Rainbow Arrays
How amazing were the rainbows down the beach this morning? Every five minutes, a new one sprouted, and I could locate the end of it – North Bondi holds the pot of gold!
Several rain squalls danced across the beach – it’s going to be drier than yesterday (20mm of rainfall). Now we’re watching the next storm, which is arriving from the south.
Waves are enormous at South Bondi (8ft) and wild. No one out. North Bondi had some sheltered options; best sit tight and wait for things to calm down a little.
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Novelty Waves
When the big storms rip through Sydney, the strange novelty waves come a live – that little piece of reef that never works, that protected corner that is always flat or a harbour beach with a half-assembled shark net and the city in the background starts to pipe up! Before you get too excited, the […]
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Rain Bombs
That East Coast Low hasn’t hit Sydney as hard as we thought – yet (we’re not out of the woods). The Bureau of Meteorology says the mass of rain predicted to arrive in Sydney overnight is now likely to land through the middle of today, with six-hourly falls of up to 200mm possible in some […]
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Northern Rivers Relief
You’ve probably seen the devastation of the NSW Northern Rivers and Queensland floods – incredibly sad times and our hearts goes out to everyone up there. Thousands of people are displaced from their homes as towns go under. The footage of Lismore is unfathomable – 14.2 metres! Fortunately, the sun is now out up north […]
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Interminable precipitation
Do you know the best part of Sydney’s raining, erratic weather patterns? Apart from the salt constantly being hosed off your car, we get waves – fun waves! Typically in summer, we have long flat spells where I shoot letterboxes, seagulls and drunk people sleeping on the beach – not 2022. So this year is […]
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Bladerunner
Remember the movie Bladerunner? In every scene, it’s raining. A bit like Sydney. Everywhere I go, I’m wet – soggy. I’ve even stopped wearing shoes in big downpours – and just roll around bare feet. Fun, isn’t it? The postie rocked in with knee-high gumboots – that’s the ticket, clever. There’s a rumour people are […]
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Feb so far…
I saw the sun last night, around 7 pm. I swear. There’s proof of my Instagram stories. It was hot, clear(ish) and beach weather, for about 1 hour…blink and you missed it. #notfakenews When is the rain going to stop? Mid next week, hopefully. Until then, we’re in for a deluge. There are small waves, […]
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Bi-Polar
I have no idea what’s going on today. One minute it’s hot and sunny, the next a typhoon from the north is lashing us. It’s like the stock market – all over the shop – super volatile. I can confirm there are waves suitable for board riding. I saw some head high sets and clean […]
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Twosday
22.2.2022 it’s a palindrome date today – lots of 2’s. Go for a surf at 2:22pm and magic will happen, waves will clean up and barrel, the sun will shine, 2-second tubes to the beach in 22-degree water – and 2 unicorns will wander down the prom. Right now – it sure is ugly down […]
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Inferno
The sunrise colours stole the show this morning. Wow, so intense, so bright. It started pink then shifted to deep golds—quite the spectacle. The waves were less impressive, knee caps to waists, peeling rights lacking grunt. Longboarding, beginners, kids – its your day. RAIN is coming and staying for most of this week. Tomorrow will […]
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25 IN – 25 OUT
The Tongan volcanic dust seems to be still illuminating our skies into shades of pink before the sun rises. It’s got such a nice glow to it at the moment. Wasn’t it meant to be raining? Things change – for the good as today’s another cracker to complete a week of crackers. In the water […]
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Cavo Paradiso
When I was a young fella, I had a windfall and decided to dash to Greek Islands to let loose and spend it all. Most nights were spent at Cavo Paradiso, an open-air, amphitheatre shaped eastern facing clifftop bar carved from stone. Its opening hours was like 1am to 10am and at 6:30 am, when the […]
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Laisser-aller
Today’s a beautiful day in Sydney. The water is an optimal 25 degrees, gentle NE winds are blowing as waves break in the knee-to-waist high mark. The sunshine is in abundance and the beach is soooooo inviting (it’s quite hard focussing on work, isn’t it?). Put the out of office on, spend the afternoon on […]
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