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Swells die down

what a difference a day makes, no big walls of water exploding over the rocks today back at Avalon, there is still a good swell running into the beach and I had a great late arvo session at " Off Rocks ", was pretty cold coming in, like I was not too cold out in the water with my wetsuit on, but as soon as I came in and my feet hit the sand it was freezing, so like how the boys started a fire on the dune at the car park.

Waves, Waves and Whales

The scene of Newports beached Whale as seen from Bilgola Headland ( see previous post ) Avalon beach, more like a washing machine and check all the salt spray coming up at Bangally big set rolling through underneath me looking like it will break into the trees and another big wave, rarely see waves breaking here rogue bomb way out in the ocean
awesome
!!!!! a lot of energy there North Avalon headland, with Kilcare Heights and Boudi form Central coast in the background Big clouds on the horizon Whale beach now, and this is just amazing to watch, these big waves smashing on to the rocks. On a normal day, there would be at least half a dozen Koreans fishing off those rocks Was just surfing out here a few days ago, but these waves are breaking so much further out to sea, it is quite incredible for me to see

yep, definitely no rock fishing today, would not last very long, if you could even make it out there


if only you could harness that power, I mean look at it, it's like a few sticks of dynamite have just gone off













every now and then at Palm Beach a nice little beachie would peel like this, but very shifty
waves under the "Joey " check this out, couple of guys out at, well, don't know what this spot is called a sI 've never seen people surf out there before, paddling for the wave big drop check the size of the wave and the size of the house
back to Whale Beach for another look at the power


same spot, but seen from the top as I head home awesome

This looks cold, great wave, but damn it, that just looks too cold for me

 

A look at that swell ( that's now hitting Fiji as I type this )

big mounds rolling into Bilgola breaking waaaaaaay out 2 black things caught my eye out in the ocean as I drove past Newport, so I pull over, and it is 2 guys out kitesurfing now check the size of the kite sail and the size of the wave breaking you can just make out the surfer, and this is one of the smaller waves on a reform on a bigger wave, but check the bombs way out back bus size white wash hitting Bilgola I wanted to have a better look at what these guys are doing, so I head up to Newport headland



might not look like much, but from where I am standing that's waves breaking way out from the reef, where I've never seen waves break before









Bilgola I have never seen a wave break taht far out at Bilgola. Keep in mind that on a low tide, waves break further out, and right now it is high tide

so want to try out kite surfing

after check out a few more beaches, I check out a spot called brown water between collaroy and long reef, doesn't break very often, and am blwon away that no one is out there surfing these lefts with the headlands of Mona Vale, Newport and Whale beach in the background

another surprise, Dee Why point looking very angry and no one out Long Reef washing machine in the distance now this spot doesn;t get surfed often, Deadmans at Fairy Bower

why we love living north of manly ok, time to go into town for my meeting

Big Storm has hit, biggest swell in 5 years

Before taking the girls to school we pass by one of our favourite walks, Bangally headland, and it is an incredible sight to see the angry ocean unleash its fury on the rocks below. Then we drive to North Avalon carpark, the wind was so srong, check the video below but turn down your sound as the microphone just picks up the wind ( really noisy ) then I check out South Avalon, that's Little Avalon just getting washed out by monster waves, now compare this scene to this post a few days ago when the ocean was like a lake, what a contrast, actually here is a photo of the above spot on that calm day what a contrast, actually, let's put the two side by side I flipped it, click on photo for larger view massive waves, breaking so far out a video from the headland, panning across ( noisy from wind ) no one swimming in the pool today, check out the white wash ( more like brown wash today ) just washing over the pool continuously another good view of the total wash out of Avalon beach, so much sand is getting moved around by these monsters, will be interesting to see what we are left with and how sand will be taken off the beach

Avalon Lake !

Don't thinkI have ever seen it this flat not a single wave, not even a ripple, dead flat, like a lake, would be great to do some water ski-ing or wakeboarding. I like how I can now see all the rocks and shape of the sand banks in the water the girls never seen it like this either nice colours later that evening

Firing Bawley Point

After Mogo zoo, we stop for lunch at Batemans Bay and then drive further north to take Coco home but not without first stopping to check some surf spots. Bawley Point, you can just see the 3 jet ski's and looks like what promises to be an amazing sunset and bodyboarder getting shacked ! Check how close to the rocks the waves breaks, and how close we can get to the action nice, would love to see the view from inside I'm using my damaged 70-200mm lens ( the two front glass elements fell out and I just popped them back in ) so they are not the sharpest of photos. holy cow, check this out, tow in, and drop straight into a little pearlerof a wave, love how he has to do a cutback on the drop to line it up, and then another stall hmmm, why have the colours gone all funky on me when I saved this as a gif, anyone ? It's taking away now from a nice looking wave While all that surf action is going on, the skies above are lighting up ! just beautiful, feeling blessed to get such an awesome sky to photograph !! Holy Cow part II, monster set comes barreliing through, nice wave !! 2 things, A- the size of it B- how it sucks out below sea level and below the line of the rocks. Would not want to wipe out there so close to the rocks !
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Just spectacular

Coco & the twins and a captivated crowd also happy to be snapping this awesome scenery ( the first photo is more of a deer in headlights shot hehehe )





what to shoot , the picture perfect waves or firing sky bit of an afternoon crowd building, it is a great natural viewing platform







getting pretty dark now, so cranked up the ISO for this one, and what a great stand up barrel ! love love love this photo and this  . . . my favourite , going home after a late arvo session :-)

This Saturday Night Tim Bonython's ASMF comes to Palm Beach RSL

so looking forward to it

been hanging to see this, the initial date, a few weeks back, at Palm Beach, was when we were on our road trip in the outback, so we could not make, but due to popular demand, Tim is having another showing so get yourself some tickets ( go to http://www.asmf.net.au ) and see you there for a beer ( there will be a live accoustic set as well, from a new rising star- bonus )
 

Not just a surf movie, a movie about surfing !

Trailer for Jack McCoy latest movie. Saw film maker Jack McCoy at the post office earlier today ( Aloha ) and he told me his movie was extended by a few days at the local cinema at Avalon. So I told him I would pop down later tonight to come see it And I'm glad I did, Jack gaves us a little intro and background information on his movie. ( wouldn't that be nice everytime you go to see a movie you get a little talk before hand from the film maker ) Jack is known for his many surf movies, but this was more a movie about surfing. So if you get the chance to see it , do it, and see how a young hawaiin princess a century or so ago influenced this whole global culture.
Aloha
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Quick Head Dip ( blink and you'll miss it )