blazing sunrise

amazing colours for the first 10 minutes of today, the surf on the other hand, looked a little messed up, we had light winds but it hadn't really settled. No problems on the size however, overhead waves with some power where crashing into the beach breaks. Plenty of swell for the rest of the week too.

Macauleys at "6 bells" pretty sky..... ugly surf

southside storm

This pic is of Sawtell's southside last Friday evening. It was a pefect blue sky day and I had to get tourist type photos of the headland, so I got in the bus and headed south, in the space of 30 minutes the sky was invaded by these big grey monster clouds...... probably not the look the client was after, but I love it when the storms roll in, so I'll be holding on to a few of these.

colours

Better than average sunrise colours were happening this morning, just enough clouds to give the warm tones something to work with. The swell is smaller today, but early on before the tide got too low there were a few sliders. If the wind stays away the incoming tide could have some joy for fish and longboard riders.

Donk and Willis head out for the early sess with the right equipment..... 5.55am

still waiting

5.20am before sunrise today

Little clean waves in the northern corners this morning, back in that northerly pattern again. Looks like been small for the rest of the week.

pretty sunrise

gap

 early morning walkers, fisherman and surfers would have seen the only glimpse of sun today. A small opening on the horizon from a thick blanket of cloud that looks like it will be covering us for the rest of today. there wasn't too many surfers around this morning however, and that was due to the very weak north-east wind swell, and early full tide. As I write this the winds are swinging more to the west and with the drop in tide, some places may have a small wave for a longboard, southerly change coming.... hopefully more swell tomorrow.

ST IMAGES

flatness

Beautiful morning, just no surf. This pic was taken at Corindi, the most northern beach of the Coffs coast.