Newcastle surf april 8
The surf today was blown out and there is a southerly blowing. No one is out and it is totally crap. I went to Merewether and the waves were about four to five foot and it seems like there is the start of a decent swell coming so I will cross my fingers as well as my toes. I went past Nobbies yesterday and it was a bit smaller than today. No waves yesterday either. I do not think that I have missed any thing at all. The wind is coming out of the East or East South East at the forecasters are saying fifteen to twenty knots with isolated thunder storms. The water temperature is an okay twenty degrees which is quite pleasant. The air temperature is twenty degrees Celsius as well. And at the moment the wind is coming from the South South East at 32 kph.
The surfest is over but i missed it all. I have a broken leg so it is hard to get down to the beach. I have only just got some transport now and it is fantastic being able to get around to the beach and have a look. I have been taking some photos and testing my camera so that when there is some surf at least I can take some sick photos. Here is hoping. Adriano da Silva from Brazil won the Surfest contest and there were no aussies in the finals as far as i know. I think it was Jeremy Flores and da Silva in the Grand Final. I saw a bit of it on television but the surf looked pretty bad. The wind had swung around to the south west and was a bit chopped out. Saturday was a better day and the waves were a lot smoother. There was a good coverage on the webcams at surfest.com. Well there was for a few days - quite a number of days the webcam was out of action. I do not know what went wrong but it is not a good look. Professional contests should have professional websites and professional web cams in my humble opinion.
Oh dear i just heard that a kid got killed by a shark near Ballina. It was only the highlights so I do not have any details. It seems like New South Wales has got the most shark attacks at the moment. Not a good statistic I reckon.