- westerlies 19th march / daily / March 19, 2013 / tom
Starting to feel a bit like Autumn today, how nice was it to see a cool offshore breeze coming off the land a first light? Yep a straight proper westerly was grooming up the 3 foot swell very ...
- standard coffs 5th february / daily / February 5, 2013 / tom
Back to regular type waves on the Coffs coast today. This is the sort of stuff we get most of the time... 2-3 foot waves, clean in the mornings, seabreeze afternoons, fun surf on the beachbreaks. It's not ...
- perfectness 11th september / daily / September 11, 2012 / tom
It's days, weeks, months like these that make you damn happy you live on the mid north coast of New South Wales. The beach at sunrise has been just perfect for so long now that you sort of ...
- sundee hit-out 30th july / daily / July 30, 2012 / tom
Last Sunday of the month yesterday and that means one thing for Woopi boardriders... its time for their monthly hit-out! and like the previous two months the swell arrived just in time. After some tiny waves through the start of ...
- thin gaps 3rd may / daily / May 3, 2012 / tom
Only a thin gap between the horizon and a thick blanket of cloud gave me any chance of some colour in today's post. The constant overcast conditions lately makes its hard to get away from the dullness. You ...
- northern groms 31st october / daily / October 31, 2011 / tom
Saturday was a bit of a "one day wonder" come Sunday it was back to a weak nor-east wind swell, even the Woopi boardriders canned their monthly bash after the usual 7am headland meeting, they decided to aim for next ...
- swells up 27th october / daily / October 27, 2011 / tom
Waves over head-high??... now thats something we haven't had much of lately. So nice to see some half decent lines rolling in this morning. That little spike in swell predicted for today and in tomorrow might just deliver on its ...
- thunder 26th october / daily / October 26, 2011 / tom
How's that storm last night eh?? Coffs coast had some ground shaking thunder and massive lightning strikes right up till midnight with plenty of rain to boot. It all came up the coast with a strong southerly change which we ...
- weekend fun 24th october / daily / October 24, 2011 / tom
Such a cracking weekend weather wise, it must have been around the 25 degrees mark with bucket loads of sunshine both days. Don't know about everyone else but I spent nearly every daylight hour on the sand or in the ...
- moments in september 2011 / daily featured / October 11, 2011 / tom
Near flatness over the last few days gives us a chance to post up a few of our favourite moments from the month of September. The first month of spring isn't known for its epic swells and there were no ...
- time 2 burn 8th sept / daily / September 8, 2011 / tom
Most of us can get a good couple of hours beach time in before school/work now the days are getting longer. You've had a surf, hung at the beach, talked to some mates, soaked up some morning sunshine and its ...
- new lens 7th september / daily / September 7, 2011 / tom
The pics in todays post are not only from this morning, but also a quick water-shoot I did last night and a northern headland. A new lens port for my housing arrived, so I was stinging to get it wet. ...
- spring time 1st september / daily / September 1, 2011 / tom
First day of spring and it sure feel like it! You don't wanna be missing the early beach visit this time of year, the sun's up early enough for everyone to sneak a morning surf or swim in before work.... ...
- contrasts 29th august / daily / August 29, 2011 / tom
At 4.30 this morning I was watching giant waves break in Tahiti via the live web cast of the current WCT event. It was a massive contrast when the sun rose here on the east coast and I ventured down ...
- day at the beach 31st july / daily / August 1, 2011 / tom
Two days of stunning weather over the weekend. The warm sunshine, light winds and clean water made another appearance for the blessed folks at the Woopi boardriders club on Sunday. Their favourite little back beach was a wave haven for ...
- happy holidays 5th july / daily / July 5, 2011 / tom
First day of school holidays yesterday and grommies couldn't have been happier! warm sunshine, light winds and a clean east swell that was just big enough to push the light weights along some fun crisp walls. The week ahead looks ...
- full but fun 16th feb / daily / February 16, 2011 / tom
The skies cleared yesterday arvo producing a nice evening and cracking start to today. Waves were fun at places that could handle the big 7.30am high tide. A bright yellow sun backlit the surfers for a good hour ...
- december in review / daily featured / January 3, 2011 / tom
December wasn't a total disaster for Coffs coast surfers, yeah we did have the odd flat spell, yeah it did rain a lot, but if you were keen enough there was a rideable sort of wave nearly every day. There ...
- trying 14th december / daily / December 14, 2010 / tom
Cracking summer's morning out there today. A light breeze, warm sunshine and the waves are trying to increase. It was pretty much flat yesterday, but there is a lazy one foot of swell flopping on to the mid tide banks ...