at Dee Why around 0930. According to the MHL data, at 0600 the main swell energy was coming out of the southeast at about 9 seconds apart. Average size out at sea was 1.5 […]