orange

The swell is still a bit messy on our part of the coast. Despite all-night offshore winds, the surface conditions are bumpy and lumpy. Waves are around shoulder to head high on the bigger sets, but were lacking quality at the 3 beaches I checked this morning.

While the waves were a bit of a yawn, the sunrise was stunning! Beautiful orange, glowing start to the day. Just a small clear opening on the horizon concerntrated the colour under the heavy overcast skies.

 Rider of todays post : Matty Wyborn

HIGH TIDE: 11.03am - 1.33m
LOW TIDE: 5.04pm - .036
WATER TEMP: 24
SWELL: shoulder to head high on the sets
WAVE PERIOD: 12-13 seconds
WIND: light westerly early, turning light to moderate easterly

crumbling

There is some surfable waves on offer this morning, however the beaches I checked were lacking in power and quality. There is a southerly wind with us already,  so go to southern corners for the cleanest waves. Nice little light show amougst the clouds at around 7 bells. It was full stary sky at 6am, by 7am only the horizon had a gap in the clouds and now we have yet another overcast day.

Only a handful of "before work" surfers out there today. All coming in with smiles on their faces.

HIGH TIDE: 9.31am 1.48

LOW TIDE: 3.43pm 0.3m

WATER TEMP: 22

SWELL : south-east, shoulder high

WIND: south to south-east winds 10-15 knots

sou wester

East and south swells in the water this morning. Fun waves in protected corners out of the strong southerly winds. Tide coming in really fast this morning, hide tide shorey bank anyone?

south wester blowing the tops off. 6.30am

morning hack

fine day

self portrait shot this morning. This setting needed some human interest and I was the only human around at five past six today.

waves were fun again early, a little smaller but still big enough, water temp is lush, looks like a good beach day..... get out there! 

ST IMAGES PHOTOS

cleaner

Really fun waves this morning. The swell has cleaned up and the coffs beachies are looking more organised. 

Ronnie Goddard speed run

messed up

East swells still up, but its still messy and unorganised at most beaches. This spot had a few, but it was really inconsistent. Should start seeing cleaner waves on Wednesday.

novelty wave

John Craig

Well me and Johnny checked everywhere from Mullaway to Coffs and found nothing this morning. Swell has increased a fair amount but the beaches are so stirred up and breaking miles out to sea. On top of that it blew northerly all night which takes out a heap of options. Ended up finding a little rock wedge with a cool backdrop for todays post

go surfin

Waves are pumping today on the coffs coast. Solid east swell hittin all of our beaches with some long over due power. Today pic was taken around 7am it's of a smaller inside wave, there are some bigger bomb sets out there today. Just got a call in from a mate who was frothing over a session of some of the best barrels he's had in years... and I've seen this guy get some crazy barrels over the last few years, so somewhere is around here is off its head, I'm not gonna tell ya where but.

its coming good

Sharpy!

Waves are on the improve. Most back beaches had some fun peaks to play with today. these pics were taken around 3pm. The conditions were a lot better than first thing this morning. Weekend is looking good.

Yewwwwl! my favourite pic for today. The water is super warm and doesn't this guy love it!

maybe tomorrow

Madison Williams last Sunday morning.

Well I went to the beach for my daily photo this morning, but it wasn't pretty. Cloudy, windy, choppy, messy, sloppy....... bloody terrible really. You would have to be super keen today. Later in the week looks better.

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

rock ledge

Today's pic is from deep in the archives. I haven't seen this rock ledge break for a long time, its a very fickle wave from our northern region, it only really gets surfed by a handful of locals who are well tuned into it. One advantage of this 3 months of small swells is that the sand should be building up nicely off the end of it. hopefully it will light up again this autumn.

Today is just plain flat, well it was first thing this morning on the fullish tide, chance of a southerly change either tonight or tomorrow.

smooth

6am this morning

Almost flat today. Perfect glassy conditions with a very short range 0.5-1 foot wave. Hard to get a log into a decent trim today. Looks like small surf all week.
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summer sliders

Another beautiful morning on the mid north coast, weatherwise its been the best summer in years. Colourful mornings, warm evenings and light winds. Just missing out on the swell departmant. Its's smaller again today. 1.5 foot sliders on the sets and ankle height in between. Still beautiful in the water, so just go with it.

 

Donk and Joe getting their morning fix

The Chief!

hoax

Well I think nearly every keen surfer was up at the crack of dawn ready for some swell action, but it was nowhere to be seen. A large south swell is battering Sydney and Newcastle over the last 2 days and we are getting none of it. All reports pointed towards a 2.5 meter south swell for us, but the swell doesn't appear to be south and it's not even close to the forecast size. Its actually smaller than yesterday and now the north-east wind is playing havoc with it.

Todays shot was taken around 9.30 yesterday

summer fun

2nd post for today. I ventured back to the beach this morning around 9 and found some little peaks breaking in cystral clear water. Swell still not as big as we hoped for, but much better than its been.

got thursday on my mind!

waiting for the tide

Clean little swell running in at first light this morning, but the ultra low tide had most beaches looking undersized and closing out. The push of the tide should bring up the size and improve the quality. Cooler westerly winds blowing too, all the signs are pointing to a change in fortunes. The next few days might deliver.

sun & the sea grass

Well not much happening with the waves this week on the mid north coast. Monday and Tuesday had tiny east swell, bout 1-2 foot at best on the open beaches.... It been too long!

Come on Huey come back from your long service leave

sloppy north-east wind swell today. maybe try a back beach that get it from this direction.

the golden hour

More sunrise shots this morning, the surf was very lazy knee high and a bit crumbly, so I worked on getting the reflected colours that only this time of day can bring..... best time of day, most humans are tucked up in bed missing the best hour of our 24 hour cycle we call a day.

Mitch & Rusty crossing the creek at prime time today.

clouds on fire

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