Waves but wind coming up early
Hello Friends, Wind out of the north for the early risers this morning. Swell was coming from the NE at around 10 seconds apart with an average height at sea of about 2 metres. Surface conditions were rapidly moving from textured to bumpy within an hour of sunrise. Bureau says 10-15 kts NE, so if […]
Small waves about this morning
Hello Friends, Nothing special, but definitely a few waist high bumps and lumps around the place this morning as the swell fades away and the tide drops. Big issue, apart from the declining swell energy, is the wind which the Bureau tells us will be onshore before long first from the east then SE then […]
PICS: Long Reef, the bombies and more
Got out and about with the camera on the morning of Saturday 9 August in the vicinity of Long Reef. Ended up getting pictures of people catching the big ones way out the back on the bombies along with somewhat less dramatic waves inside at Long Reef, the Pole and Dee Why. Click the pics […]
Small and inconsistent but not flat
Hello Friends, On again off again light showers and cool temps seem to have dissuaded the crowds this morning along the beaches between Manly and Dee Why. Of course knee to waist high conditions don’t help much either. Swell, such as it is, is out of the east mainly at about a metre with an […]
Small but surfable many places
Hello Friends, Running a little late this morning, apologies. We still have a few scraps of knee to waist plus SSE swell showing along the beaches this morning. At 0700 the MHL Sydney buoy was recording energy from the south around to the east, but the most focuse stuff was at 131 degrees. It was […]
Better late than never!
Hello Friends, Sorry to wander in so late… went surfin’ this morning and then took pictures and stuff… you know how it is boss. According to the MHL data, Sydney was the biggest region wave wise along the NSW coast at midday. Under sunny skies and with a light offshore, swell was coming in from […]
Swell arrived, hope you got some
Hello Friends, Looked as though everyone was in the water today. I don’t think I’ve seen so many spots so crowded in a very long time. The morning started nearly flat, but by 1100 or so all the south magnet spots were firing up big time. The wind got pretty strong in the middle part […]
Saturday late, starting to perk…
Hello Friends, Had a look at Northy and Long Reef just as the change hit and the wind went more around to offshore. Swell is definitely showing, particularly at well exposed spots like Northy. Heaps of folks in the water, but whadya expect for a hotly anticipated swell – and a weekend? The ominous rumbling […]
Piccies: Manly, Curly, Longy
Nothing too amazing going on at Manly, but there were little longboardable things to be caught mainly in the middle of the beach. Looking at it, I’d guess that as the tide swings about, those options will move around. Up at Curly there were soft and slightly bigger, but junkier peaks pretty much from the […]
Midday update: bigger than expected
Hello Friends, Love it when that happens. It looked minor and weak when I filed my first report today, but when I got down to the beach for some paddling practice, I discovered that the energy levels were starting to go up – a fact confirmed by my mate Ken who was just getting out […]