Autumn

Picture perfect Autumn morning. With the sun finally starting to bite it is warming up nicely after a pretty frosty morning.

That's the good news. The bad news is although the swell has come up a little it is just a little and there still aren't any waves. There is also a northerly cross swell running to mess it up a bit more.

Keep an eye on it as it might still be building.

Suspended

Won't be much activity on the blog for the next five and a bit weeks. I'm flying out to Italy tomorrow afternoon and returning from Paris late in May.

If I find some surf action over there and steal some Internet I might post a thought or two but don't expect much.

Hopefully by the time I get back the memory of this terrible summer will have been washed from your minds by a pumping Autumn. I just checked the harbour buoy and it has jumped to over one metre in the last few hours. Must know I'm going away !

Good start

Another of those classic Autumn mornings. The wind is light and offshore, the air has a ting of coldness and the water is warmer than the air. It is so quiet that the only noise on the beach is the wind and breaking waves.

Or should that be closing out waves. There is still swell around the 0.4 mark (Naturaliste is touching 3 metres) but no banks. Juniors is fairly crowded and every wave has three people taking off and not an inch of face. There are about six out at the reef which has the odd smaller wall but its hardly classic.

Barnacles on the other hand threw me up a classic hand plane session. Crystal clear water, sucky take offs and some nice clean walls. The 1.1 went well in the cleaner conditions and I was able to keep a higher line that I would usually get on the Hydro plane. The water was so nice it was like swimming in your bath !!

I can't see the conditions improving to much today. Maybe the higher tide might move the take off at the reef a little further out and there could be some waves there. However I wouldn't hold your breath.

If it makes you feel better

Its flat everywhere not just here.

Coastalwatch has the dismal news for both Trigg and Marges. Even in Queensland it isn't any better. The Quiksilver Pro is on its fourth consecutive lay day due to the lack of waves and onshore winds.

Hey Huey its not summer anymore, where are the waves ????????

Shark sighting but is too flat to care

A shark was sighted at Back Beach this arvo but it doesn't really matter because there is no reason to get in the water anyway.

The dismal run of waves continues. It is flat now and looks like it will be flat forever, well at least as long as most forecasts can predict.

And it will be hot so I'm cranking on the air con, pressing play on my DVD player and watching surfing vids until Autumn.