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Pics by Don: Saturday South Narra tow-ins, North Narra smokin’, Manly styling

If Friday was astounding, Saturday was every bit as good! I started proceedings by shooting a tow-in crew working the otherwise unmakeable shutdowns along South Narrabeen from about 0800 to 0850. Then it was on to Northy to shoot the very substantial crowd surfing in essentially perfect conditions. If you were in the water there […]

It’s big, real big and pretty clean too

Hello Friends, Swell has arrived right on schedule this morning. We’re probably looking at the peak about now and as the day rolls along it should begin to subside noticeably – but it won’t be going flat. Wind is set to be light and out of the south and southwest early before going more NE […]

PICS Mona Vale as good as it gets Wed 11 Aug

Mona Vale was my last stop on this amazing surf day in Sydney. It was about as good as I’ve ever seen it too. Honing lefts, some going for well over a hundred metres, and lots and lots of thunderous barrels. The crowd on it was going nuts and needless to say my shutter button […]

What an afternoon

Hello Friends, Hope you got in this afternoon. Shoulda been good lots of places. Your loyal correspondent blew off work for a couple hours to join roughly half the population of Dee Why on an astoundingly good low tide peak (and the point was kinda fun too). I’m giving the best sets 9/10 – hard […]

Wonderful Wednesday

RealSurf’s Don puts up a selection of pictures from an exceptional day of surf on Sydney’s northern beaches.

vid from the beach

Made this vidcast from Gardens late this morning… and here are a couple pics from then…

It’s a wrap: Wednesday considered

Hello Friends, What a rollercoaster! This morning started out misty, cool and windy. I began the day with a check out run down to look at south Narrabeen. Swell at that stage was out of the east at 4 metres at about 8 seconds apart. The wind was SW though, so although the picture taking […]

It’s pumping in Sydney

Hello Friends,   It seems to be going off. I’d go to the beach at once if I could… Swell is coming from the SE now and is ranging from three to 5 metres at sea. The power setting is 11 to 13 seconds and there’s almost no wind as I write this. The Bureau […]

late arvo update, updated!

Hi all, Spent a couple hours in the water, wrote off a camera which sadly I can’t afford to replace. Oh well, looks like it recorded 40 wave vids before it passed on… Dee Why, like lots of other spots was firing this morning and through lunch time. Pulse only lasted about 12 hours and […]