DAILY POSTS

This morning I took a stroll over the headlands and linked up with the newly opened McTavish Brookvale crew and fair-weather surfer Wispy from the shores of sub-tropical Byron Bay. Wispy loves... 

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The swell we've had for the last couple of weeks seems to have final run out of puff. From mega south swell to a steady stream of east swell, this morning we're looking at a weak short-period NE wind swell. I had a look on both…

This morning caught me by surprise. After watching the green & gold rush on the streets of Paris I wandered out into the Sydney sunrise chuffed but thinking there'd be no waves... but it's amazing what one foot of swel

Another calm and clear morning out there today. The sky had a beautiful dusty pink glow to it before the sun lit up the landscape in soft winter light. There's not a whole heap of swell around but what's on offer seems…

Sensational winter morning out on the ocean today. The feels pretty cool at the moment. The MHL Waverider Buoy has the temp just under 17 degrees but my internal thermometer reckon's it's a touch cooler than that. We're deep…

After last week's death defying surfing and heavy water, it's kind of nice to start the week with a return to mellow, calm energy. Not that there's any lack of waves around, it's just a more user-friendly kind of surfing experience…

We're in the thick of a very solid swell. From lake-like conditions on Sunday, the swell jumped rapidly Monday morning and has since ebbed and flowed between 4 and 5 metres with outlier sets over 10metres! It's real big!

It's a brisk morning out on the sand and another day of waves with some degree of playfulness, depending on your taste. There's a fading ESE swell and building south swell the combination of which seems to be working ok…

What a weekend of waves! Saturday started out picturesque but quickly built to seriously challenging while Sunday was one for the record books. All day offshore, solid, energetic east swell and sandbanks…

It was one of those salubrious winter morning's out there. The sun was shining, the wind offshore and a beautiful little east swell was lighting up banks all along The Beaches. Just about every beach from here to yonder and back…

Absolute bucketloads of sunshine out there today. I've been basking in it shedding the jacket for a t-shirt and soaking up as much of the winter rays as I could handle; vitamin D generation has hit a winter peak. It's been some time…

Hola! It's been a little while between posts. I've been around town although, with a week of flat waves followed by a week of onshore waves, I've been putting the camera down and picking up the framing tools. For those of you…

Really nice morning for a play in the ocean. The clouds added a little colour to the scene before the sun came up to spread warm winter light across the morning. When the air is crisp and clear, the sunlight soft and warm…

Turns out that yesterday was THE DAY out at Deadman's. Monday was merely an entrée and today the leftovers. I saw some epic sets from a distance, some great pictures from the Bower cliffs but I'm yet to see…

The swell is hanging in around the 3-4m mark this morning. While it might have appeared to back off significantly yesterday afternoon, it's ramped back up this morning. In fact, a couple of the sets I saw breaking…

Expectations were riding high this morning. Forecasts were written, elements arrived and in the end it might have been a touch overstated. By all means it's solid. The Port Authority Buoy is showing some serious numbers…

The first round of a double dose of south swell is with us this morning. Most of the energy is marching past us at Manly although what's refracting in seems to be holding up ok on the current sand situation. The Northern Beaches will…