Archive for November, 2009
Pretty Good…
Friday, November 27th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
A great little swell came today – normally it would have gone unnoticed with the Noreaster changing it to mush but we were blessed with all day westerlies that groomed the 2-3ft waves (with 4ft bombs at some locations) into perfection .
There were waves all day with barrels to be had at a few locations. The crowd pressure was pretty mellow. With daylight savings hopefully everyone got their share before or after work…
The rest of the days shots can be viewed in the “sessions” link to the right.
There is some big SE swell predicted for Tuesday/Wednesday to welcome in summer….
Clean
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
There have been some alright days in the last week with a bit of wind swell making for 2ft waves here and there. The best thing has been the water – the temp is up a couple of degrees and it is just super clear. The underwater visibility is pretty much as good as it gets around here.
If you have been lucky and found the right break you may have scored some fun little waves. There have been some arvo semi glass-offs and some pretty still mornings making for some fun little sessions.
There weren’t too many options other than takin’ it easy and just enjoying the last week of spring
Making the most of it
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Hasn’t been too much going since our 17 second period joy from the south a week ago. Just some 2ft wind swell for the wave hungry to feed on. The water clarity is quite amazing at the moment too.
Seventeen seconds
Monday, November 16th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Don’t worry about wave heights. It’s period that counts. A long period swell means each wave carries the energy of a powerful storm system from thousands of kilometres and a couple of days away. It’s not often that we get a 17 second period on the east coast of Australia. It needs a pretty intense storm system way down south of New Zealand to generate a groundswell of that magnitude.
Unfortunately when the swell arrived, it was with a New Moon high tide and as that drew out through the morning the Nor’easter really kicked in. This limited the options. By the time I committed to a shoot location the swell had backed off, the clouds had come and the wind was just a bit too strong offshore…
Check the rest of the shots in sessions and have a look at what Clarrie shot a bit earlier…
Sessions
A few images…