winter fourteen

[steve shearer]

We needed you to take one for the team.

[crabmeat thompson]

We needed you to take one for the team.

Next time

[Trev]

Bloody nice stuff coming into my local mid afternoon.
Pretty big crew on it when I paddled out the keyhole. Lucked inot the fourth wave of the first set to come through and ended up right inside in the channel.
Love days like this.

I reckon it'll be a bit more solid in the morning on the dropping tide.

[crabmeat thompson]

Tallows in a strong S swell ... would we assume they were backpackers/ novices with no concept of the situation they'd just paddled out into?

Emergency services were called to Tullows Beach this morning after three male surfers got caught in a rip in the rough conditions.

http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/new ... 6994716511

[Yuke Hunt]

Tallows in a strong S swell ... would we assume they were backpackers/ novices with no concept of the situation they'd just paddled out into?

Precisely ... Tallows in those conditions would have to be the silliest choice for a novice to paddle out at (if thats what they were).

That swell bumped up a fair bit early yesterday (down the coast), but failed to build on the incoming tide. There were some really nice waves where we were plonked for a few days R&R.

Dawn patrol ...


Waves (later in the day) ...

[LPJ]

Light N'ly at the GC seaway yesterday, Mare's Tails(ish) today, highs not stabilising on the continent in the 4day charts...? something up with that?

[Donweather]

Yeah that wind at the top end of the Goldy yesterday was very weird indeed!!! Certainly way off forecast and very localised.

[el rancho]

Punched straight out the back at the causeway on the 6'11 Mickey Mac single I posted in iggs thread. Bit of a singlefin convention out there, some big boards trying to scratch into the sets marching through, Andrew Kidman was on a Sam Yoon shaped beast of a thing. Too sweepy and the few big ones I managed to get onto weren't worth the effort anyway as they just fattened out into nothing.

[Hatchnam]

^ how big did it get up that way ? bet it was awful out there trying to peg yourself against the run of straight south swell.

[Beanpole]

Punched straight out the back at the causeway on the 6'11 Mickey Mac single I posted in iggs thread. Bit of a singlefin convention out there, some big boards trying to scratch into the sets marching through, Andrew Kidman was on a Sam Yoon shaped beast of a thing. Too sweepy and the few big ones I managed to get onto weren't worth the effort anyway as they just fattened out into nothing.

I used to love surfing the Causeway. I could see Cook Island from my house and depending on which reefs were breaking out from it you could work out whether it was a quick trip to Fingal or further afield. Fido Reefs aren't they?

It was rarely crowded in those days.

[el rancho]

Fingal is a hoax point like caba. Its drawcard is its rarely got a crowd on it. Nice spot to nab a tailor though, plus all time beachies within spitting distance

[Beanpole]

I used to like it in a big south swell but yeah there's much better waves around. Much more crowded too. It was like an obscure point somewhere way down the coast but not.

[steve shearer]

fizzed.

bizarre how the ocean/atmosphere coupling broke down

[el rancho]

fizzed.

bizarre how the ocean/atmosphere coupling broke down

weird little pulses still hitting the north coast though, I copped some hollow overhead waves this morning, some one and half overhead sets were pushing through infrequently too.

[steve shearer]

Oh, I don't mean the surf today.

The looming El Nino has broken/is breaking down. There's a weak WWB trying to gather steam right now but compared to a month ago, ocean heat content is down. The warm water off south america is dissipating. Trade winds have been roughly normal in the nino regions.
nothing to see.
we might even get a decent summer.

[Donweather]

I'm not so sure. It's been an incredibly dry winter with constant offshore winds. That can only spell an even drier start to spring with some horrendous bush fire conditions imminent.

[el rancho]

Oh, I don't mean the surf today.

don't worry about me, I'll be in the shed.

[steve shearer]

Not down here DonW.

Been an average winter for rainfall and has been over a lot of the country, mainly due to NW cloudband rainfall.

I feel like the far north coast is a more sensitive ENSO indicator than SEQLD due to our position.

It seems from the weather indicators here like we aren't heading into a massive el nino....like for instance we did in two thousand nine.

but that is just my speculative theory and could be totally wrong.