South magnets the only hope

Hello Friends,

Mostly clear skies as Monday got into gear along the beaches. Wind was out of the WNW at 12-15 kts at 0730 and the 9 second period swell at sea was clocking in at 1.4 metres from the SSE Your only hope of a wave will be at stretches with good exposure to the south where for the most part you can expect knee to waist with the odd chest-ish bomb. At report writing time, the tide was coming into a modest 1.37 m high at 1000. It’ll be back to low at 1530.

The swell models bring us no joy this morning. The GFS prediction shows swell periods mostly bumbling around in the gutless 6-8 second range for the next 7 days. Swell heights are predicted to be under to well-under a metre across the period as well.

I’m going out for a look around, so expect some pics later this morning.