BBR
A fantastic supply of easterly swell rolling into Sydney this morning. With grooming offshores most beaches looked super fun. Low crowds too!
Sadly, a week of rain to come. It will begin this arvo and get heavy for most of the week. Even the northern rivers will get a dowsing, so let’s really hope there’s no more flash flooding.
Bondi Board Riders ran their first event of the year yesterday. It’s great to see so many young shredders coming through the ranks (and finally waves on comp day).
Have a great week!
:: uge
Leftovers
The surf was smaller, dribbly but still clean at sunrise. The clouds are dark (std) and threatening whilst the winds are lightly blowing onshore. As you all know, rain forecast for today, tomorrow and another week (oh the joy). avagoodweekend! :: uge
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Default settings
And just like that, the weather defaults back to a dark rainy morning in Sydney. Surely those clouds are depleted! At 7:30 am it was so dark you’d be convinced it was still nighttime. There’s a little grovelly wave on offer, south end. Looked a little junkie for my liking. The water remains a warm […]
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Smotherly
The predicted southerly is here, and doing its thing – smothering! Bondi had small junkie waves – with a handful of guys out. At 6am it looked like the sunrise was gonna be magical – before a large cloud parked right in the middle of it. Patchy weather is forecasted for days as this prolonged […]
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Reopening
The ocean is clean again! No more gagging on the pooey browns from recent floodwaters – I see mighty-fine blue-greens once again. The sunshine was blanketing the beaches as the swell produced head high peaks. Gentle winds, currently 7 knots from the north. High tide midday, low was 6am. Lots of people up early this […]
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Promise
This morning was one of those that nearly got there – but didn’t. The sunrise had promise, clouds in the right spot but it just didn’t bloom as anticipated. The cloud bank just got thicker and thicker – blocking the potential of a postcard morning. The surf looked clean and the supply of swell was […]
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Gilded Light
One of the main reasons I shoot daily is capturing the golden light that seeps over Ben Buckler in the mornings. I love it. It’s very flattering light, making the mundane into something appealing. When it’s been raining or cloudy for 85% of the mornings this year, these sunny mornings are a treat! Let’s party! […]
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23 years
Twenty-three years ago, I had this groundbreaking idea of posting a ‘photo a day’ from the beach. Social media hadn’t even been dreamt up yet, a website called google had just started, and mobile phones were for talking to people. In the nineties, digital cameras had just become semi-affordable (well, kind of – the first […]
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scuzzy valley
When I was a kid, we’d surf Bali a lot. I can remember one day we saw an empty a-frame on the outer Kuta Reef, and 3 of us frothed out there – thinking we scored (everywhere else was packed). It was pumping and broke in the same spot consistently – 800 metres from the […]
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Brown Water
Is it safe to go in the water? Well… it’s incredibly brown and smells funny after all the flooding. There’s quite a bit of sewerage in our harbour ways and oceans right now – so it’s really up to you. I’ve been surfing (good waves on the weekend), but I make sure I don’t drink it […]
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Temperamental
I’ve returned from the outback and did my morning rituals down at Bondi – the weather is still volatile, just like when I spilt town. Indeed…surely, the clouds are now spent? Sydney has had its wettest 16-day period on record (617.4mm) – half of our average rainfall (1213mm). Still, nothing compared to our devasted northern […]
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Silver City
Sunshine? Yeah, you bet – but I had to go 1000 clicks inland to find it, well away from the coastal drenchings this week. Where? Broken Hill or ‘The Silver City’ (as it is sometimes called) is a city forged out of a hill that consists of almost pure silver, lead and zinc. Broken Hill […]
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intermission
On Saturday, we had a brief pause from the rain – what a treat! I hope you finally got outside without the gumboots. The waves also cleaned up on the weekend, and most of Sydney was on the cook. Today – well, today…it’s back to 15 knots of southeasterly onshore and a large storm saturating Sydney. […]
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