thinking out loud

Hello Friends,

There were three bods in the water at Dee Why point and one or two up the beach when I  rubbed the sleep from my eyes at 0645. After a longish wait and quite a few false starts, the chap on the standup paddleboard finally caught a tiny crumbler along the rocks. It fizzed away after a few metres and he glided to a stop. Pretty much sums up the conditions I’d say.

If you want to get technical, the Sydney region is currently seeing a metre or so of 7 sec average period east windswell. Dee Why really isn’t much of an east windswell spot, so before giving up, I’d have a look at spots with better exposure to the direction. There were a few small ones from mid Collaroy to Northy yesterday and both Manly and Curly had some weak little things on offer.

Outlook for the rest of the working week is not terribly exciting. More of the same, I’d say. But there is some hope for a small improvement at the weekend. Some of the models are then showing what looks like a little east coast low brewing up for Monday or thereabouts. The usual caveats apply…

Had a chat with film maker and the generally irrepressable  Tim Bonython yesterday about the kick off tonight of his 2007 Australian Surf Movie Festival at Bondi Pavillion tonight. Tim’s supplied me with a few clips to put up on realsurf.tv for you. I managed to put his promo reel up last night and in coming days will put up more samples. Some gobsmacking stuff from Shipsterns and Ours.

And, on a completely different note, I’ve also put up a clip from a curious little project called Musica Surfica. It involves passionate surfer and  violin maestro Richard Tognetti, Tom Carroll, Derek Hynde and finless boards at King Island.

Have yourself a top old day!

Hello Friends

Did you get a few of those little ones yesterday afternoon Sydneysiders?  Not much in the morning but it built up into the fun range by the close of play. The buoy data looks pretty much the same again this morning, but when I watched it for awhile around 7 ish, there was really only a single wave through the Dee Why end of the beach and that was at the point. It’s only 8 second windswell, but at least it’s averaging around two metres from the east where the Sydney MHL buoy is bobbing about.

General outlook for the next 24 hours is for the juice level to fade just about to flat by tomorrow afternoon. Happily, the models show Huey stirring slightly for east coasters late Thursday into Friday and into the weekend. Doesn’t look like it’ll be big or anything, but with luck Friday-Saturday ought to be around the waist to chest high plus range.

Sydney looks to be in for a pleasant day, with highs along the coast around 28. Bureau’s posted the UV alert of 10 for the period 0850 to 1620.

May your day go well!

Hello Friends,

Bit of wind about this morning and a few dark clouds heading out to sea as the blue skies fill in behind. Surf situation is pretty marginal - again. The east windswell is flopping in at a gutless 7 seconds or so and around a metre at sea. Saw one bod struggling to catch something at the  point and then apparently giving up to just prone one in. There still isn’t much of anything in the charts to encourage one either. As far as the east coast is concerned, it looks like another week of similar conditions to these. There is a slight hope that we might get some longer period stuff from the NE toward the end of the week, but one doesn’t get too excited about forecasts that far out.

Speaking of wind, the call is for NE at 20-30 kts early, swinging NW and easing to 15-20 ahead of similar strength SW change. Tomorrow should see the SW first up but then it will go around through the east to the NE in the afternoon.

Have yourself a top old day!