4 expected ship movements. Not sure on times yet.

EXPECTED
30 May Ikan Tamban Lascelles 1 Bulk_D Inchcape Shipping
30 May New Baroness Lascelles 3 Bulk_D ABB Grain
30 May Olympic Spirit II Refinery Pier 4 Crudetank Wilhelmsen Ships Service
30 May White Kingdom Corio Quay North 4 Bulk_L Inchcape Shipping

Single Yellow Lines - indicate landing options.
Multiple Yellow Lines - indicate places you DON'T want to land.

Two runs ??

Ricketts to Williamstown Back Beach / Esplanade ?? Just be mindful, the wind could be SSE rather than SE. Or ESE...

Always a gamble with the direction but I figure if we had the destination car at Williamstown or Altona we could leave from Ricketts or Sandy or wherever suited the direction. We could get 5 boards on my landcruiser no worries.

Hey aussiefreebs, we can fit you up with a board if you want to come.

10.30 near Geelong Grammar perhaps.
North Shore, near School Rd & Foreshore Road & Biddlecombe Ave, there is a car park.
I'm in Torquay, the Melbourne Crew might want to meet at StKilda at 9.30 for a 50min stroll down the Geelong Rd.

Congratulations Aussiefreebs !! First baby?

I see you on Facebook now. Yeah, Matty G. We went to Leopold Primary before he went up to Melbs. He runs a mens hairdressing and grooming saloon in Geelong West, called Matty G's, but now called The Mens Room.

100k fine sounds odd ?? But it's pretty clear what areas you need to keep away from....

Just as I suspected.... SSE wind, just starting to fill in now.

Get your equipment ready! Let's make an 8am/8.30 call.

Now it's ESE, and picking up. 35km/h gusts.

Edit;
Now SE, 40km/h gusts. Conditions look great, but at this stage I'm looking for paddle partners.... Melbourne Crew aren't coming....

Success Of Sorts... We both survived, no trouble !! We paddled from the eastern side of the tip Pt Henry, and had to head in a Northerly (or NNE) direction at first, to get lined up with out destination, and to also miss a shallow shoal, off the tip. Only to find another shoal shortly after that. The shoals cut out the wind runners, and that was the main problem. We fell in a few times in the middle third, and mostly when we fell in, we could actually stand up. Which leads up to the conclusion, that Corio Bay is basically very shallow, or at least the general Pt Henry region is shallow!

We'd like to take a closer look at some depth charts now.

The general shallow waters were not allowing the wind waves to develop, and we were left with small waves, and small periods / small short troughs, so the runners we did manage to get, were a little tricky. The running swell was also peaky and broken. Nose in the back of the wave ahead... sort of stuff.

DJ has some photos to add. Thanks again for coming DJ!

At least we gave it a go.... it would be a nice cruisey paddle on summer SE though.... but basically, we won't be rushing back to that route on SE wind. Wind was about 15-20 knots, so could have also used 5 knots more....

How was the SE in Melbourne today ???

The tide was actually rising towards high, so full high would not have been much better!

What did The Melbourne Guy do today ?? Was the SE any good up there?

DW Leash v's Normal Leash;
There was a scattering of weed near the end, and the leash picked some up. Easy to shake off, but I'll be contacting Balin tomorrow, for one of there DW Leashes !!
Rich (Strapper), do you stock them?

Glad it went OK guys, I ended up getting a lift to my daughters boyfriends house in Chelsea, did a solo downwinder back to Green Point this arvo. Just on 20k in 2hours and 10, direction was pretty good but very choppy before Ricketts. Expensive though, bloody waterproof phone housing leaked and my iphone is stuffed . Think I'm going back to my old waterproof cover, had it for years but recently got sucked into supposedly superior German technology......