Fill Ya Cup Up
Oh wow, what a great surf morning! 3-4 foot and consistent down at our 900 metres of salubrious Bondi Beach. Sunshine in abundance, and not THAT cold really for the depths of winter. As I type, the onshore-side-shore winds are feathering, so if you filled your cup with a surf this morning, you got the […]
Short Runways
Autumn is a good time for surfing around Sydney. There always seems to be something to ride. Today served up a fun little 2–3 foot shorey on the 8am high tide, with a few short, punchy ones in the mix. When the tide’s that full, it breaks right up on the beach, so there’s not […]
Coal, Coastlines & A Change
Well… we were banking on a bit more swell than what dribbled in overnight. Instead, we got a limp little 1–2 foot wobble. Crowded, a touch sketchy, wrapped in gloomy grey skies. Nothing special. If you rolled over and skipped it — you didn’t miss a thing. Rather than force-feed you ten grey photos of […]
Low Cloud Burner
Nice little low cloud burner smouldering on the horizon this morning. A dash of colour to sign off the week in style. For a Friday, Bondi felt… almost calm? Not heaving. Possibly because you currently can’t park within a postcode of the joint. With the concert set-up in full swing, roads are pinched, paths are […]
Ramp 2 Chronicles
Thursday rolled in dark and moody. Tiny waves. But then, the clouds started lifting and so did the swell. I clocked the odd shoulder-high set out there at lunch. After weeks of famine, it felt like stumbling across an oasis in the desert. You almost don’t trust it at first… is that actually a set? […]
Cosy 35
Bondi’s ramping up in this 35-degree scorcher. Absolute beach-day sanctuary vibes as the masses flee the burbs and head for the brine. Muggy? Oh yes. And now a thick woolly blanket of cloud has rolled in, kindly locking the heat down like a sauna. Sunrise was busy. One of the biggest Ramp 2 mobs I’ve […]
Wall-to-Wall
Bondi was heavin’ this morning — wall-to-wall humans all chasing that end-of-week fix. A dip, a few waves, a gym sesh, then a java hit to round it out. Tunes, sunshine, and good energy all over the joint. Fridays are a big hit down here, and lucky us — there are waves today. Two-to-three-footers with […]
Cool Change
Before the cool change rolled in, it was still steamy, and we had a small window of fun waves. Shoulder-high on the sets, with those little nuggety wedges at Bondi — home of the great rip bowl! The onshores have since kicked in, and it’s now a full-blown junkyard out there (yep, I checked before […]
Pass
The winds were up early and blowing straight onshore when I hit the sand. Combined with a high-tide sunrise, the shorey was looking pretty undesirable — fat, weak, choppy. The breeze also dragged in cooler temps — a one-day reprieve before we bake into 38 degrees tomorrow. Yep, 38! Whoa. Work day today; surf looks […]
Off the Beaten Track
About 1.5 million Aussies jet to Indo every year. Not all of them are rocking braided hair and Bintang singlets in Kuta — the far-flung corners of Indonesia are mind-blowing, raw, untouched… and that’s where I keep coming back to. I’ve clocked 30–40 Indo runs over the years, shooting, posting, living it. By far my […]
Big High
The 9am high tide has swallowed most of the wave energy, leaving the bay looking like a lake. South Bondi teased us with the occasional waist-high runner if you were patient enough, but for the most part, it was flat(ish). Maybe a lower tide mission later — and something with a bit more foam underfoot […]
Nuggety
It’s a rockstar day down at Bondi – there’s plenty to like about it. The left at Ramp 2 was throwing out small but very rippable walls. The groms were glued to it like seagulls on a hot chip. Not huge, shoulder-high on the sets at best, but the shape was a little nugget of […]
Molly
After a bit of light overnight rain, it was nice to wake to a clear sky this morning. The beach wasn’t busy, and later the sun came out, lighting up those overhead sets still rolling in from the south swell. Warm NW winds (just 2 knots) kept it clean at Bondi… barely anyone out, which […]