Ross Jones Memorial Pool

Kougee

Sydney is flat, so I decided to visit the (typically) flat water beach of Coogee. Coogee is an Aboriginal word, but Google is telling me it has a few different meanings. 1 study on the name ‘Coogee’ refers to it as the “Smelly place” due to the rotting seaweed on the beach. Another search reveals […]

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Grassy set

Polarizing

It’s a magic day outside. 1 in 100. It’s that good I think you should all put your tools down, chuck the out-of-office on and hit the beach. The surf is about 5/10…Tamarama had a few on the lower tide but the 11:20 am high tide has engulfed any goodness – it’s now fat as. […]

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My Apology

Ahem…just clearing my throat. I think I owe you a huge apology. The wide spread chaos and panic stimulated by yesterday’s Aquabumps incorrect editorial has finally calmed down. The street riots have dissipated. The burning cars have been extinguished. I’ve learned my lesson. MOTHERS DAY IS MAY 8. MOTHERS DAY IS MAY 8. MOTHERS DAY […]

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Tama

I’m getting into this body surf thing. Hours of fun. Especially when the water and weather are this good. Waves are small. Swell is from the NE and not doing much. Today I visited my old home, Tamarama. I lived there for 8 years right on the beach and love the joint. Shame it doesn’t […]

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Over & Above

As I write this daily post the clouds have arrived and our fantastic run of beach weather has come to an end. It’s gone all stormy…rain will hit very soon. Bunker in as the storm will be in town until Thursday. To celebrate the weekend of glorious weather I went up in the sky to […]

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B O W L S

There’s some NE swell on its way to Sydney. I was thinking it might have come up a bit more this morning than it did. Bondi was 2 foot and very wind affected with an early morning SE onshore. Ok, it was junk. Maybe in a few more hours she’ll improve? Pray. Kinda hot day […]

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