What? Good waves in the harbour? Yes, yesterday!

Harbour Surfing

Wow, that was a wild weekend! That rain dance worked, ’cause torrential rain floods our dry town. Combine the wet with gale-force winds and 10-foot waves you’ve got some interesting conditions. Yesterday: totally howling onshore at Bondi, if you sought refuge in the harbour you would have scored offshore, good overhead waves with 1,000 others. […]

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Soggy Shoes

Bondi used to be one huge sand dune in the 1800’s. The mega dune used to extend from the beach all the way back to Rose Bay. Check out this photograph in 1875 if you don’t believe me. Well…over the past 48 hours nature has been trying to return Bondi to it’s original condition. The […]

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Free Car Wash

This low continues to provide rain, wind and swell. At least its toned down a little from yesterday, the wettest day of the year so far. Look on the bright side, at least all the salt has been washed off your car. Bondi was a random 4-6 foot this morning. Not much lining up at […]

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Harbour Surfing

This ferocious storm is terrorizing Sydney with pelting rain and howling winds. Swell has come up to a rogue 8-10 foot solid at exposed breaks. Very limited options for surfing today – but – that one novelty wave in the harbour – the one that breaks annually is pumping out a little wall…I don’t know […]

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