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Little waves about this morning

long reef lagoon surfing

Hello Friends, A few snaps from the Saturday morning circumnavigation of the Plateau to check the surf situation for my weekly radio gig on 702 ABC… Skies were cloudy but temps were comparatively mild and the wind was minimal. The MHL buoy was picking up about 1.3 metres of 13-second SSE swell at 0600. Set […]

Clean knee high wavelets

Hello Friends, Swell’s cogged down another touch since yesterday, so the best early risers could expect were knee to waist high wave faces at magnet spots. Northy was picking up a little, but not the rest of the beach down to Collaroy. There were small, clean mal/SUP-able little lines from Longy to about the SLSC, […]

Few and far between but waves still

Hello Friends, About a metre of E-ESE wind swell with an average period of close to 9 seconds washing into Sydney as Saturday got started. Surface conditions were glassy to start and skies were mostly clear. Water’s around the 23 mark. Set wave faces at the magnets (eg Northy and the Pole) were in the […]

Smooth but small early

Hello Friends, Mix of NE and SSW wind swell this morning was producing knee to waist plus wave faces. Wind was light SW early and although it’s not supposed to pick up too dramatically, it will come around to the SE as the day goes along. MHL buoy is showing about 1.5 metres at 8 […]

A midday gallery

When the skies unexpectedly cleared, I decided to jump in the beautiful warm water for a quick sesh at the Pole. Nothing to write home about really, but the water is beautiful and it didn’t seem to be much affected by run-off. Waves were in the waist to chest range and seemed to have an […]

Interesting long period possibilities

Midday update: Watched the point, Dee Why and up to Longy for about an hour late this morning. There were head high waves at the point and only 10 people out – the only problem was that those waves were turning up about every 20 mins, and they were one at a time. To put […]

A few pics from this morning at DY and Northy

Hello Friends, Funny thing happened between posting the report and my getting down to Dee Why this morning… seemed like the swell decided it really wanted to go play somewhere else because there were some long lulls for the crew. Definitely a few keepers though, particularly if your craft of choice was a lid. Word […]

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 […]

Arvo seshes to be had

NNE wind going along at standard issue summer strength on a warm afternoon in Sydney. Exposed spots were blown out, but a semi-sheltered option could provide some fun and diversion as the 1.5 metre, 7 sec NE wind swell sorted itself into lines. I saw Warriewood, Little Narra and Northy around 330pm and while the […]