The Champ

Italo Ferreira seems to be winning a lot these days. He's the reigning World Champion winning the last full tour pre-COVID in 2019, he's the current leader of the 2021 WCT and he just took out the Rip Curl Newcastle…

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Murray Fraser
Trickery

How's this for a Friday! Sensation sunrise, warm sunshine, offshore wind and plenty of juice flowing through from the East. We're heading for a top of 29 degrees; it's going to be a real good Friday!

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Murray Fraser
Fog Horn

This morning's had a bit of everything already and it's only 10am. Thunderstorms and downpours while we were sleeping, a thick fog rolling in from the west just after sunrise and now bright sunshine and a light…

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Murray Fraser
Waiting waiting...

Just before first light this morning it was bucketing down; an intense little nugget of red and purple on the radar rolled directly overhead with a tropical soundtrack. By the time I had poured a coffee the rain had stopped…

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Murray Fraser
ON?

Did somewhere say it's ON? Nope, this ain't no April Fools joke, competitive surfing is back and it's just up the road in Newcastle. Day one of stop one on the Australian leg of the World Championship Tour is underway.

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Murray Fraser
Cooler

It's a touch cooler in town today thanks to an easy southerly change last night. The good news is that the changed has added some extra south swell energy to a fading east swell and the banks seemed to be…

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Murray Fraser
Sustained

What are we up to... is this day 7 of east swell in Sydney? Whatever it is, it's been a stellar run of long period swell and peaky clean waves. The old salts will probably say it was always like this but I can't remember such…

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Murray Fraser
Golden Brown

Golden Brown, texture like sun... if you surfed this morning you might find yourself humming this tune all day. Summed it up pretty well. We're on a run of good waves, if you don't mind brown water and a bit of backwash.

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Murray Fraser
Light Show

One of the best things about these late sunrises (7:02am) is that just about everyone's up for it. This morning's sunrise was the best I've seen in a long while! We had a full sky of fluro pinks and oranges from north to south

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Murray Fraser
Oh Sunshine!

Morning! How you doing? Oh I'm doing great thanks! The sun's out, the wind's offshore and if you're will to run the risk of some dubious water quality there's waves to be had. After days of rain and howling onshore winds…

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Murray Fraser
Silver City

Afternoon. How's it going? I've been hiding out in a self imposed exile of cottonwool, figuratively and literally. This time a week ago I was lying in the recovery suite after having had the surgery to remove 'surfers ear' or…

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Murray Fraser
Wane

Morning! Hope you had a good weekend out there, we had some solid waves about yesterday and favourable winds for the most exposed reefs and corners. If you wanted size, there was plenty to chase yesterday.

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Murray Fraser
Elemental

Oh yeah, it's another cracker of the morning out there! Warm water? Yep! Sunshine? Bucket loads! Waves? Si Si! There's a little bit for everyone out there! The water's got to be about as warm as it's ever been in Sydney…

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Murray Fraser
N I C E

Real nice morning out there. After a struggle through some hefty clouds, the sun finally popped out and it's looking like it'll be sunshine from here on in - hardly a cloud to be seen now and we're on our way to 27 in the city.

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Murray Fraser
Yonder

t's a little cool and grey outside this morning. I took a look outside the window and hit the snooze button a couple more times in the early hours of this morning. I bet there was probably something surfable south out of the wind…

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Murray Fraser
Thirty Three

That's it, pack up your beach umbrella, summer's done for another year. We're into autumn already; can you believe it! Oh yeah, those offshore mornings and east swells could be on frequent rotation. If you're feeling…

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Murray Fraser
Silky

It's one super silky summer morning out there, the perfect ease into Friday and shift down in gear to rolling into the weekend!

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Murray Fraser
Slow Fill

Nice sunrise this morning - Hope you caught a glimpse!
It started out all subtle and then lit up the whole eastern sky in oranges and yellows. I went on a little hunt for…

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Murray Fraser