Apr
27
2007
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It was a cloudy afternoon, but it had been glassy all day and there was a little bit of SE swell around. So, PB and I saddled up and headed to Mona Vale on the basis of a hot tip from my mate Max.
There were some little waves, including a few into the shoulder high range, so out we went. I shot a few for your amusement and also got a sequence of huge school of mullet that came in while we were out there. Never have I seen so many at once. The water was black with them… we were all wondering if they’d been herded there by something bigger… but didn’t see anything…
Apr
27
2007
Hello Friends,
The coffee went on pretty late around here (crook kiddie and all that entails)so here’s the latest. We still have some little glassy things wandering in from the SE at about 9 seconds apart. It’s averaging just under 2 metres out at sea but by the time its running along the rocks at Dee Why or standing up over the banks at No Man’s, the faces are struggling to make chest high. Not a tremendous amount of power, but there’s enough to get the equipment up and running for a few seconds at least.
The sky has pulled on her best grey livery in anticipation of a bit of rain later this afternoon and overnight. That means the woofy water situation will be reinforced into the new week.
Looks like the NSW coast is going into another week of marginal conditions - unlike WA. SW WA is facing up to some pretty seriously huge conditions, as is Bali and Indo later this weekend and into the new week. While we’re grovelling in knee high conditions out east, they are going to be looking at very long period, very large swell out of an intense Indian Ocean low. The wind will be a serious factor however.
Well, a couple phone calls later, I’m finally getting this online… sorry so late kids.
Go well with your day!
Apr
26
2007
Hello Friends,
Looks like there are some fun little waves in the Sydney region, but they aren’t to be found everywhere because the south east swell is about 9 sec apart and therefore not refracting all that much into corners. Dee Why beach has reasonable size (see pic) but it’s almost all shutdowns. The point is less consistent, but showing some interesting moments.
Outlook according to the models is for the trend to be maintained across today and into tomorrow morning for our region.
Wind is due to stay 10-15 kts SW all day.
Apparently we should enjoy the sunshine this morning, because there could be a little more rain to come late today and overnight into tomorrow morning. Which brings me to the obvious topic, namely water quality. I live up the catchment for Dee Why and my little rain gauge shows that we got 110mm from the storm. That means we’ve had a fair old run-off and yesterday the water at Dee Why looked foul. The sun will help, but it would be stupid to go surfing with an open wound or a dodgy immune system under the circumstances.
Couple of other notes, as you may have noticed we’ve got some more vid content up in our news section. If you want to watch a little of what was happening yesterday at DY surfwise, have a squiz at my latest effort. And then there’s RealSurf roving reviewer Adam’s rather professionally turned out chat with Luke Egan.
Finally, the old hands may recall many moons and iterations of RealSurf ago, we had a little thing called the Crystal Ball on the site. The idea was to plumb the RealSurf groupmind for the consensus on surf prospects for tomorrow. Well, I’ve long wanted to revive it and yesterday I came across an interesting little script that kinda works for the task. I’ll try it out today to see what you collectively think…
Go well with your day!