Where did you surf today ?

[Wubic Pig]

Poetic licence.

I'm eating breakfast watching the cams on the Goldy - someone dicking around on a jetski at Kirra. Some nice looking walls coming through Greenmount - when's this connest start? Are they going to get waves?

[crabmeat thompson]

i haven't looked at any cams, bar the CW currumbin one ... but took a little drive.

kirra is a write-off with the sweep & skis. it'd be pot luck paddling that, you'd either luck right into a bomb or just drift to bilinga before you could say, "anything's pozzible". saw some guys jump off at snapper and by the time they got out the back they were at greeny and travelling at the speed of light in the rip ... seems to breaking okay there, just really wide.

hard to make much of the comp bank in today's conditions, but y'day as the high tide approached there looked like there was a big hole forming around little marley... the telltale sign; the wides ones starting to break left back into into it.

so... it'll probs be like the last few years. if we get swell the 'commisioner' will have to navigate the comp around the tides, juggling mens & womens together. all in all it makes for a pretty stop-start unspectacular shindig.

i'm more excited about pete evans shiny white teeth on mkr to be honest.

[rmb]

Dont they just turn the sand pumps on for a few days and presto super bank?

[crabmeat thompson]

nah its a bit of a science. if the current (running north) is running too fast like it is today and had been the last week, all the sand deposits at north kirra/ bilinga.

if, like last year, there's a E/NE swell and winds and the reverse rip is running the sand gets fired back into the tweed river mouth, hence they won't even switch it on.

they'd need a nice 2-3' of swell with some moderate S/SSE winds to run the pump effectively ... and depending on the size of the hole, it can take several weeks to properly fill up. I'd imagine they'd need a week minimum (of perfect pumping conditions) to fill the current hole.

plus after all this sustained swell we've had, by the law of averages it's really hard to imagine another run like it anytime soon.

the comp outlook could be small and grovelling in the giant hole around tidal little marley.

bleh

[rmb]

Fantastic so what about that Kirra bank that they use skis and do step offs onto will that get a showing?

[crabmeat thompson]

Kirra needs twice the swell snapper needs... I don't think we'll get that.

[steve shearer]

Dunno Braith....I know your up there but I;m seeing another sustained tradewind swell pattern forming as of this weekend with potential for a Kirra finish if any (potential) tropical developments come to fruition.

Forecast glass deffo looks way more than half full to me.

Sand might be the biggest issue but as long as there is some kind of SE bias to the wind they can pump.

[crabmeat thompson]

lol 16 day forecasts

[crabmeat thompson]

Now that's out of my system... Yeah you could be right. Trades for days on the way.

Praise be to seabresus

[scot]

I don't think the banks fared to badly actually. I took a few screen grabs from one of the cams that shows the banks before and after the storm. I tried to get them all around about low tide.
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Not sure what its like behind the rock but I reckon if it stays around this size it will be pretty good.

[crabmeat thompson]

How many aliases do you have Matson?

The bank's deteriorated heaps, the CW camera shows it much better ... Go watch it on high and the left is starting break.

be interesting to see the Kirra effect on the superwank if there's any. Rainbow used to be a natural lagoon while the sand all sat out deeper in the bay and lined the old headland at greeny.

As Kirra takes a little more shape from the rock extension and little groyne starts exposing herself... I wonder if the lagoon at rainbow will reappear and with it, will greeny come back?

Be good to dream.

[el rancho]

the bank has shit itself, compared to what it was

[crabmeat thompson]

Yeah. Even watching it this morning at dead low it's fast, almost a closeout thru little M and all through the bay.

Greeny still looked good though.

You surf it? I'm gonna have a look at the beachies after lunch. Maybe on the high they'll be good?

[foamy]

I was on the beach at Snapper this morning. Some exciting 50 metre rides from behind the rock, though most waves didn't really do it. Nothing really much from outside Little Marley thru to half way across Rainbow Bay. Then some walling waves from the half way mark and into Greenmount. Looked pretty, a grand spectacle, but not breaking hard, guys just cruising trying not to roll off the back. Until a bit of a faster section as you entered Greenmount. Really crowded.
Kolohe Andino jogged past me. Handsome dude. The longer hair is working for him.

[SAsurfa]

Um, Braithy that is the CW cam and Ben wouldn't be posting screenies of their cam, haha.

Also, you're correct with the reverse current on east swells, but.. all the wave action is pushing down the points to the north and this is where all the sand is being transported.

The reverse rip is a small channel running the other way which would be insignificant in relation to the amount of sand being transported by longshore drift to the north by the wave and swell action.

[el rancho]

Yeah. Even watching it this morning at dead low it's fast, almost a closeout thru little M and all through the bay.

Greeny still looked good though.

You surf it? I'm gonna have a look at the beachies after lunch. Maybe on the high they'll be good?

no my ankle is fucked from that big fin cut, haven't surfed since saturday.
spewing cos when I surfed Kirra on friday I blew it on the wrong boards (a 5'9 was too small), wanted to take my old 6'9" T&C thumbtail out for max paddle power.

looked kinda fun just down the road from mine this morning too.

[Beanpole]

Stop it. It's not fair.

[crabmeat thompson]

Um, Braithy that is the CW cam and Ben wouldn't be posting screenies of their cam, haha.

Also, you're correct with the reverse current on east swells, but.. all the wave action is pushing down the points to the north and this is where all the sand is being transported.

The reverse rip is a small channel running the other way which would be insignificant in relation to the amount of sand being transported by longshore drift to the north by the wave and swell action.

Haha. I knew that. Ben's the only guy I know who screenshots and archives cam footage. Well Ben and now Scot.

You reckon there's any chance greeny rocks will come back if little groyne is? And would that mean the big gutter and lagoon at rainbow?

I can't see how extending big groyne could have such a big effect... But maybe?