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Pleasant surprise this morning.
Clean offshores, smooth surface and nice little 2 footers.
A bit full but the first waves I've had in 3 weeks.
Beeeoootiful!

And if I read it right, Iggy might be getting a few up Sunshine way.

Gunnamatta

Swell was around 2 foot with the odd three footer. Found a nice bank that was holding up some nice right handers, not too many out so I could be a total wave slut

About an hour into it a big fog cloud starting rolling in from Bass Strait, it was pretty cool watching it first hit Cape Schank then bend up and over the cliffs before it rolled into the lineup. It was really thick too, could barely see for more than 50 metres and it got really still and glassy as we were engulfed by this big grey blanket. Really, really surreal being out there.

Made it pretty hard to pick the waves amongst the gloom although they were pretty forgiving so doing the odd late take-off wasn't too hard.

Awesome way to start my week long holidays

I got some absolutely smokin 4ft bombs SOB yesterday. Was super surprised to see that much size in the water that's for sure. It appeared to be more of the E/SE groundswell with the S'ly groundswell making an appearance as well. Couldn't believe how well the beachie banks were handling the long period groundswells, but perhaps the two coincident swells helped with some lovely peak creation.

Had a 3hr session and got absolutely roasted in the sun....summer is here!!! Clean and glassy conditions for most of the morning and one of my mates got the wave of the day just before coping a 20 wave set (no bullshit) on the head and gettign caught inside massively.

Just one of those top mornings that you wish for more of!!!

Was that at georges spot don?
Was thinking of heading down for an early but had some work come in last minute so bailed it.
Shouldve bailed the job instead by the sounds of it

Nah Gibber, you know me, I hate crowds. I was a little further south, just past a booga reef.

I was actually thinking of a basalt outcrop

Stop talking in circles you two.

Nothing today.
Not breaking at my (local) point.
Actually more swell at Happy Valley but the bank is a straight line from KBG south to the deepwater entrance to the Passage.
So - closeout city.
Back to bed.

The usual spot yesterday. Actually swerved it in the morning due to a really low tide exposing the reef and a hoeling offshore, surfed the late but it was still a lazy 2 foot, offshore but at least there was water covering the reef.

Gunnamatta again

Swell looked to be about 4 to 5 foot but I went early against my better judgement when it was only an hour after low tide. After scanning for ages to find a bank I head out where a local kneelo is catching a couple.

Bad idea

Swell was pushing 5 to 6 when I was out there and it was rippy as fcuk. As a result the swell was all over the place and being shallow it reared up and dumped too much. After copping a couple of beatings and then getting swept out about 100 metres from the shore, before being swept down in the current a further 100 metres or so from where I was trying to catch them, I gave up and went in.

A few other guys tried there luck but most went the same way as I did, probably will be better right about now but won't get another chance today :?

Not the best surf on the northern beaches on Sunday morning ... but an extremely pleasent experience ....

stood on top of a hill above one of the only spots picking up the swell at 5.30am to see a fair size pod of very playful dolphins ... the surf was ordinary at best, the sunrise was great, the dolphins were jumping about and picking of the odd set wave so I figured I'd head out for a paddle seeing I'd gone to the effort of getting up and heading down ... although making a regular appearence normally the dolphins cruise by this particular spot and don't hang around long ... but yesterday morning I paddled out to a peak on my own to pick off some 2.5 foot dribblers and much to my enjoyment had some company close by for a solid hour .... normally the pods of dolphins I see on the NB's are a mixture of older through to younger, and sometimes babies ... but this pod were all fully grown size but all seemed young as there skin looked very clean and of a more vibrant colour and none of them from what I could see had any scars or nicks out of their fins ... plus they were very active the whole time and looked like they were playing with each other much like when dogs play-fight ... needless to say I was more than happy sharing that surf yesterday morning ...

my best dolphin surf ever was at dreamtime

smallish pod catchin some early morning clean ones, just my mate and me out.

i'm glad i knew they were there, as I was bobbing in about 8ft of water when a stray one was heading straight for me, caught sight before it kinda freaked out and dove straight under my board.

like I said, i'm glad I knew it was a dolphin.

Not sure what's happened to my computer but I've just noticed I've suddenly become able to see the whole of posted pics - not getting one quarter cut off on the RHS any more.
Some of you may remember discussing this a while back.
At the time, nothing I tried would give me the whole pic. Now it's happened all by itself.
Wonder if Don changed something - or one of those microsoft updates did something for a change.

that's the one thing i don't miss about Gunnamatta hatchman... the paddling associated with Mornington Peninsula waves.

did you end up getting a powerglide?

nowhere, got up at 5 and it was bloody howling wind,

diggerdickson wrote:nowhere, got up at 5 and it was bloody howling wind,

It howled all night Digger.
SE Qld waters report said winds lighter SW/S inshore early.
FAIL

Got down into it a bit more today

Start at 1 or 2 min

kinda surprised it's all of a 9 second ride Daz surfing 1109

Daryl, that's your best post ever.

No muckin' around, straight into one.

Gunnamatta

Small but glassy, waves were about 1 metre high or 1 foot on iggys scale.

Not too bad