Seventeen seconds
Monday, November 16th, 2009 | Uncategorized
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…