Debbie does…
Debbie is coming to town. She’s gonna take over. The deluge is just kicking off now as I write to you. The winds will hoooooowwwwl at 30 knots (from 2 pm today). Temperatures will drop into the afternoon and your garden is going to get a good dowsing. There was some NE swell at sunrise, in […]
Coverage
Well…today’s another cracker. The swell is still here. Good times people. Good times. Great news. Next week should be similar…3 foot and decent winds – so no need to rush down. You’re probably watching Bell’s anyway. The SurfAid Cup is coming to Bondi! Yes! The fund raising surf comp is natively a Northern Beaches thing, […]
Mild
Really mild conditions in Sydney at the moment. The days aren’t that cold…the water is warm (20). Odd for this time of year. The waves are hibernating today…and tomorrow you should see a swell increase (wind swell only which is short lived). It is going to rain for sure… The One Wave crew are getting […]
My Mission
I take photos every day. That’s been my calling in life for some time now. Some days are more photogenic than others. Some days I’ve got the trigger finger on flat biccie – like Tony Montana in the final scenes of Scarface. Sometimes I labor over the shots…trying all kinds of fancy dance work to […]
Inbound
Looks at these photos and tell me if you think you will be surfing this arvo? It’s half a foot now, but boy, she’s about to erupt. They say by lunchtime you will see it pulse and by nightfall we should have 8 foot. Sometimes swells don’t run on schedule…hope this one does. Tomorrow will […]
Currents
It was only 6 degrees before the sun rose…nippy huh? The water is perfectly fine, just that dash across the sand can be a lil’ fresh. There are waves! Good ones. At sunrise I saw some luscious right hand tubes on a shallow south bank. Looks like the rip is on turbo and creating some […]
Paradise
After nearly two weeks of back to back swells in the Mentawais it’s finally gone flat. Good timing really as we are heading home with sore shoulders and good memories. One of the best trips I’ve had up here with superb weather and waves 11 days out of 12. This afternoon we parked the boat […]
Island Style
The Mentawais are a chain of seventy islands and islets off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. The area is littered with world class waves which nearly all break on sharp coral reefs. There is more than 100 surf breaks in the area. I’ve been here 15 times and still seeing new setups (especially […]
SO-SO
It was a pretty standard autumn morning down at Bondi. A small choppy, south wind-swell is in town and waves got up to head high on sets. It looked a little bumpy and random…totally surfable though. The wonder bank at south of Bondi has been dismantled…oh boy Friday and Saturday were fun at Bondi – […]
Hi Vis
Even though it was a dark grey morning nothing like a bit of fluoro from the One Wave crew to brighten things up. Today is “One Wave is all it takes” 1st birthday and by the look of the incredible turn out they’re going strong. About 100 fluoro warriors took over South Bondi for an […]
Inviting
The swell has kicked around to the East providing a few more options today. It’s still tiny yet surfable. I saw waves break around waist high with the odd set in the vicinity of shoulder high. Regardless, the windless conditions and warm water should be enough to motivate you. Bondi was in a very good […]
B E F O R E
You’ve probably already heard through global news that there is a MONSTER swell hitting the Hawaiian Islands right now. I’m getting messages from all over the place wondering what it looks like here. To be honest I don’t know what all the fuss is about. When I went for my morning coffee down the road, […]
Dank
The strange muggy weather continues today. At least it’s damp with 2-3 footers. Bondi was nice and clean and relatively uncrowded for a weekday morning. I saw a few nice ones in the middle and in the corner. I am hoping tomorrow will be bigger and better. It’s gonna rain later and for the rest […]