DAILY POSTS

I'm starting to wonder if we'll ever see offshore conditions again. I've been holding on to a thread of hope that I'll wake up one morning to a light offshore and an ocean groomed smooth and silky. It's been a while…

It's the second day of summer and it sure feels like it out there. The sun is beaming at full strength and we've got some punchie, short-period wind swell from the nor'east. It's about as typical a Sydney summer's day…

Another warm, steamy morning. It's much the same as yesterday and the day before although there's a little more west in the wind today; not that it's puffing strong enough to blow away the humid salty air that's hanging over the beach.

Everyone's flocking to the water this morning to cool the body and rinse off the steamy night and warm start to the day. It didn't drop below 20 degrees all evening…

We're in for a warm one, in fact it's going to be a warm couple of days in Sydney and surrounds. Thirty plus today, tomorrow and the next day; even hotter if you're anywhere out of reach of the cooling sea-breeze.

Nice little pop of colour as the sun pushed through some clouds scattered about the horizon this morning. From cloudy beginnings, there's no shortage of sunshine out there at the moment; beats yesterday's drizzly start to the day! There is however a real shortage…

It's a rare occasion indeed when you overlook Freshwater and don't see a single person on the beach. This morning it was just footprints, the tidal soakings of sand, and a couple of tiny figures way off at the other end…

Yesterday afternoon's late change in weather is still lingering and the effects are paying dividends on the surf front. The combination of howling northerlies most of Sunday and light offshore winds today means we've got…

The sunshine was brief this morning but it coincided with a light puff of offshore wind giving the very beginning of the day a glimmer. Waves were small and clean, the sun was shinning and it looked like we were in for a goodie...

Not too bad, half decent and kind of ok out there this morning. The swell's up from the east and while it was wobbly early thanks to overnight wind and an early high tide, it seems to have cleaned…

A greyscale kind of a morning with a cool sou'wester and just enough east swell to percolate some interest. I had pretty low expectation and judging by the early crowd the sentiment must have been shared. But there were…

Too warm and humid to sleep in this morning; not that I've been doing much of that lately. Outside the air was thick and steamy with the temperature nudging towards 22 degrees at 5am, no wonder everyone…

It was warm out there this morning, almost like a summer's morning except for the hint of sou-westerly that was keeping conditions smooth and glassy. There wasn't even enough of a breeze to disperse the salty haze…

It's hard to get a handle on the winds at the moment. There's been overnight onshore's, dawn ruffles and brief moments of offshores as the wind fluctuates before the summer trades set in. I thought I was doing myself a favour by getting up super early…

A thoroughly pleasant morning out on the ocean this morning. The waves weren't pumping by any means but the water is warming, it's clean & clear and the spring sunshine was plentiful. And, while it may not have been…

After three days of east swell it feels like this morning it's finally sorted itself out. There's still a degree of a wonkiness to the swell but the good ones are hitting the banks on target and it's as clean as it gets…

These kind of days, when all indications are for great conditions but it's just not happening, always present a conundrum. Go now and take what's on offer? Or roll the dice and see what later brings. My schedule forced the former…