With the plethora of white shark sightings at Bondi, plus a flat, rainy winter forecast, what better time to skip town, chase some warmth and change the scenery? Today we’re in Singapore – or Singapura, meaning “Lion City” in Malay. Constant 33°C heat and 31°C water make for a pretty nice escape from a Bondi […]

For the third day in a row, the DroneSharkApp Guardian in the sky has spotted a sunrise white shark cruising around North Bondi. This one seems to have settled into the Bondi lifestyle, hanging around the northern end where the water’s clear and the fish are plentiful. Makes you wonder… have they always been coming […]

On Monday I had a bit cut off my face, and the doc’s instructions were simple: stay out of the ocean for a while. Normally I’d chuck a wobbly. I’m in the water almost every day. But this week? I’m strangely OK with it. There’s some unsettling stuff happening out there. For the second day […]

The shark alarm sounded at 7:05am at Bondi this morning. Within minutes, the lifeguards were on the rescue ski clearing everyone out of the water after spotting a white shark cruising close to shore. Pretty scary stuff. One of my boys was out there at the time, and the shark came in close. It makes […]

Nice to wake up in Bondi and finally see some enticing waves this morning. It was cold though. My phone said 10 degrees, but with the wind chill it felt closer to 8. Between the cold and the late sunrise, Bondi was a sleepy old town today. The waves have arrived courtesy of a little […]

It’s so dark in the mornings. We’re only two days off the winter solstice, basically the darkest mornings of the year. Makes it hard to get anything done before skirting off to work, don’t ya reckon? No matter, because there are NO WAVES today. I’m calling it. Uncontestable. Good to see the ambitious Scots surf […]

The ocean’s looking more like the Med than our usual roaring Pacific. Energy-less, bumpless, windless. Just calm. Good morning for a swim and snaps underwater! After a brief smudge of pink at sunrise, the sky slipped back to grey. Oddly enough, we’re in for a warm one, around 22 degrees. Easily the warmest day of […]

The swell has eased again. It’s even smaller than yesterday, and it’ll be smaller again tomorrow. A tiny 1–2 ft wave peeled through around Ramp 2 this morning. Technically surfable, but there wasn’t much punch behind it. The sunrise was a beauty. It arrived late, so plenty of you probably caught it. Short-lived, but colourful. […]

Such a glorious day outside. Sunshine is in abundance, and a small pulse of south swell has finally brought waves. Yes, waves! I spotted clean waist to shoulder high sets this morning, groomed by a light 10 knot NNW offshore. It’s about as good as we’ve seen for a while. No rain today (Dang!) and […]

1 foot, onshore, mushy grey skies… lucky us. Eerily quiet down at Bondi this morning. Kind of typical for a winter Monday, but there also felt like there was something else hanging in the air after Saturday’s devastating shark attack at Coogee. A young mum was attacked while swimming between the flags, in crystal clear […]

The default setting for Bondi lately seems to be grey skies, tiny onshore dribble and one-foot waves. Not exactly inspiring conditions for a sunrise photographer. This morning’s shoot was ordinary at best, so rather than force-feed you today’s photos, I went digging through the archives. Rewind to April 2018. Some of you might remember this […]

Quite an uneventful morning down there. The surf was pretty lame, and so was the sunrise. No colour, no light show, just dark, gloomy skies and the odd 1–2 footer wobbling through the bay. It does feel a touch warmer than previous mornings. Icebergs is getting a clean-up, the lineup was relatively empty, and even […]

What the waves lacked, the sunrise made up for. Cracker this morning — did you see it? I’ve got little sunrise spies planted everywhere, feeding me intel when the sky’s about to go mad. Today, the spies were bang on: plenty of high cloud, plenty of colour, all around 6:40am… and it barely lasted a […]

A nice, sunny start to the week in Bondi. Crisp, cool air, 1-2 footers and a very quiet morning down there. While waves are technically breaking, I wouldn’t say they’re good enough to motivate most people to squeeze into a wettie and paddle out, especially after a long weekend. Geez, there’s a lot of construction […]

Oh man, it’s tiny. Like someone pulled the plug out of the wave machine this week. It looks more like a lake than an ocean down there. But Sydney is a wild place. In less than 24 hours, a solid south swell is expected to march into Bondi, exploding onto the banks, closing out sections, […]

It’s pretty much flat out there, with howling offshore westerlies sweeping across the beach. A beautiful day nonetheless. The skies are crisp and clean, the water sparkling, and there’s a definite chill in the air. It’s only 19 degrees, but it feels much cooler. This weekend we’ll dip into single digits for the first time […]

Like it always does, winter arrived in a hurry. One day it’s boardshorts and warm mornings, the next it’s June 1 and everyone’s digging out the down jackets. The seasonal switch has been flicked. Cold mornings, chilly sea breezes and that awkward sprint across the sand back to the car park. The ocean looked completely […]

Today marks the first day of winter, and there are definitely pros and cons to the seasonal shift. The pros? Winter generally delivers better waves. You can surf most days, the crowds thin out considerably, and not many people are keen to brave those icy westerlies before sunrise. The light is incredible too – clean, […]