Small south swell showing Saturday
Hello Friends, The Goat called it. This morning looks like being about as clean and good as it gets for the next few days. It’s another win for you early risers because with a high tide arriving late this morning, the little 1.5 metre, 10 second south swell may be swamped out of existence most […]
Midday update: still a trickle
Went for a paddle at Dee Why point just before lunch. It was marginal to say the least but it’s so nice to be in the water at the moment. After getting out, I trundled over the hill to have a look at the mighty Curly. Shoulda gone out there I guess. Oh well. It […]
Dusk report
Hello Friends, Kept an eye on the wind all day, hoping there might be a glass off for the late. It didn’t really smooth off enough for my taste, but the wind was lighter and there were plenty of folks in the water along the Dee Why to Longy stretch. Bigger set wave faces were […]
Afternoon update
A few snaps to share from this morning. At around 0845 I checked out Northy to see if there might be a wave from the SE swell. Hardly anyone was there, and for good reason. The waits were extremely long, the sets only had one wave and they were pretty weak looking. I got a […]
Lumpy but clean looking in the semi-protected corners
Hello Friends, Just wanted to give you the benefit of a little run-around conducted by yours truly this morning. Went down to north Curly first to see what the NE windswell was doing. There were a few people in the water chasing some occasionally head high plus peaks. The problem is that the period is […]
Very small at east spots, flat elsewhere
Hello Friends, Dripping skies this morning and still a little bit of east swell. Not too big, but you should find up to waist high at those places that have picked up something over the last couple days. If your favourite stretch of beach doesn’t pick up east swell, you can forget finding anything. The […]
Little waves to be had if you’re keen
Hello Friends, At about midnight the swell tracked around to the south off Sydney. At the same time it ramped quickly from less than a metre to almost 2.5 metres. All good, but for one essential detail: the average period is a mere 7 seconds (with a few into the 8 sec range). Wind was […]
Even colder this morning, but sunny all day
Hello Friends, Only a few characters willing to brave the single digit temp this morning to get in for the early at Dee Why. Rideable sets are pretty far apart now, so those hardy types were doing a fair amount of waiting for the chest high bombs. Wind was offshore and it looks set to […]
PICS: Dee Why beach, stormy Saturday
Happened to be driving by Dee Why around lunchtime when the cloud cover lifted and the light started looking better. A messy south windswell was being mined out for moments of fun by a reasonable size crew. The air was really cold, but the last of the weird warm water was still on hand. So […]
Faded but not flat
Hello Friends, Swell energy has dropped back quite a bit since this time yesterday. Swell is currently around the metre mark with an average period of 8 seconds. On the plus side, it’s moved a touch more to the SSE, so that may help slightly. There was a smallish crew waiting at Dee Why point […]