Headed down to Birubi to check out the conditions.
Swell is big.. no let me correct that... HUGE
Newcastle Port is calling 8.4 metres... Sydney spiked at 10.2 metres !

To put the picture into some perspective... the re-form beach break to the right of the headland is over head high. The waves are breaking approx 400 - 500 metres out the back !

Batten down the hatches

I would have rigged up if I could have gotten the car door open... super windy
Seriously though, there is/was so much water moving around out there. Was mesmerizing watching the waves implode in on themselves.

There's a couple of spots up here that may be worth a little look see tomorrow when the wind throttles back and the swell starts to refract and wrap into some off the beaten points and headlands

Time will tell

I sat in my car for about 45min looking at Peggy's in the Gong trying to decide what to do. In the end I took off my skirt and went out...holy ****. So much water moving around the north side of the reef it was insane. I wasn't game to head right in there as there was just too much current and getting caught on the inside would have been interesting....plus it was huge. So I just ended up catching...I don't even want to think how big bombs from the middle of the 'bay' (waves don't normally appear here) into the beach. Did that a few times then re evaluated and thought it was only a matter of time before myself/my gear gets vaporised so I called it a day. Pretty wild conditions that's for sure.

WINDANG - Look how far out from the end of the walls its breaking




BELLAMBI - Where I was working. It would be good to sail here when the surf is too big everywhere else. These waves would easily be mast high still!

I went out at a secret spot that would have easily been bigger than anywhere else.
What scared me the most was how awesome I sailed.
No joke. Don't have to take my word for it. there was someone watching and they asked me to pass on their quote.

"You were so awesome, it was scary!"
- the very impressed spectator, 8/10/09

Kind of annoying in a way because I had to then spend the time typing out their quote, otherwise I wouldn't have gone on here to talk about it.

Yeah that's the spot I meant. I thought unless it's nuking though (as it was today) it's a bit sheltered in there when dead S, hence it being a bit better in a SE? maybe. Holds huge swell really well there.

CJW said...

I sat in my car for about 45min looking at Peggy's in the Gong trying to decide .

I had a look north from Ruby's cafe, didn't spend 45 minutes though. Is that also known as Peggies? Checked out Windang, I'd heard about it, a few lookers, no one out though, will go out there one day. Ended up playing it safe with a few others on the lake.

40 surfers out at Sandon Point right now

Cheers qwerty, have sailed there a couple of times in 7.2 weather.

Yeh that southerly could have been gusting to 12 knots or more, a fair bit of pumping to get planing on a big slalom board. Is that what you call the waves? They still presented me with a challenge, good fun chasing the swells down. I'm basically a lake person.