La Nina 20/21
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- Huey's Right Hand
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Re: La Nina 20/21
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.
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Re: La Nina 20/21
Easily pleased, Steve.steve shearer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:11 amthis is exciting, a real mystery.
haven;'t been so pumped on RS since Iggs posted up his montage homage to Beanpole.
I remember the car sized block of rock chucked up on the Hiway at Kirra in 74.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
Re: La Nina 20/21
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.
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
How big is this Nick? 12 foot? 15 foot? Bigger than this winter?Nick Carroll wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 3:13 pmso 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
Edit: just read back and saw your estimate of 20 foot.
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Re: La Nina 20/21
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.
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
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.
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
alakaboo wrote: ↑Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:18 amIf 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.
Beanpole
You aren’t the room Yuke You are just a wonky cafe table with a missing rubber pad on the end of one leg.
Skipper
I still don't buy the "official" narrative about 9/11. Oh sure, it happened, fcuk yeah. But who and why and how I'm, not convinced it was what we've been told.
You aren’t the room Yuke You are just a wonky cafe table with a missing rubber pad on the end of one leg.
Skipper
I still don't buy the "official" narrative about 9/11. Oh sure, it happened, fcuk yeah. But who and why and how I'm, not convinced it was what we've been told.
Re: La Nina 20/21
My guess is the photo is from the big ECL in early September 1967.
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Re: La Nina 20/21
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.
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.
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Re: La Nina 20/21
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
I would have thought the magazine, Surfing World, would have published some photos.
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Re: La Nina 20/21
i know right. these fun rollers have nothing on maxed out caloundra either.
Re: La Nina 20/21
For a predicted wetter than usual season it’s pretty fucken dry so far.
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Re: La Nina 20/21
dry as a crisp.
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