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I was expecting things to have dropped off a bit by this morning. But I suspect there was some longer-period swell coming through that kept things pretty solid on the sets.

yeah, south of Jervis a bit.

great day down south. double o.head, deep blue sea and skies.

Mendocino is worth a couple of days. There's good camping on the beach at Russian River, and redwoods and elk. Stop off at Sea Ranch if you are a fan of Northern Cali. 70s architecture. There is also surf. The cascade mountains are sensational. But if you're coming from BC, then you've seen mountains.

Anyone surfed either little or big Marley beach in the royal national park before? It’s around a 50 min walk north or Wattamolla. I’ve checked it on foot three times now, and curious to hear from anyone that’s surfed it. Apparently it’s deemed by SLSA as one of the most dangerous unpatrolled beache...

narrawallee today. a few decent rides on some nice walls.
no stonefish!

that must be a bit frightening having a kid or partner have an anaphylactic reaction to jack jumper ants. I think we used to call them meat ants. big flat nests that look like clay tennis courts? been surfing the local river mouth the last few days. distinctly average conditions. somehow it all look...

there was a person on narrawallee beach this morning playing the bagpipes...the haunting strains of "mull of kintyre" drifting over the water.

strong offshore at a popular reef. clean waves, big rooster tails, about half a dozen out, spread all over the place. harder to get a good waves than it looked from the parking lot.

racecourse beach, yesterday. strong offshore had the waves very clean, with a few barrels.

When did they stop pumping? The shark management program (SMP) commenced in 1937 and there was a marked reduction in shark attacks soon after. Anyway, anyone who wants to know the SMP needs to read this despite its length and complexity: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/...

I presume he means when they put the outfall 7 klms out to sea in the 80s. no. two distinct events. abbatoir waste pumped off the cliffs into the ocean ceased with the closing of the Homebush abbatoir and sale yards in 1988. So, it never was sent into the 7km outfalls. little bay outlet was probabl...

So, there was a decrease in shark attacks after netting was introduced in Sydney...Or another way of stating things might be -- there was decrease in shark attacks in the Sydney region after they stopped pumping the attaboir waste from Homebush straight out of the ocean outfalls of the eastern beach...

left-breaking reef, mid-morning. three foot nice long, long walls. got about half a dozen waves on 6-foot swallow tail quad.

Rainy and cold but I drove down. Sun came out and the bank turned on for 45 minutes. Started to drain too much after that but I must have caught 20 🌊 Stoked. Skin Tests tomorrow so I might be out of action for a couple of weeks. I'm back in Sydney for a few days...worker was putting up a "sewage ov...

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Mon Aug 14, 2023 7:36 pm

How many have crapped in their wetsuit and how’d you get the smell out?

nice try. you're trying to get dis-invited from the Gold Coast meet up, right?

luncheon session at a left-breaking reef, 2-3 foot. one other person out.

Yeah pumping Point surf here today, absolute bombs. How big down there gents? the shoalhaven yesterday was a solid 4 foot, but nothing spectacular, then again I didn't get out till a little late and conditions probably weren't at their peak. Saturday seemed the better day, but there was a mal conte...