East Coast onslaught - photos
So many waves, so little time! Well it felt like that when a Hawaiian-style ENE swell besieged the East Coast on Monday. Long-lined, deep-period swells turned dormant bomboras into top to bottom slabs. Meanwhile, frantic preparations took place when surfers realised what was happening at their locals.
Here's a first taste. There's plenty more to come...
Beau Mitchell, Queenscliff Bommie, Pic Agnes Durlik
Outside Bower, Pic Agnes Durlik
Lachlan Rombouts, Northern Beaches, Pic Simon Hayward
South Maroubra, Pic Jeremy
Sam Schumann, Mid North Coast, Pic Shane Chalker
North Coast
Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, Pic Charlie Straumeitis
Far South Coast, Pic Clarrie Bouma
Shark Island, Pic Michael Jones
Northern Beaches, Pic Simon Hayward
Ben Buckler, Pic Tyson Millar
Meanwhile at Cape Fear...Richie Vaculik, Pic Ed Sloane/Red Bull Content Pool
Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, Pic Charlie Straumeitis
Queenscliff Bommie, Pic Agnes Durlik
Northern Beaches, Pic Simon Hayward
Late afternoon, South Coast
Coogee, Pic Andrew Worssam
Tim Dickson, Dixon Park, Pic Fi Fike
South Coast
Comments
Thanks SN and more to come ....
That is a hell of a collection, Stu, the northern beaches left never photographed before ridden in such conditions. That should be worth a few quid in a frame up 2107 way this xmas. Ta.
Could this be the same peter b who had a cheeky little letter published in the SMH today? thanks for that one mate, I was going to send one in saying the same thing, but I rarely get published by that formerly august paper of record any more!
Impressive but unruly for the most part. Still haven't seen anything surface from deep south yet maybe the wrong swell direction.
I'd say it was reef options only . Which for the most part rules out most of the Far South .
Rain and proceding howling NE wind may have damaged the sand .
Personally i'd be more interested in NE Tassie or what uniqueness was delivered to Flinders .
The gunnery?
Jokes jokes
Yes that one brought a smile to my face. Challenging wave that one.
@memlasurf; I'm guessing the Rivo/Bar locals will be keeping it very quiet what happened down there.....
Very impressive
That wave of Lachlans is a bomb
Yeah Lachlan's wave is the bomb. Tow or paddle?
That is sick!!
Looks paddle by the size of his board I reckon
Yes I thought so too. But saw others at North Narra on longer boards towing. Anyway serious effort and the paddle out must have a lottery...... and hellish!!!!!
Lachlan was riding a 12 foot board(!) and paddled it.
Love it.
Chose the right week to come east!!!!
some serious power there by the shape of some of those waves.......beautiful.
I'm uncharacteristically lost for words.
Those are some serious waves in anyones books.
Majestical.
fark those charging guys have nuts! i wish i had so much time today and tomorrow
surely lachlans wave is the (amongst) the biggest paddled into on the east coast ever
This is all amazing. Stoked everyone got amongst this and these pics are coming through. Unreal.
That pic of coogee by worssam, I mean shit. What the hell is up with that? It looks like it's a photo shop job doesn't it? Waves aren't supposed to get that big on this coast! Just awesome.
Edit...actually my phone was messing with the orientation of the picture so it morphed into a monster. On another look it just looks huge, but quite reasonably so.
peterb, that left has been photographed before mate, with tow crew on it . I think it might have been TC , BL and crew at the joey... 2005 or some time around then .anyways classic photos all the same! times like this i sorta wish i was still living over there?
Incredible waves alright. Great to see people prepared and willing to challenge natures fury. Epic.
Got to give a big wrap to anyone who had a crack at those behemoths and no doubt felt their wrath at some stage.
If anything, a stark reminder of how far I am fitness wise at the moment from anything above 6ft!
Number 3 northern beaches just particularly mental, in a series of mental pics. Hard to believe one that good and that big, and how does one get out in those conditions?
So many questions, will have to pick my jaw up.
Keep 'em coming stu, you must have a million.
Am I going mad or can I see another big high pressure system about to park over NZ and send more easterly swell this way??!
That Coogee pic a beauty too. Was watching that break on Sunday just a bit, you could theoretically catch one from there into the beach, or possibly even have stepped off into the ground floor of the lifesavers clubhouse at south end. :-)
Queenscliff Bommie, Bower, Dixon Park - more secret spots exposed! Next you'll be giving people directions to get to Bondi. Will you stop at nothing?
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Be like Gary: Don't expose it for the clicks, do it for the chicks.
Incredible just how barrelly those first two are for the size. And Lachlan's one, wow
far out. i love this country.
If you have the audacity to not only putting a efen camera onto shark Island then
constantly mention it how about you mention most of the big left handers being
surfed I been informed are Nth Narrabeen did you hear that Nth Narrabeen. Picture
6 is Angourie point at Yamba and picture 16 is Sandon Point there you go share the
knowledge. By the way Cronulla was crap during this swell.
Farkkkk Awesome waves Mother nature turnin it on for the young guns!The shot of young Sam on the Mid Nth coast was only a smaller wave! I watched for an hour before deciding my 6"10 was'nt big enough after seeing 15ft + sets roll through!
What an amazing swell event! A little different across the East Coast today.
I remember checking Deadies on Sunday afternoon and I've never seen any ocean so wild and big. 12-15ft storm waves draining the whole shelf almost dry, with the explosion from impact reaching as high as the cliffs. A true sight to behold.
The destruction seen that Monday morning along the Shelly Beach/Bower stretch was like an earthquake had ripped through. Cement slabs of footpath ripped apart, restaurants destroyed and the toilet block totally gone, leaving just the pipes sticking out of the ground.
I remember when the rattling north-east wind backed off overnight and the rain stopped, and the wind swung offshore.
The sight Monday morning was something like I've never seen in Manly before. The beach was 10-12ft+, straight offshore while Queensy Bommie was enormous with huge spitting pits cleaning up by the set.
I took on Fairy Bower but the strength and size of the swell saw no easy entry into sets, just freight-training 8-10ft walls pushing head fast onto the boulder strewn point. The gusty westerly devil wind was no good at all, sending 1-2ft chops back up the face. I paddled back in without catching a wave.
Me and a mate headed up the coast and scored pumping point break waves for days, a swell event burnt long into the memory banks.