DAILY POSTS

Banger of a sunrise this morning, hope you caught a glimpse of it. It almost didn't happen as the clouds shifted but at the last minute the sun found a gap on the horizon and delivered a palette of bright light and rich colour…

Guess what? Yep! We've got waves! After a long, dry spell of flat to small conditions, a pulse of south swell has finally pushed up the east coast. It's dead south meaning the magnets are a solid 6ft while Manly to Queenscliff…

We've got waves incoming! While there wasn't a whole lot filtering in to Queenie at first light this morning a quick gander at the cams is revealing nice lines of swell out of the south. The wind's due to come up from the south…

After a rainy start, the day's looks to have come good out there. Sun was shining and there was ample blue sky last time I had a peek out the window.

If it wasn't for Curl Curl, we might have all transitioned to longboarding by now. It might not be everyone's cup of tea but it's the go-to spot on these lengthy periods of minimal swell. Curly has a reputation of making an honest wave…

Morning! These sensational winter days are on repeat; we're heading for 21˚ today, 22˚ tomorrow and a top of 23˚ on Saturday. Add to that light winds and sunshine and winter ain't too hard to navigate in Sydney. 

Was an early start for a cool winter morning today; mind you 6:30 isn't all that early in reality. With an 8:36am low tide, it was a case of the earlier the better and I reckon we scored a couple of runners before the bank…

It's been a slow winter for waves on the Sydney beaches. We're approaching mid July and the prospect of another week of small-to-flat conditions. We haven't seen a deep southern low swing into our swell window…

The sunshine is back with us this morning, and sooner than expected. We've had so much fine, calm weather lately that yesterday's light rain and grey sky felt a little foreign. 

While the ocean was reasonably calm the sky was on fire this morning. If you were on the beachfront this morning you would have caught that beautiful, drawn-out winter sunrise with light transitioning from vivid…

Mondays; you either love them or hate them. I'm squarely on the love side of the fence. It's no secret that Monday's are the quietest mornings of the week, especially in winter when the shorter days and temperatures…

It's the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the summer hemisphere. We've reached our furtherest point in the tilt away from the sun and from tomorrow onward the length of daylight in our part of the world…

We're back to normal programming this morning. We've got waves on the Manly to Queenscliff stretch and a cool and crisp offshore. It's 2 foot and south; a bit straight and not ideal for the masses that descended on beach…

There's a bump on the ocean this morning! It's only small but after 7 days of flatlining even the tiniest pulse of energy on the Tasman is something to get excited about. It's waist-high now and hopefully building…

The Tasman continues to slumber this morning. There's just a hum of swell coming in from the south; it's knee-high on the sets which is better than flat. The outlook for swell is pretty quiet as far as the eye…

There's only a handful of weeks in the year when the sun's far enough north in the sky to light up the southern corners of Manly at sunrise. For most of the year, the headlands of Manly Point and Fairy Bower block sunrise…

Tuesdays after a public holiday are usually pretty quiet. But with conditions small and uninspiring to most, it was dead out there at first light this morning. Just myself and Tully White floating around in the brine for the

We've had some big tides lately. Low lows and high highs. This morning the low tide was just 0.2m at 6:48am, close to the lowest of the year. I'm not sure if it's true, but it feels to me like an incoming tide adds a little energy…