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Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:13 pm
by Nick Carroll
so you wanted to see that pic
it's stamped June 1968 but that's a processing stamp so it may have been taken in late May. That's a wintry sun angle though
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:14 pm
by Nick Carroll
you can see Northy bombie in the distance about where the rainbow seems to be, plus another rogue bombie capping another k or so out.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 7:39 pm
by Beanpole
steve shearer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:11 am
this is exciting, a real mystery.
haven;'t been so pumped on RS since Iggs posted up his montage homage to Beanpole.
Easily pleased, Steve.
I remember the car sized block of rock chucked up on the Hiway at Kirra in 74.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 9:31 pm
by alakaboo
Thanks Nick. I think that's going to be the swell from May 16th that year.
There was a 'cyclone' 60km east of Sydney (probably an ECL).
Waves were reportedly 30ft, and 3 inches of snow fell in Katoomba.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 9:40 pm
by channels
Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:13 pm
so you wanted to see that pic
it's stamped June 1968 but that's a processing stamp so it may have been taken in late May. That's a wintry sun angle though
How big is this Nick? 12 foot? 15 foot? Bigger than this winter?
Edit: just read back and saw your estimate of 20 foot.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 5:54 am
by Nick Carroll
Minimum 20 feet, bigger than anything this year
Point is: it's gone from the collective memory. No record I can find in the surf culture. I was a kid of eight, not surfing yet. What shit must have gone down around here unmarked by anyone, except maybe in fluky pics like this.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:18 am
by alakaboo
If you want to get more history of the event I can put you in touch with people who would know.
It'll be a coastal engineering/marine science perspective, not a surfing one.
Anyone who surfed it would be over 70, I've found in talking to older surfers that their recall of anything before 74 is pretty sketchy, like that was a phase shift that erased previous events.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:22 am
by offshore1
Plus, not to mention, drugs.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:48 am
by Trev
alakaboo wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:18 am
If you want to get more history of the event I can put you in touch with people who would know.
It'll be a coastal engineering/marine science perspective, not a surfing one.
Anyone who surfed it would be over 70, I've found in talking to older surfers that their recall of anything before 74 is pretty sketchy, like that was a phase shift that erased previous events.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 11:03 am
by foamy
My guess is the photo is from the big ECL in early September 1967.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 11:20 am
by alakaboo
Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:50 pm
boo def June 68. it's not some pissant cyclone swell.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 1:42 pm
by Nick Carroll
some comparison, here's me on a solid 10-12' wave at the same location in 2007
this gives you more idea of the actual swell size in 1968
boo I dunno how far I want to go down that rabbit hole, there will be v big swells tailing back as far as observations have been taken. My thought was that in the surfing memory, which is distinct from other kinds of coastal memory, we're really lacking a lot of stuff at the core level of understanding what can happen.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:46 pm
by swvic
Meh, happens heaps in swvic
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:07 am
by Nick Carroll
yes that may well be. But this is on the doorstep of Australia's biggest city, the most accessible surf zone in the nation if not the world.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 6:40 am
by foamy
I would have thought the magazine, Surfing World, would have published some photos.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 5:28 pm
by crabmeat thompson
swvic wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:46 pm
Meh, happens heaps in swvic
i know right. these fun rollers have nothing on maxed out caloundra either.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 5:50 pm
by buddy
For a predicted wetter than usual season it’s pretty fucken dry so far.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 6:41 pm
by steve shearer
dry as a crisp.