cruising the web today, it’s amazing how basically “instant” videos and especially photos from hurricane marie are popping up. i’m embedding some that seem worthy.
add to the list!!
laird shooting the pier in malibu (does it count since he had to paddle mid wave?..kidding) heard the pier had some piling blown out yesterday?
Shooting the malibu pier with the watchful eyes of a drone
Jamie O’Brien’s soft board to short board transfer at the wedge. WTF? Pulling into the cave at the end is so good.
One of the many wedge edits
this aerial pic of newport seems pretty nuts. sorry there mr. jetty.
Is there a better way to wash off a less than desired tour result in Tahiti than getting straight into perfect waves at home? We think not. Full Standout Session from this morning at Kirra dropping soon.
East Coast Low: Swell Recap
Issued 29 August by Chief Swell Forecaster Ben Macartney
Big E swell events are rare in August, but not entirely unheard of. Delving into the Coastalwatch surf history reveals the last big late August ESE swell was back in 2011 and before that in 2007. Otherwise, surf heights have ranged between flat and 2ft across southern Queensland coasts since 2006. The origin of the late August 2014 episode is a large, complex East Coast Low (ECL) that commenced its lifecycle as a broad surface trough over the southern Coral Sea last weekend. A deep low developed on the trough as it drifted south from Monday to Thursday; forming a strengthening easterly fetch in conjunction with a slow moving high pressure system over the southern Tasman Sea. The early stages of the ECL’s evolution aimed the strongest, 30 to 35kt easterly fetch squarely at southern Queensland and northern NSW coasts, flowing through several days of solid E swell ranging from 4 to 8ft across the region.
Source: BOM. The early stages of the ECL’s development set up a slow moving, low-end gale force ESE fetch within close range of southern QLD coasts.
Source: BOM. The low is set to re-intensify and move closer to the NSW coast on Friday, setting up a final, large push in SE swell for Saturday.
Although the system weakened slightly during Wednesday, it’s now beginning to re-intensify as it continues on a slow poleward track. Over the next 48 hours the primary low pressure centre moves slowly west, bringing a gale force SSE to ESE fetch within closer proximity of the southern half of the NSW coast. The end result is a strong spike in mid period SE groundswell under near gale force southerly winds along the coast on Saturday; probably topping out at a stormy 6 to 8ft range across exposed breaks during the morning. As the low begins to weaken on Saturday it’s anticipated to once again change trajectory, moving slowly east and further offshore from the Mid North Coast. This should see still solid, albeit easing ESE swell on Sunday morning – this time under light W winds prevailing in the wake of the departing low – producing excellent conditions across most locations and cleaning up just in time for the final day of the Red Bull Cape Fear waiting period.
haha holy cow, that’s so sick! it’s awesome that sandspit was going so good w/ the hurricane swell! i embedded it for you. on youtube, if you look below the video there’s a “share” tab. then you can click embed, copy the code and paste it here, using this little, green video button when you post. (the embed code on this particular video looks like this <iframe width=“780” height=“439” src=“//www.youtube.com/embed/AlzVxfBXkO0?rel=0” frameborder=“0” allowfullscreen></iframe> it’s what you copy from youtube and paste in the prompt box here on sways if you press the green video button
Resinhead, I used to go right and left on surfboards all the time at Wedge back in the day, when it wasn’t cool and we did it for the thrill not the picture; I thought it a big deal till I found out Bev Morgan was board surfing Wedge in '61.