Awesome photos! Those waves breaking out at the bomby are insane...

CJW, totally agree. Werri Beach was monsterous this afternoon. Me (plus 25 odd people watched) some brave soul trying to make it out on a surf board.

He jumped off the rocks (Southern end) between sets and started paddling. It looked like he was really just a cork bopping around in the ocean. First it looked promising as the ripped started carrying him out past the break... only that it was followed by a big set of 5 meters plus waves that dragged him right back to where he started. We left after about 20 minutes. Man he must have been tired. The sad thing was that towing into that with a jetski would have been a piece of cake.

This really was just a repeat of last week Tuesday albeit with less wind and more sun. In retrospect I should have sailed the Northern end of seven mile last Tuesday. It looked scary with no one else around but was definitely do-able. Today was a whole different story.

Waiting4wind said...

Good stuff. Come summer we expect a regular weekend report with routine updates so we can jump in the car as soon the action starts. Time for a Twitter account!

That's what the shoalhaven heads surf cam is for I always check it before heading down, you can see if it's windy pretty easily. That said it's only a 30 min drive from the gong, I guess it's a different ballgame from Sydney or further afield when you might have to leave before the NE'r has kicked in.

CJW said...
That's what the shoalhaven heads surf cam is for I always check it before heading down, you can see if it's windy pretty easily. That said it's only a 30 min drive from the gong, I guess it's a different ballgame from Sydney or further afield when you might have to leave before the NE'r has kicked in.

Yup... From Sydney you need to know by about 9:30 am to really make it worth the petrol. Plus there are days when it's actually better to sail in Sydney. Unfortunatelly neither the BOM forecasts nor the shoalhaven heads cam alone allow you to really make a good judgement call that early in the morning.

stehsegler said...

Waiting4wind said...

Good stuff. Come summer we expect a regular weekend report with routine updates so we can jump in the car as soon the action starts. Time for a Twitter account!

I already have something else in the works... Stay tuned...

A stehsegler cam....

I suppose it makes sense that a thunderstorms are more likely to form in places where the Noreasters are strongest. They are related. But it seems to me , when looking at the seabreeze chart when you get home, that if you wait an hour or so the noreaster at Gerroa can come back after being turned off by a thunderstorm.

Another thing to note RE picking the NE'r at Gerroa are the wind readings from Point Perpendicular. If you watch it in the morning there it's almost always NE <12kts ish. By mid morning it will start to drift towards NNE and then you know it's on. When it hits 12-16kts NNE at Point perpendicular you can be assured it's 20kts+ NE at Gerroa. I have no idea why, i'm not sure where the P.P wind tower is, or it's surrounding topography but i've been watching it for many years and it's always the same. When it hits 18-23kts NNE at PP you know it's >30 kts at Gerroa.

I wouldn't hold my breath re Wednesday. From what I have seen over the past two months a full on Northerly most of the time doesn't get into the basin properly... I think it has to do with the topography of the surrounding area. In a nutshell the range around Saddleback mountain simply blocks it.

That said I need to check Shoalhaven Heads... possible it gets in down there.
...either way, I'll let you know what it situation is first thing tomorrow morning.