Small surf Sydney Sunday
Hello Friends, Everybody in! Hot day and at least it’s not totally flat. We’re set for the usual NE wind as the day gets going, but for the early risers conditions were smooth everywhere. Only two problems. First, the swell has faded away to a weak, short period, waist high NE windswell. And second, the […]
Little again but not flat
Hello Friends, Swell faded pretty abruptly yesterday and this morning sees small to very small conditions. It’s looking like waist high with the odd bigger one at Dee Why beach. The little windswell is coming out of the NE and the breeze was light early, so there just may be spots with better exposure […]
Gotta love technology
Hello Friends, I was up in plenty of time to write my report for you, but the computer gods decided we need a poke apparently. Anyway, we’re back now, so I can now tell you that it’s very small and weak. Swell’s out of the NE at about a metre with an average period of […]
Aw, c’mon Huey
Hello Friends, From the look of the latest MHL data for the east coast, we’re back to marginal conditions from Eden to Byron. Here in Sydney the buoy is showing around a metre of 7 second period NE windswell. As my picture of Kiddies illustrates, Dee Why’s not exactly a magnet for these particular conditions. […]
Bracing for the heat
Hello Friends, Are we all ready for the heat? The good news from out here on the coast is that the water is a beautiful 22-23 degrees and there are some little waves. You’ll need to get to a stretch of beach with good exposure to the NE though. Windswell is averaging around a metre […]
Friday and where we were
Hello Friends, According to the latest data from the MHL Sydney buoy, yesterday’s little windswell is still hanging around. Yesterday afternoon it moved around from the east more to the NE. The average size bumped up from around a metre to maybe 1.5 metres and the period’s about 7 seconds. The practical consequence of these […]
Settings unchanged
Hello Friends, Just as the early-rising Rob reports, the waves are just as they were yesterday morning. I saw the Goat yesterday evening and he hasn’t changed his view about our prospects for this weekend and the week ahead. In a word, his call is for weak. This morning’s microness at Dee Why is exactly […]
Beautiful Sunday morning
Hello Friends, Swell seems to have backed off as anticipated but I did see at least one little one come into the beach at Dee Why when grabbed the pic. However, I’m reasonably confident that it was an unusually good one because I didn’t see another for the rest of the time I watched. Certainly […]
Sunny Monday
ARVO UPDATE: Had to run an errand or two so, as usual, took a camera with me (Pansonic’s solidly built TZ-2) and grabbed a snap at Longy. Very tiny conditions but the water sure looked like a nice place to be on such a hot day. Only a few people scattered along a smattering of […]
Snooze and you still don’t lose
Hello Friends, Well, what can I say? Huey’s wandered off to some other corner of the planet and left our swell machine sputtering to a stop. The Sydney MHL buoy is showing about a metre of 7 sec NE windchop. And from the look of the other buoy data along the east coast, it’s pretty […]