Is just my imagination or have the swells over the last few months lost thier grunt? It seems when there has been a desent swell downs south like 3m or so, Perth (rotto) has been lucky to get over 2m. I think most surfers in WA would agree it was a strange weather cycle over the winter with only a few strong fronts. I was watching an interview the other day where a bloke from Tassy was saying how there is no snow on the mountains down there anymore and storms that would last for three days a few years back now pass through in hours. I hope im wrong and maybee I am as the swell that hit today appeared to be as forecasted.

On another note I really didnt give much time to the whole world champ thing but now that you can watch it on the TV I think its great. Power of TV hey.

yeah, where was that swell today? it was showing 3.5 down the coast......

Yeah the storms just dont have the grunt that they had in prevous years. Normally a 3.5m swell down the coast ment a 2.5 to 3.0 m swell here. Global warming or maybee just the weather cycles but change is in the air.

La nina maybe ??

we had head high waves in Bunno a few weeks back and the naturaliste buoy said 2.0m !! Usually takes a lot more down south to do that.

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au_rick said...

we had head high waves in Bunno a few weeks back ...

Does it get waves often? I had one of the best surfs of my life as a grommet out at Quindalup, as sheltered a spot as you can get. There was a big N storm. We went to a number of breaks on the west coast looking for a wave, any wave, but they were all blown out. We went home just as the wind swung SW and it went offshore out the front. We watched the 1'ers for a while, played some pool, then thought bugger it and paddled out. Because those sandbars are quite a way offshore we only realised it was actually 3' when we were paddling out, and the sandbanks were the perfect shape for looong lefthanders peeling along, hollow and perfect. They were totally wind waves, not powerful, but super short period and just one after the other continuously, no sets. It only lasted for about 2hrs, but we didn't even get close to each other after the first 5min. We were just catching wave after wave, and you could hook in anywhere along the banks so we only saw each other from a distance. Eventually it dropped off to the 1' it looked originally, right as a few more people paddled out. I wonder if the guy I was with remembers it? Haven't seen him for years. Good surfer, running a surf school now I think.