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Sunny, windy and small for Saturday

dee why surfer

Hello Friends, Tide was just about at the 0720 low when I grabbed a few snaps of the surf doings this morning. Only half a dozen people in the water from Marquesas to Northy as the sun peeped over the horizon. Wave faces looked to be bigger at the southern end where I saw one […]

Manly, Northy pics

Around 0900 I checked Manly and then North Narrabeen (via Curly) As you can see from the pictures below, Manly was pretty awful. Hardly anyone in the water there, and around at Curly there were only a scattering of folks right up at the north end. Conditions were raw and messy and although there was […]

Sunny Tuesday morning, but near waveless

Dee Why

Hello Friends, A beautiful morning in Sydney. Bit nippy to start, but skies are clear and wind was lightly from the W-WNW. Alas, there were no waves to be seen when I scanned the beach for the first time around 0630. Looking at the MHL data from 0500, there was about 1.5 metre, 12-sec SSE […]

Tiny but clean

Hello Friends, Light winds and about a 1.5 metres of 11 second period SSE swell were not delivering much for Dee Why as we approached the 0815 high tide under mostly cloudy skies. However, the Bureau is still saying that we can expect the swell to bump up around midday and to stick around at […]

At last, a little pulse

Hello Friends, Get in early to beat the southerly change. Swell’s showing around 1.5m from the SSE at close to 11 seconds apart. Wind was light early so the surface was smooth for the waist to chest high sets turning up at Dee Why. The swell isn’t quite big enough to make the point do […]