Silver lining

Heres a collection of photos from the storm on Wednesday and Thursday. I did get wet Wednesday at a secret spot but there is a whole story that I won't go into. On Thursday one of my favourites PK was firing but I ripped the zip off my wettie as I was suiting up to go out. Bummer.

Perhaps I should lay off on the vanilla slices !

Wednesday

Eagle Bay

PK

Dunsborough Boat Ramp

Meelup

Squall coming

Meelup

Clubbies were testing their jet skis in the pounders

PK

 Thursday - PK

Sun and southerlies

Finally some sun, even if it did make the morning freezing cold (1.7 at 6.00 am). The swell has dropped to around three metres and the wind have swung into the south.

Went down south on the off chance that PK would be working but it wasn't. The swell was wrapping in as far a Rocky Point but I was disappointed again. I have got to that age where I surf the waves that will be the funnest not the best and often decide to go to a place because that is the type of wave I want to surf and go away dry if that place isn't on despite waves elsewhere.

The trip across the hill to Yallingup revealed double overhead conditions with only a five guys out (and a whale). The wind was cross shore and there were some decent walls to carve if you caught the right one. One guy caught a long, long left and ended up coming in at Rabbits because that was closer than coming into the reef.

Smiths had some nice conditions and a few people dotted amongst the beach break. It looked like the people shooting the Tim Winton film were out at Supertubes. There were a couple of jet skis but not much action.

Rain

Smallest touch of rain this morning and then back to how it has been for what seem to be the whole of this year !

Perfect conditions locally if there had been some swell but there wasn't.

My spy tells me that Cyclone Carlos sent some waves to the eastern side of Cape Naturaliste. Apparently there were waves at the Farm, Rockies and my favourite PK but the swell was really inconsistent. He was at Meelup and saw one roll all the way from behind the point through to the beach. I love that side and I'm spewing that I didn't think to make the trip.

East Coast

The east coast had waves today. Not the east coast of Australia like last week but the east coast of WA. With a decent sized swell there is surf on the Dunsborough side of Cape Naturaliste. But with the lack of fronts so far this year and a mixed up swell direction it wasn't top quality.

The swell was inconsistent and with enough size to get the shortboarders (well a collection of fish, mid lengths and normal boards) out. Crowds weren't that big but with the long lulls and strange take off spots it didn't take much.

There were people out everywhere to Castle Rock. Even spots that weren't usually surfed were being tried. I surfed the Rocky Point boat ramp on the mal. One guy at Eagle Bay was getting the odd head height take off. PK wasn't that great and there was a few out off Meelup point.

Could be better tomorrow at some of the northern spots when the wind goes more south west and the swell sorts its self out. Or it could go flat.

Down south the go today

Nothing local today.

However there were waves on the western side of the Cape today. Boneyards had a few out. Rocky Point was the pick with almost no crowd and sets up overhead in the morning. Little Rockies was clean and had a crowd of two.

The tide was to full and the swell to small for PK to be much good bu

t a SUP or two and a goat boater were able to enjoy the clean water and offshore lines.

Tomorrow looks similar weather-wise but no guarantee the waves will hang around.

Bad Weather Still With Us

Despite about 15 minutes of blue sky and sunshine first thing this morning more rain and wind is forecast over the next few days. Looks like you'll need to travel if you want any chance of a surf.

After dropping dramatically on Monday the swell came back up on Tuesday and has levelled out around 3 metres at Naturaliste. The swell has heaps of west and a touch of north so it is getting in on the eastern side of the Cape.

Apparently the Farm was good over the weekend and there were waves around to PK yesterday morning.

Some video will be uploaded to youTube later.

Wild

The beach is wild and wooly at the moment and surfing is a no go in Bunbury.

There are waves on the Dunsborough side of the Cape and they should clean up a little when the wind swings more west and the tide drops.

PK was ok but not really breaking how it should. And it was crowded. There was a little wave at outside Meelup and Castle Rock was small and messy but could do it later with a slight change of conditions.

Just watch the school holiday crowds.

Small Waves

Nothing local and the swell is diving quickly. Its already under a metre in Bunbury and below two at Naturaliste. The wind is still strong and onshore.

Surfed the log on a very small but clean PK this morning with only two girls out. Waves were really inconsistent but every now and then there was a zipper allowing a long five. You could see the swell disappearing as decent waves got longer apart.

Rocky Point looked ok from a distance.

Capel cut is mud and while the swell was getting in, so was the wind.

My optimism for a weekend of waves is waning as fast as the swell.

250 ks

Can give you details of everywhere because it feels like I have been there today.

The wind is howling down south. There is swell all the way to Dunsborough but the wind is chopping it to pieces. The Farm, Rockies and PK are a mess. The only people out are two kooks at the Dunsborough Boat Ramp.

The other side is HUGE. Windmills is breaking way out past the rocks and Sandpatches is solid and massive. The wind wasn't quite as bad but the waves weren't surfable.

On the way back we checked Capel and there is lots of swell getting in but the wind has messed it up.

The best surf is at ............the Surf Club !

Big, brown and with the odd face. Not many out but watched one get smashed on a sucky take off.

And it is cold and raining.

Looks like the bad weather has set in for another week but if you keep an eye on it you might just score.