Nooks and Crannies
Sydney’s coastline is like a broken eggshell, with nooks and crannies everywhere, facing all directions. The good thing about this is that it can be 1ft at one beach and 3ft at another facing more east on the same day!
Today I shot a bit at Bronte, a 270-metre-long beach just over the hill from Bondi. Bronte is busy on a Friday, with huge swim groups in the Bogey Hole (rockpool) or the public ocean baths. It’s a small place, so it’s a tight squeeze.
Most beaches would have been a little hectic this morning, as the conditions were glorious for everything! It was the first cooler morning, around 15 degrees, when I woke. Autumn is here. Winds are offshore WSW and grooming the ocean. Swell looks south, bigger yet straighter at Bondi!
We are open all weekend long. Occasionally we clean out the stock room or have prototypes for sale at drastically reduced costs – check it
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Unclouded
Autumn – I love this time of year. It’s when the sun tweaks around the back of Ben Buckler and rises into the bay, side onto the waves. You’ll see a lot of silhouette shots from here on, my fave. The water remains warm as the air drops. West winds are plentiful in autumn, which […]
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Flourish
Bondi put on its best colours for sunrise, a cracker, wasn’t it? Looking north resembled a postcard from Sydney with dreamy reds and pink dancing above Benny Buckler. The ocean is clean with gentle offshores. A small south swell was putting out the odd shoulder-high wave, but it was closing out a lot. Winds should […]
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Better days
It’s been raining all morning. Not ideal beach conditions. Very dark, too, making it a tad demotivating to get out of bed. If you brave the rain, there are waves. The south swell provides shoulder-high bumps under clean morning conditions (winds currently from the NW and very gentle). Looking ahead, the theme of this week […]
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OneWave 10
It was a sea of Fluro this morning as the OneWave crew celebrated ten years of supporting mental health in the community. They attempted to join North Bondi with South Bondi in a human chain (with the odd Mexican wave). Good to see all the other groups like 440, Salties, Clubbies, all joining in. The […]
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Dawn Patrol
The clouds parted for the sunrise – very pleasant down there today. Did you get down? Most Sydney beaches would have waves today from this little East swell. Bondi had the odd shoulder-high set but closed out a lot until high tide. It’s uber-clean with little wind. The water is bath-like and salubrious. OneWave is […]
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//aphotic
We start in the dark on these types of days. The light was smothered with a thick blanket of clouds – pretty hard to see, let alone shoot. From what I could see, there are clean waves today. Head high and predominantly closing out on lower tides. 9:30 am was the high tide line, whilst […]
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On-shaw
It’s not always glamourous beach days down here in Bondi. Today’s a 20-knot onshore grey day, with few people roaming the beach. A few groms are out in the middle, catching shoulder-high waves stirred up by this fresh southerly. It wasn’t spectacular, but with Bondi Boardriders kicking off this Sunday, they’re all sharpening their skills […]
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Inversion
We had another spectacular beach weekend in Sydney. It was quite simply stunning, with light winds and glorious temperatures. Rather than show you grey, onshore images from this morning (The ‘Smotherly’ is here), I’d rather showcase images taken yesterday. Da-nah! We had an odd inversion fog layer roll into town – where cold air meets […]
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Fiery
La Nina is over. Yep, over. Let’s party. Wow, now that the weather has been unlocked, hasn’t it rebounded in a big way? Hot-hot-hot. Mid-to-high thirties for most of yesterday – and it remained thirty degrees overnight. The beaches have been rammed with humans seeking a reprieve from the heat. At sunrise this morning, there […]
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PINK
The sunrise is rising late, and this morning it was dipped in pinks. Super intense colour around 6:10 am; you probably all saw it as the beach was rammed at this time. There’s still plenty of East swell today, with waves breaking around head-high on sets. Bondi is truly lacking decent banks, so other beaches […]
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Wrong beach
I muffed it this morning (surf-wise) – sorry! I underestimated the current east swell and shot Bondi when many other beaches lit up this morning. I should’ve been at Bra or Manly. They’ve been cooking. Especially with this idyllic WSW 3 knot offshore – oh man, I am still slapping myself as I write this […]
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Review
The beach wasn’t very picturesque this morning, and my artificial intelligence robots are having a day off. So you’ll have to settle for my riveting editorial and some fancy pics taken in February that haven’t been showcased yet. It’s a mixed bag…but that should keep you going until Sydney’s lousy weather clears up! Ok, beach […]
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