thinking out loud

Hello Friends,

Yep, it’s pretty bad up in Byron too. We just checked the pass and the Wreck (didn’t bother with Tallow because of the wind direction), and I can report that it is extremely small to just about flat. Maybe a dozen or so optimists out at the Pass where every 15 mins or so a knee to waist high bomb rolls through. The Wreck was similar, but cleaner and not bumpy.

Skies up this way are grey and sullen, not the picture of the last couple days. So, we’re pointing our noses south very shortly. If we come across anything even mildly interesting, I’ll file an update - after all, we’ve got 10 hours in the car ahead of us, so there’ll be plenty of time to laboriously key a report into my phone!

I’ve posted a short little vid for you from yesterday at Lennox. Sadly my camera battery died after we’d only been in the water for an hour, so I never did get any shots of the bigger ones. Definitely the highlight of the trip that sesh.

Go well and get up to some good where you can!

Hello Friends,

Went for a surf this morning at the Pass in Byron. Very small, but very fun with a mal. Folks at the top of the point were getting the odd chest high set wave, but they tended to peter out by the time they reached that last rock on the inside. PB figured out that if we went down more towards Johnsons, we could catch these tiny little lumps (knee high on the takeoff) that would then stand up to about waist high as they rifled along the edge of a very long bank. I was just hanging out on the front 1/3 of my board on most of them. Short boards were not happening at all under the conditions.

We had a look earlier at the open beaches south from Tallow (near where we’re staying). But the quality was strictly ordinary and no one was in the water. Kinda fat little waist high lumps flopping listlessly over. Very photogenic sky though.

From the look of the charts, the abject flatness of Sydney seems likely to last until the weekend when, wonder of wonders, there appears to be general agreement amongst the models that we will get a pulse of south swell. On current reckoning, it should start to fill into the Sydney region from about Saturday am and last through close of play on Sunday night. Monday looks set to return to small and weak conditions. By that stage, the swell will have marched up the coast and be lighting up the likes of Crescent, Anga, Lennox, etc with some nice fat wintry lines.

Have yourself a good one, and go well!

Hello Friends,

Be strong east coast surfers. Huey will return. I know it doesn’t look that way at the moment, particularly here in Sydney, but this miserable flat spell too will pass into history.

Today’s outlook for our region is light NE-NW wind of 5-10 kts with a SE swell at sea of less than a metre at about 8 seconds apart. From the look of the realtime data from MHL, these conditions prevail from east of Philip Island around to the sunshine coast.

The forecast models are uniformly pessimistic about our chances of an improvement any time soon. Right now they’re calling for short period, very small conditions through Weds. The long range models are calling for a little south swell to materialise early Thursday - but for it to fade back to flat by Friday evening.

Have yourself a top old day anyway, go for a walk, get in for a paddle, and enjoy it all for what it is.