All of the charts today were showing a mid size 1.9m swell on 11 second period, and you could definitely see those waves coming through as 3-4 footers. But interspersed at regular intervals were some solid 6, 8 and even 10ft sets coming through (One landed on my head as it closed out the whole bay). It was a pure bombie day, starting down in the national park with some all-time waves in there, and then up in town for the late arvo circus. More please…

Al wanted some pics of the backcountry lines in Tenjin, so here they are…

Catch the gondola to the top, then a chair to the peak and decide if you want to go left or right all the way back down to the gondola station (red dot). There’s a backcountry gate that gets you over into a bigger valley off to the left (Avy gear required, but it’s supposed to be epic). The top groomed area has a couple of OK lines, but it’s all quite short.

Awesome line on the right side of the main valley down through tree lined gullies.

View back up at the same line. When you get back to the valley floor there’s a nice speedy cat track back to the gondola station.

Then just catch the big 20-person gondola back to the top and do it all again. Each lap takes about 15 > 20 mins and on a good day you could do a new line every run. It’d be pretty hit and miss without fresh snow though.

There’s been a great summer of north east swell as La Niña has pushed big low pressure systems down from Queensland out into the Tasman Sea. We tend to miss the full brunt of these swells which get blocked by Jervis Bay, but the first proper Autumn South swell arrived like clockwork today, fanned by crisp Westerly winds. Hopefully we’ll see plenty more like it over the next few months…

Tick tock, tick tock…

After a humid, wet summer, Autumn has come early with some beautiful crisp mornings, offshore winds and perfect mid-20s temperatures. It’s the best time of year down here…