Hand Picked

After a few showers this morning, the sun's shining bright now and it's looking like it'll settle into a reasonable fine day. The swell's up from the south and the low-tide banks were serving up the odd good one between guillotine….

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Murray Fraser
Passing

Bit of a rainy kind of morning out there today. My initial journey out the door was a brief one; the passing showers didn't pass and forced me home to suit up and take the camera for a swim. Well worth it though!

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Murray Fraser
Two Oh Two One

After a couple of false starts, a public holiday kind-a long weekend, a big south swell and a whole bunch of talk about COVID, we've already arrived at the first day of February and reality is setting in; 2021 has started…

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Murray Fraser
Long Weekender

Well that swell finally made its presence felt yesterday with solid waves in the morning and then a serious jolt of extra energy in the afternoon. I snuck out of town for a session in the morning before I was locked into…

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Murray Fraser
Sippin' Coffee

If you set your alarm all amped for a heavy dose of southern ocean energy this morning you might have ended up sipping coffee and chasing seals like me. There's definitely a little more push out on the Tasman but…

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Murray Fraser
Incoming

We've had a shift in weather this morning. Gone is the light summer sea breeze and warm air; this morning the air's got a different feel, the energy in the ocean is rising and the clouds are racing past overhead fuelled…

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Murray Fraser
Clarity

When the temperature is 22 degrees and the sun is shining at 6am it's time to roll out the door and soak up a bit of summer. It's another sensation morning and heaps of people soaking it up.

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Murray Fraser
22˚ @ 6am

When the temperature is 22 degrees and the sun is shining at 6am it's time to roll out the door and soak up a bit of summer. It's another sensation morning and heaps of people soaking it up.

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Murray Fraser
Sunny Days

If there's one thing that we've come to learn this year, it's that change can happening rapidly. But, it's been in the slower moments that deeper change has taken hold. A timeline of our collective attention in 2020 is…

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Murray Fraser
Simple

If there's one thing that we've come to learn this year, it's that change can happening rapidly. But, it's been in the slower moments that deeper change has taken hold. A timeline of our collective attention in 2020 is…

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Murray Fraser
Stayin' Local

If there's one thing that we've come to learn this year, it's that change can happening rapidly. But, it's been in the slower moments that deeper change has taken hold. A timeline of our collective attention in 2020 is…

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Murray Fraser
V I R U S

We had a little bit of sneaky colour at dawn this morning. It didn't last long, but at least it broke the cloudy, overcast deadlock we've been in this week and it's planted a little hope for some sun later in the day. We're in…

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Murray Fraser
Wobble

We had a little bit of sneaky colour at dawn this morning. It didn't last long, but at least it broke the cloudy, overcast deadlock we've been in this week and it's planted a little hope for some sun later in the day. We're in…

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Murray Fraser
G R I M

It's pretty grim out there this morning. The wind's onshore, it's grey and overcast with a light misty rain keeping visibility to a minimum. While this swell has definitely had the odd moment between wind squalls…

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Murray Fraser
W A V E S

We're kicking off the week with waves - yep it's 2-3ft from the ENE. The swell's on the rise but it's bumpy, lumpy and unruly. The forecast is for a steep jump in swell throughout the day and into tomorrow with a peak

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Murray Fraser
Swim

We're in prime swim time. You know that time of the year when temperatures in and out of the water come closer to alignment in the mornings and diving into the ocean as pleasurable as it is salubrious. I try and make…

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Murray Fraser
Red Sky

Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning... and this morning was a real burner! There's a change coming and we're going to start feel it sometime in the early afternoon today when the wind's swings southerly and…

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Murray Fraser
Bask

It's another sensation morning of basking in the sunshine. Light westerly, refreshing ocean and warm sun on the skin. Only thing that's missing is the swell. I guess it must be going straight past us and further…

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Murray Fraser