Well the charts are showing some massive surf today in excess of 8ft (double overhead) with a 10 second period this is looking to be the most powerful swell we've seen in the last year with first light seeing the swell max out. Sadly even if we have lighter winds early on (unlikely) the tiny tides will stop the point breaks that need big high and low's from working so once again it looks like South Bay will be the best option to hide from the size and winds. Although the most likely wind direction will be straight Northerly following the swell, we might get lucky and see some brief periods of NW which is cross offshore this might open up a few other spots, fingers crossed...
S E Australia was hit by huge swells two weekends ago, up to 18 metres down around Southern Tasmania (Shipstern) on a couple of days and up to 8 metres at our most famous local breaks here in Victoria (Bell's Beach and Johanna) - with offshore winds as well! I've got a supplier at work who's pretty useful on a board and he's nursing some nasty bruises and mourning the loss of his favourite board after picking the wrong wave to catch earlier on the day this footage was taken.
Quote from: DaveC on July 22, 2011, 01:17:39 pmS E Australia was hit by huge swells two weekends ago, up to 18 metres down around Southern Tasmania (Shipstern) on a couple of days and up to 8 metres at our most famous local breaks here in Victoria (Bell's Beach and Johanna) - with offshore winds as well! I've got a supplier at work who's pretty useful on a board and he's nursing some nasty bruises and mourning the loss of his favourite board after picking the wrong wave to catch earlier on the day this footage was taken."It's the hundred year storm""We'll get him when he comes back in""He's not coming back"100% Utahyoung, dumb and full of come, you're a real blue flame special arnt you son?its not a tragedy to die doing what you loveI really love this groundrush shitI bet you lied to me about your parentsthey are pulling out a fucking arsenalI know that flm so well you can start it at any point... and I can tell you the next line
Biggest swell since winter hits NE the weekend we break up for 6 weeks. And it's light offshore on MONDAY! WEDNESDAY
Well this weekend has to be one of the most over hyped swells ever and one that produced little. I am surprised that MSW didn't crash due to the no. of people logging onto it.I have never seen as many vans up my way before, all dossing in the farmers fields, tents up everywhere and one prick from Cardiff even thought it was a good idea to drive through the field to park closer to the reef.Sat and Sunday were pretty much blown out other than the sheltered spots but the swell wasn't good enough to get them working properly, they were surfable but far from good. I suspect south bay was rammed.Monday was better before the wind got up, but by 4.30 am there were already 20 people in the water up here. Was a bit lumpy 4-5 ft but the neap tides stopped everything working properly, nice to get into some head and half waves with grunt but nothing like it was hyped to be. By 8am the wind got up and turn everything into mush.Estimating the number of vans from cornwall and Devon (6), adding in the three from wales, one from Brighton, two from Leeds and five from newcastle i would guess well over 10000 miles worth of diesel was used for around an average of 10 good waves each just on the spot I surf. Round about £10 per wave.
