Fiji anyone?

[Donweather]

Anyone heading to Fiji in about 9-10 days time?

http://www.surfphotos.com.au/ummmm-hello

[bintang]

Yep, and I can't believe what I'm seeing!

[crabmeat thompson]

Hey Don, where in SE Qld you living now?

I'm not quite sure I've seen a swell like that if it happens as forecasted. Cyclone Sose was the biggest I've seen, but cannot compare to this kind of fetch. The southcoast will be like Hawaii

[bintang]

Look'n at solid Eateries. mEH

[Donweather]

Hey Don, where in SE Qld you living now?

I think you may be confusing me with another Don?

I'm not quite sure I've seen a swell like that if it happens as forecasted. Cyclone Sose was the biggest I've seen, but cannot compare to this kind of fetch. The southcoast will be like Hawaii

As suspected, GFS keeps shifting back the peak of the swell......which isn't a very good sign that it will actually come to fruition (the peak that is currently forecast that is).

[steve shearer]

Keep your panties on ladies......as Carroll pointed out this one's aimed mostly at South Pacific targets.

The straight S swell following Wati was a much more impressive fetch and delivered 15-20ft surf on the south Coast, 8-10ft on the North Coast, 5-6ft in SEQLD.

[Donweather]

I don't recall Wati's swell exhibiting peak periods up in the 18-20sec range though Steve?

[Donweather]

Quite a similar looking chart though Steve. This puppy created a 10ft@15-16 second S'ly groundswell in SE Qld.

Current forecasts based on latest 00z GFS run are predicting 12ft@17-19 second S'ly groundswell in SE Qld, so you're pretty much on the money with your recollection there Steve (noting some extra grunt in the latest period forecast however). How the feck do you remember this shit?

[steve shearer]

Wasn't that long ago Don.
Pretty easy to remember a swell like that.
Just to clarify: I'm talking about the S'ly groundswell following Wati (the chart you have posted) not the swell from Wati itself.

That fetch exhibited a very straight south fetch as it first came into the Tasman swell window, so we must be mindful of that and be alert for this next fetch which to mine looks like it will be more SW in orientation.
Still impressive though.

[Donweather]

I figured it was the swell post Wati that you were referring to (comparing apples with apples).

Yeah, granted it wasn't that long ago, but my memory is shit when it comes to remembering swell events. Musgt be a sign of old age!!!

[brendo]

that fetch you talk about is embedded in my brain. it was similar to the current forecast with lenght of fetch, but major diff is the post wati fetch was almost south north facing. when i saw gfs 10 min ago first thing i thought of was fiji....gunna be huge. new cal to....
goldie will be ugly this weekend wind wise

[Donweather]

goldie will be ugly this weekend wind wise

Perhaps you should have put this at the end of this comment.

[oldman]

Hey Don, where in SE Qld you living now?

I think you may be confusing me with another Don?

But aren't you from SE Qld or parts thereof?

[Donweather]

Hey Don, where in SE Qld you living now?

I think you may be confusing me with another Don?

But aren't you from SE Qld or parts thereof?

Yeah I am oldman, but Braithy said where in SE Qld you living now?, which to me implied I'd moved here recently. I moved here in 1981!!!

[barstardos]

I am flying out on Tuesday for a week on the coral coast. I might miss the peak of the swell on monday but there looks like a few days of following swell to keep me amused.
I should be able to surf the same swell all weekend in sydney and next week in Fiji.
I am taking trusty 7'0" and wondering if it will be enough

[oldman]

It's impressive isn't it.

And is that a low progged to form off the coast of SE qld early next week?

Bet you weren't expecting that at this time of year.

Some of you wiser heads will tell me that is probably a figment of the forecaster's imagination. Probably right too, and it may just muck up the swell you might have been getting from the one-eyed monster deep down south.

[brendo]

hey don,winds could be ok sat in qld going by gfs fantasy land....was looking to be shit from friday, but seems its now an easterly dip forming sun/mon. that fetch south seems to getting a more south/north angle on it as well, at least till the lower tasman anyway.

shearer?

[Donweather]

I'm still leaning towards Sunday/Monday being the largest in SE Qld, as for me, the swell on Saturday just looks to have too much west of south in it for my liking.

As for the low off the SE Qld/NNSW coast next week, it appears that the GFS model is lagging approximately 1-2 days behind the EC model. ie EC's model runs earlier this week had a low off the coast early-mid next week. They've now downplayed this whilst GFS is now on board with it? Who knows?