Where did you surf today?

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thePup said..

MickPC said..
Can't believe I've had 3 good days in a row with hardly anyone out
Asked a mate where he'd been the last couple of days when it was overhead & he said there hasn't been waves has there lol

see ya tomoz mate - my turn

it will be flat

No where today but Lacey /Mac look out I am watching you

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Ted the Kiwi said..

thePup said..

MickPC said..
Can't believe I've had 3 good days in a row with hardly anyone out
Asked a mate where he'd been the last couple of days when it was overhead & he said there hasn't been waves has there lol

see ya tomoz mate - my turn

it will be flat

LOL.....nah waves aren't as loud as last night, but they're making enough noise to indicate it will probably be chest high

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Ted the Kiwi said..
Just taking the P155 ! Hope you boys get some waves over there. I guess-timating by the timing of your last posts Mick that its your "Friday' night - hope you had a good one

haha I know mate...grabbing another Pale Ale, enjoying the mid morning tide kick swells lately. Its been funny, wind has kicked in cross-shore sending in 4 or 5 regs. They've bailed & then its backed off for me & one or 2 peeps just as consistency & size has picked up...basically been the pattern for 5 weeks now. Suits my afternoon shifts & beer drinking habits perfectly

Surf started off bumpy then cleaned right up for a excellent session. Hardly a soul around and was cool watching peeps on the next bank slotting in,just a great angle.

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thePup said..
Shin high - barely Ted was right waste of time

Sorry to hear that Pup. Did not mean to put the kiss of death on yr session If its any consolation its crap here as well. Glad to see Chrispy and Tux are getting some.

Lasted 20 minutes today . Too paranoid about that Noah that's hanging around. It was spotted this morning shadowing a school of Salmon. Not many out surfing . Noticed in the news there's a big one hanging around Newcastle as well. My regular spot should be ok tomorrow when the wind comes back around NE.

Reports from down here reckon its a white pointer around 15 feet or more long and a tiger shark as well. The flags were up this morning but not many takers. I heard its a big white pointer up there as well.

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thePup said..
Shin high - barely Ted was right waste of time

Yeah just got back, not much there & uber blowy. Guess the swell period got too narrow. Looking good for the beachies tomorrow

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smh said...
Reports from down here reckon its a white pointer around 15 feet or more long and a tiger shark as well. The flags were up this morning but not many takers. I heard its a big white pointer up there as well.

Fark... Keeps getting worse...

UPDATE: 4:54PM: SHE is big, but is she the biggest?

Newcastle Herald photographer Peter Stoop has snapped some frames of a ??very large shark?? cruising off Burwood Beach on Thursday only minutes after onlookers watched on from land as an injured dolphin was being chased offshore.

As Stoop was photographing the shark, which was described as being more than three metres long, a second large shark was seen biting into another dolphin near the breakwall on the northern edge of Nobbys Beach.

Lifeguards have confirmed that both sharks were ??very large??, but could not get a good enough look to confirm whether could either may have been the five-metre, 1700kg goliath which has roamed the city?s beaches since Saturday.

Lifeguards on jetskis powered from Nobbys down to the southern end of Merewether and off Burwood beaches after 2pm on Thursday following reports that a very large shark was feeding off something.

There have been reports that it may have been a 2.5-metre long bronze whaler.

As Stoop hovered overhead, he snapped another shark believed to be larger and possibly a great white.

After the lifeguard confirmed the Burwood shark, he was called back to Nobbys where he confirmed that the other large shark had fed on a dolphin, leaving part of the carcass behind as the jetski got close.

local beach closed here on the weekend after a shark siting - turned out to be a seal .

2 of us surfed quite happily with him on Tuesday night .Big bugger but didn't worry about us .

was a surfer chased out of the same beach few years back by another obviously much crankier seal .

talking to a few local fishermen been a few big ( really big ) great whites spotted off the coast here the last few weeks

There must have been a few out, unless the media are playing games again.
Can someone tell me what the red flag means exactly? Is it beach closed, or is it specific to sharks

www.dailytelegraph.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes

Up at 5:30 for me drove all the way down to Trigg and gave up, went home and got back into bed before work. The issue up my way is the tides are too low so early. Mid morning seems to be it, just as i start working

It the terrorgraph JB. Good sport section and that's about it the rest borders in tabloid. Monday headline was giant maneaters stalk our beaches or something.

But the red flag is just surf closed, used for all times they close the beach be it large surf, whatever.

Those photos I think are from earlier in the week.
It was treated as a bit of a novelty at first, lot less people out as the weeks gone on but been people out each day.
They haven't really been in that close to shore.
Until today, supposedly one was munching on a dolphin bout 20m from the beach.

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Ted the Kiwi said..

SP said..

It the terrorgraph JB. Good sport section and that's about it the rest borders in tabloid. Monday headline was giant maneaters stalk our beaches or something.

Beautiful summation there SP.

There was footage on the news of people swimming in the shore break today from Newcastle beach in front of the lifeguards - who said that they can not stop them - just educate them of the dangers. It did not look like hundreds more like 5 or 10 of them. It was so hot today its almost understandable. I went for a swim this arvo and it was beautiful. Shame those Newcastle fellas are unable to enjoy it for a 6th day. Certainly makes the breaks down this way a bit busier than normal - lets hope that shark clears off shortly

Theirs talk almost a few i know that say one could be a faiths female and they are wondering if it could be a birthing issue.

SP i also heard talk about a photo that showed some surfers and the shark swimming under them blissfully unaware. Photo was taken from the chopper. I can't find the reference now but their was actually no picture.

Thanks for the info on flags. I know its been discussed in the shark threads but a flag system is used in South Africa via the Shark spotters program that is really good

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Ted the Kiwi said..
I was in Newcastle for a meeting this morning and swung past Merewether around 7:30am and counted 3 blokes on body boards - the rest of the place was deserted. Weird ! ! ! But to be fair I would be staying out as well.

Even though we are not very far from you SP I have not even thought about them whilst surfing the last few days. Weird for me.

SMH - that thing down your way sounds far to big for my liking ! ! ! Maybe you should just be on the 666 until it heads away

It's big Ted. One of boys said to me in the car park as I was getting ready to go out " mate you've got that paddle as a weapon" I can see it now chomp paddles gone and I'm next . Some good banks starting to shape up here. You ought to be due for a trip down this way.