What is with some people today???? I was reading an interview on the web and gave up because of the very bad grammar and spelling. How hard is it to ensure you use the right word in the right context?? And spelling!!!! F fucking 7 people….. Sheesh….
So, before you start on me let me use the excuse that all my grammatical errors and misspelt words are deliberate…..
I just plain refuse to read crap… If it’s not legible it is crap!!!!!
Discuss!!!!
Welcome to SurfPhotos Weekend Surf Forecast. Here is a forecast of the likely surf conditions we can expect in SE Qld for this weekend (September 4th/5th).
Saturday: Combination of weak, peaky windswells in the 1ft+ class at best. Moderate to fresh N/NE winds, with a remote chance of lighter offshore winds early morning along the top end of the Goldy and Sunshine Coast.
Sunday: Combination of weak, peaky N’ly windswell and inconsistent S’ly swells in the 1-2ft class tops. Moderate N’ly winds with a remote chance of lighter offshore winds early morning along the top end of the Goldy and Sunshine Coast.
Weekend Forecast
Tis the season!!!
Righto, I need everyone from tonight to commence praying to Huey for each and every night for the next 9 nights for him to deliver something that resembles the following 3 charts.
Finally, the charts are showing some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Yes fair to say it’s a damn long way out with respect to model reliability/accuracy, but at least there’s some general consensus between the 3 leading models that there’s some form of drought breaker on the horizon. All 3 models are alluding to the fact that we should have some form of low pressure system out near NZ longitudes, with a high pressure system squeezing up against it in some fashion from the Tasman.
Fair to say that we’d probably prefer something more alike to the GFS or EC models, with the BOM model not really producing any great quality swell from this chart below. Also worth nothing that the EC model has that damn sheep shaggin isle dissecting the fetch in two, hence at least halving any swell that could be delivered from this chart. Also worth noting that it wouldn’t take much change in the models to actually push this low completely to the east of NZ, thus banishing any swell hopes for SE Qld.
So in summary, the GFS chart is the one to pray for at this point in time. Will keep ya posted of developments. Until then, enjoy the Spring like conditions!!
BOM Model
EC Model
GFS Model
what board or craft do you want next ? are you getting something fat and fun for summer slop waves or is there a design out there you have always wanted ???? why ?
How hard is it for people to put together their own result write ups these days? When I did a Google search on the recent Sintra Portugal Pro, I was looking for the results of the women for my entry here and the DK for throwtail.com. I saw the same 10 lines copy and pasted directly into over a dozen different sites. Lame people, very lame. I’m all for pushing and pimping a link ( my friends on FB would know this all to well ) but as for just blatantly taking old mates write up word for word. Ugh…now that’s just plain lazy. And its not like the original write up was all that great either….Now I know we cant all be there to see it for ourselves so that we can write amazing tales of victory and defeat for our readers…but that’s the point, we need amazing write ups so we feel like we were there for all the action. Not falling asleep at the screen…..I’m sending emails to several sites with the subject line: ’thesaurus.com’ as soon as I’m finished here.
Any who, all this talk about the just completed Sintra Portugal Pro on my news feed and all of it is about the dudes. Typical. I had to do a bit of detective work to find anything concerning the DK and it was even harder trying to find the women’s results…Well done to Isabella Sousa (Brazil) by the way for taking it out in the end…but one name I was unfamiliar with was the other chick in the final, Miya Inoue from Japan.
Apparently Miya caused quite the upset early on by eliminating the host country’s Mary Lord on the first day and didn’t stop dominating throughout the competition…even eliminating last years winner and this years favourite Catarina Sousa (also from Portugal).
Ive always been a fan of the underdog, the unassuming unseeded competitor that ends up blowing away the big names and making it to the final. If this was a Disney movie she would have come back from debilitating cramps or a shark attack to miraculously take the win. But unfortunately for Miya, Isabella’s experience won out in the end and she just couldnt come up with the goods. Having said that Miya gave it a nudge and had a lot of people rooting for her to take the win. Its always nice to have some fresh faces up on the podium.
Gee, re-wording that was hard……………………………………………………………NOT!
Boing Boing….that was the noise I heard today as my son played with his Slinky down our stairs and it brought a tear to my eye as it, along with the extreme flat spell we’ve been having (apart from something resembling a wave today) reminded me Spring is upon us.
And that can only mean death to a surfer in SE Qld unfortunately, at least for the next 3 months. And I have to say apart from the next 2-3 days (and even then it will only be marginally surfable at the GC south facing beaches) there’s nothing to even get remotely excited about on any of the charts for some time to come.
Something small my sneak under the radar on Wednesday (probably more so after mid-late morning), and with potentially N/NW winds on the cards, those in the know may wish to scout out some south facing back beaches to savour what looks to be the last of anything surfable for SE Qld surfers (once again nothing huge, but something in the 2ft/2ft+ range at GC south facing beaches is a possibility).
After Wednesday, the usual Spring N’ly winds look to set in for a few days, and this has the potential to also send water temperatures plummeting….yet again, another great treasure for SE Qld surfers to look forward to during Spring.
Late next weekend might offer some grovelly weak, peaky locally generated E’ly wind swell, but I’m not expecting anything over 2ft at this stage from the look of the charts, and that’s also at locations of a more northerly latitude as well.
So as much as I hate to say it, it looks like it’s that time of year again to hang the board up for the next 2-3 months and try and take up something else to keep the arms and shoulders at least semi fit. That way, at least with La Nina kicking in, one can only hope we see some early tropical developments in late November, reassuring us SE Qld surfers as to why we choose to surf in this neck of the woods. 
Well the ATC 9K HD from Sports cameras has arrived.
I have mounted it on my housing and am ready to hit the surf.
I was unsure about which adhesive to use for the base mount but in the end how could you go past a product with the name “Liquid Nails” right?? Well, we will see..
Now I just need to learn how to use a video editing program and we are set…
I want this….
Along with the EOS 60D dSLR announcement today, Canon is also unveiling new lenses and teleconverters . The most interesting glass is probably the EF 8-15mm F4L, which is the company’s first zoomable fisheye lens. The glass is designed for use with full-frame cameras such as the EOS 5D Mark II, and will replace the aging 15mm F2.8 optics.
