Full-blown mess
It’s been far from stellar in the mornings lately. Today was a full-blown mess—onshore, windswept, rainy, dark junk. Bondi looked deserted, the sand empty for a second day straight, as we all hid indoors waiting for a break. By 2pm though, the clouds finally cracked open. That heavy blanket lifted, and Bondi started looking like […]
Clearing
How? How is it still raining in the mornings? Getting a bit long in the tooth now, init? My jaw hit the floor when I saw next week’s forecast — yep, another week of rain. We’re on day 227 of the year, and Sydney’s had rain on 104 of them. That’s a 45% chance you’ll […]
Urban Rush
After a grey start, Bondi has flipped into a stunning, sunny Autumn day. It’s sitting around 21 degrees at lunchtime—pretty ideal. Heads up, though: there’s a chance of a shower around 4 p.m., so maybe bring the washing in early. The wave machine has eased off. Just the occasional shoulder-high runner pushing through, but mostly […]
Hey Alfred.
Some beautiful beach weather for most of the weekend before Tropical Cyclone Alfred’s effects clouded our skies and the winds picked up. Tropical Cyclone Alfred is currently a Category 2 system located approximately 465 km northeast of Brisbane. Forecasts indicate it may make landfall between Bundaberg and the Gold Coast by Thursday, potentially impacting a […]
Happy Mondays
At Bondi Beach, sets are rolling in at about 2 to 3 feet, with a primary swell of 0.9 meters from the south at an 8-second period. After such a long spell of crappy small waves, it’s nice to see swell breaking in the bay – even if it’s a bit onshore. The water temperature […]
Vitamin D
After a lot of grey and patchy weather, it was so nice to score an A-Grade, top-notch, exquisite Sunday beach day. The winds remained gentle all day, keeping it neat, and the high tides provided dreamy blue hues at most of Sydney’s bays. I visited most of the beaches of the East on Sunday, and […]
PRIME
No, I am not selling Prime drinks on the black market like the kids – it’s a PRIME day – primo – cracker – epic!@# Why? It’s perfectly west offshore and a bit chilly, but the conditions are clean, and the skies have cleared. The ENE swell is peaking, and I saw waves in the […]
Winter solstice
Today is the winter solstice, also called the hibernal solstice, which occurs when either of Earth’s poles reaches its maximum tilt away from the Sun. This happens twice yearly, once in each hemisphere. So what? Basically, today is the shortest day of the year (9hrs 53min) and from here on the days get longer as […]
Restore
Well, it’s been a rather exciting couple of days. I am not sure where to begin. We’ve gone from dull rainy days to non-stop action in the ocean. It all began late Friday when a gale force wind hit Sydney. It rattled my house all night, and on Saturday, we woke to an enormous, unprecedented, […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Antithesis
In stark contrast to yesterday, Sydney is now soaked with rain. Since sunrise, we’ve been lashed with constant showers and now 22 knots of SSE onshore winds. The beach is deserted, and everybody is back to school/work. The Beach party is over! Oh boy, it’s been busy on our beaches lately – here are some pics […]