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wonder if anyone but Kelly would have been given a wave on a 5'11" in those conditions?
And how many he got?
I've discovered I can ride my 5'11" in much bigger waves than I thought (about a third of those....), but not if there are more people than waves in a set.

Coops, you still on the pain meds?

that sucks
There are a lot of retirees sitting on their balconies up behind there, might find a witness if you door-knock?

I mean quality not just good waves. So, you're looking for reports of where it was crap? Haha are you kidding me, there isnt a single wave on the Northern Beaches that likes a south swell, ... Its just a shit swell direction. The vast majority of big swells in Sydney come from the S-SE direction.

when talking/reading about wave height is it the same as the Hawaiian size? i.e. height from the back of the wave, or is it from the wave trough to lip as you're looking at it. Yep, that's normally right. Of course, an Australian foot is smaller than a Hawaiian foot. And it's far more common to mea...

Topher, they deliberately dig below the water table because it's much cheaper and easier to move it as a slurry a That's what it looks like on the aerial photos, there's a couple of dredges floating in the ponds. I heard that the price of building sand has gone up a lot recently, I assume they're ma...

Coops@DY wrote:They need to do something to that beach, it has the worst waves in sydney.

Not on the "Best beaches in NSW" list for you, Coops?

They've also got a reliable source of sand from Port Hacking, so it could turn out to be a seasonal thing, I expect.

I also get baby sea slugs sometimes appearing in the tank. I assume after i have fed my pet drummer some green weed from the rocks that the babies have hitch-hiked back to my tank. (edit: my aquarium has never been well looked after, more a haphazard occasional addition from the rock ledges, and to...

With Rusty Gromfest in town and last weekend of QLD school hols this is the biggest clusterfcuk of the year here: no complaints, it's good for local business. Interesting comment Steve...time for a Search event? :? You need a security clearance to be shown the existing plants. The guy who located a...

that's an aquarium in bloody good nick. What happened?

Live and learn. Never seen tailor jump, though I've only ever used pillies.

Queenie? Wrong time of year, and too far south

What do you reckon it was?

If you ever get the chance to dive at Bunaken Island off nth Sulawesi you'll probably lose your mind for good.

While you're around, the EDO is running a free coastal law seminar at Lennox on the 16th.
PM me if you want the details.
Edit. It's not really a secret, and others may be interested.
http://australiancoastalsociety.org/fre ... ennox-head

Nudibranch, please Steve.
Their union will get upset.

Shire surfers, you could be getting some better banks soon... "Surfing conditions will soon change at North Cronulla, after the green light was given to build an underwater sandbank, or ‘‘sea slug’’, to improve wave formation off the Prince Street seawall." Full story here Sand slug at Nth Cronulla ...

Topher wrote:What about singles? I've been riding a performance single almost exclusively for the last month, maybe I should make a new thread

I thought you were still looking for one?

Mr Carroll was further amused to be contacted some months later by a man hoping to conduct a lengthy interview with him on the subject of NSW's best beaches, on behalf of, you guessed it, Tourism NSW. That would be a man working for the consultants that they ended up hiring, despite their lack of f...