Carnage

What is going on? What is going on? I go overseas for 12 days and Sydney blows up, literally? The photos I’ve seen just don’t look real. A 13 metre swell in town…whaaaaaat? Cape Fear runs with a psycho north swell (so dangerous on that direction), a huge water tank is lifted from the Icebergs […]

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The Rookie

I’ve got a confession… I nailed some storm photos on Friday. You know, the Armageddon type cloud that rolled in Sydney at lunchtime on Friday 6th November that everyone is talking about and broke the internet? It was amazing. I was luckily enough to be down there at first hint of that radical front – […]

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Shelter

I went down early this morning and had a look at Bondi. It was an onshore mess of white water and rain. 1 guy running, 2 guys surfing and that’s about it. Uninspired, I took 1 image and returned to the sanctuary of the office trawling some Hawaiian juice to provide today’s aquatic escape. Get […]

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draft

A very typical Sydney storm is in town. Strong South wind, sloppy south swell and random junkyard out at Bondi. If you want to surf uncrowded Bondi, it’s all yours. 3-4 footers, hard to pick the right ones, but there’s gold in dem hills (for overly enthusiastic an unemployed surfers). For the rest of us, […]

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transformation

That violent southerly change last night was something special. Spectacular. A sausage cloud rolled over from Tama bringing rain, lightning and a serious gale. Unfortunately it’s ruined the clean surfaces of yesterday and halved the swell to the 4-5 foot range. Bondi still wasn’t much fun and not handling the larger conditions – pass. Tomorrow […]

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