Where did you surf today ?

[Hatchnam]

Top guy in the photos looks smarter than the other guy.
Top guy would write the book or make the movie.....bottom guy would pose for the dust jacket to promote sales.

The top guy looks like a failed audition for a kids science program, with a questionable suspicious background and a fetish for morbid obesity

[Beanpole]

Thanks Davros. I was allready really looking forward to going back to work on Monday.

Don't worry. It's going to be overhead. So not something that'd concern you much anyway

So five foot faces?

Bottom guy looks like a real Cnut. Probably over calls wave sizes too.

[Hatchnam]

Yeah well we all know how you measure them. By measuring the face height of the reforms. Hey, but help yourself. Don't mind that 99% of the Australian surfing fraternity would pass you off as a silly old egg roll

[Beanpole]

How's your head?
What's the biggest sized wave you've actually ridden Hatchie?
I will try to convert it.

[Hatchnam]

Head is fine. Concerned about yours though. Biggest? Fk I dunno. Probably 10-12 foot Aussie scale.

[Beanpole]

So that's quadruple overhead and a half?
Hollow?

[Hatchnam]

About 3 to 4 times overhead. Not super hollow but a pitching take off and steep angular wall running, then later fading out into a deep water channel. Offshore bombie. Thickest probably 8 foot voodoo with bigger sets on a super long period swell. Scariest, 8 foot and bigger deadmans. Unpredictable and horrifying, but still fun, only just.

Anyway. Whatevs

[Beerfan]

Some clean overhead but not huge sets as I drove past this morning pre work. No one around, somewhere else must be better.

[crabmeat thompson]

left over easterly swell
fun runners tucked in under a headland out of the southerly
picked off more than a fair share of them

i drove for an hour at 5am and came home dry ... then wondered what the end of my st looked like on the high tide. swam late y'day afternoon and i had a feeling there could be a decent shorey.

was not let down. little a-frames all the way into ankle deep water.

[black duck]

down the coast for the early. Back beach no good and devil wind at the island so went out the front. Was pus. Clean, warm pus.

[Beanpole]

So Coastalwatch said 4-5 ft.....went down to Bronte and...yep....4-5ft......faces. Crappy onshore rubbish with a pile of guys out so I went for a swim.

[Hatchnam]

Overhead southerly slop after leaving work a bit early. Disappointing after the run of east swell. Managed to belt out one satisfying re-entry on an end section. Rest of my waves were garbage.

[Beanpole]

Wouldn't call it overhead myself....unless the Bra picks up more southerly swell than Bronte and Bondi. As I said 4-5.

[Hatchnam]

You're in fkn la la land

[Beanpole]

True....it's the wave height thing again......it messes with my head. Between you and Coastalwatch I just get so confused. It looks like 4-5.....Coastalwatch says its 4-5......but it's actually supposed to be twice as big as that.....or more.....and apparently everyone on the east coast can see this as well. I must be in la la land.

[Hatchnam]

(Only) Three foot plus of south swell getting into north maroubra. I.e; a little overhead. Halve the face height - that's the scale. It doesn't make sense, but it's grade two maths. It's not difficult

[Beanpole]

Okay......just a coincidence when it looks as big as they say it does.....rightio. A bit like economic predictions.

[BA]

Wouldn't call it overhead myself....unless the Bra picks up more southerly swell than Bronte and Bondi. As I said 4-5.

Courtesy of Coastalwatch. Bondi. That wave out the back looks well overhead to me.