Trip to Noosa May 2019

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See also
surfline.com/surf-report/noosa-heads

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coastalwatch.com/surf-cams-surf-reports/qld/noosa-north-shore

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..and wind:
coastalwatch.com/wind/qld/noosa

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Trip to Great Ocean Road 2018

Collecting information here ahead of going there in mid March 2018.
Plenty of swell in this area, good days for surfing appear to be determined by the wind direction and strength.

Wind

Aust Bureau Meteorology
bom.gov.au/marine/wind.shtml location=vic-mel
Windfinder
windfinder.com/forecast/cape_otway wind and swell table.
Stormsurfing
stormsurfing.com/..sindi_slp surface isobars and wind graphic.

Swell

BOM
bom.gov.au/marine/waves.shtml
bom.gov.au/australia/charts/viewer

Coastal Watch
coastalwatch.com/surf-forecasts/vic/surf-coast-vic

Stormsurf - Indian & Southern Ocean
stormsurfing.com/..indi_ortho_height
stormsurf.com/locals/melbourne.shtml

Magic Seaweed

magicseaweed.com/Victoria-Surf-Forecast/46/ Point Addis:
magicseaweed.com/Point-Addis-Surf-Report/1067
Point Roadnight:
magicseaweed.com/Point-Roadknight-Surf-Report/1069
Anglesea:
magicseaweed.com/Anglesea-Surf-Report/523
Guvvos:
magicseaweed.com/Hut-Gulley-Guvvos-Surf-Report/1068
Fairhaven:
magicseaweed.com/Fairhaven-Surf-Report/1070
Lorne:
magicseaweed.com/Lorne-Surf-Report/522
Wye River:
magicseaweed.com/Wye-River-Surf-Report/1071
Apollo Bay:
magicseaweed.com/Apollo-Bay-Surf-Report/521
Castle Cove:
magicseaweed.com/Castle-Cove-Surf-Report/1072
Johanna:
magicseaweed.com/Johanna-Surf-Report/520

SUP wind foil

"One of the fun aspects of windfoiling (at least at this stage) is that there is a lot to figure out by yourself."

Step one is going to be get a foil (see below);

Step two is going to be work out which board I am happy to drill holes in or I could use one of my Tuttle Fin boards:
Tuttle vs Deep Tuttle:
star-board-windsurfing.com/forum/archive

(more later)

In the meantime have a look here:
mauisurfreport.blogspot.com.au/search/label/wind%20foiling

OR
reefwarriors.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/windsurfing-wave-foiling

OR
sailworks.com/the-gear/windfoils

Bits are here:
windance.com/Kiteboard/Foil-Boards/LP-FRS-Windsurf-Foil

select-hydrofoils.com/en/windfoil

Bits of ideas are here:
windsurfingfin.wordpress.com

Check out Robbie Naish & friends:

Favourite Sydney graphics

 

Wind in Sydney - North Head

www.seabreeze.com.au/weather/nsw/sydney

Swell - the waverider buoy off Dee Why

mhl.nsw.gov.au/Station-SYDDOW

Tide - Fort Denison

seabreeze.com.au/weather/tides/today/fort-denison-nsw

Trip to Byron (May 2016)

surfmore or less

#surfmore Tweets

This is what Surfing is..

ARRAWARRA from steven powter on Vimeo.

A bit crowded and people dropping in sometimes but still a fun and mellow experience. Perfect size waves, rolling gently and smooth surface conditions.

Trip to Great Ocean Rd March 2014

Use bit.ly/gor14 to reach this page.

Collecting information here ahead of going there in mid March 2014.
Plenty of swell in this area, good days for surfing appear to be determined by the wind direction.

Wind

Aust Bureau Meteorology
bom.gov.au/marine/wind.shtml location=vic-mel
Windfinder
windfinder.com/forecast/cape_otway wind and swell table.
Stormsurfing
stormsurfing.com/..sindi_slp surface isobars and wind graphic.

Swell

BOM
bom.gov.au/marine/waves.shtml

Surf Coast on Coastal Watch
coastalwatch.com/surf-forecasts/vic/surf-coast-vic

Indian & Southern Ocean
stormsurfing.com/..indi_ortho_height

Stormsurf
stormsurf.com/locals/melbourne.shtml

LaJolla: - to see what is coming:
http://www.lajollasurf.org/images/maps/ganimind.gif
lajollasurf.org/images/maps/ganimind.gif

Magic Seaweed

magicseaweed.com/Victoria-Surf-Forecast/46/

Point Addis:
magicseaweed.com/Point-Addis-Surf-Report/1067
Point Roadnight:
magicseaweed.com/Point-Roadknight-Surf-Report/1069
Anglesea:
magicseaweed.com/Anglesea-Surf-Report/523
Guvvos:
magicseaweed.com/Hut-Gulley-Guvvos-Surf-Report/1068
Fairhaven:
magicseaweed.com/Fairhaven-Surf-Report/1070
Lorne:
magicseaweed.com/Lorne-Surf-Report/522
Wye River:
magicseaweed.com/Wye-River-Surf-Report/1071
Apollo Bay:
magicseaweed.com/Apollo-Bay-Surf-Report/521
Castle Cove:
magicseaweed.com/Castle-Cove-Surf-Report/1072
Johanna:
magicseaweed.com/Johanna-Surf-Report/520
Princetown
magicseaweed.com/Princetown-Surf-Report/1073
Warrnambool:
magicseaweed.com/Warrnambool-Surf-Report/723
Discovery Bay:
magicseaweed.com/Discovery-Bay-Surf-Report/1075

Sydney Wave Height, Period & Direction

Manly Hydraulics Laboratory wave rider buoy (Sydney)

mhl.nsw.gov.au/Station-SYDDOW

See also the link to the animated version.

The plots show the direction from which the waves coming. For NSW the wave energy will mostly come from the right, top right (NE swell) to the bottom (S swell) of the plot. Long period waves are shown towards the outside of the plot, and short period waves show in the centre of the plot.
Directional spectra plots are able to represent all the waves, good and bad.

Colour shows the wave's power. Wave power is proportional to the wave period and to the square of the wave height. Wave power replaces the more familiar double measure of wave height and period.

But the power measure is energy density m2/deg.Hz (whatthe?)

From Wikipedia:
Wave power formula
Here power is expressed in kilowatts of power potential per meter.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_power
In deep water where the water depth is larger than half the wavelength, the wave energy flux is


with P the wave energy flux per unit of wave-crest length, Hm0 the significant wave height, T the wave period, ρ the water density and g the acceleration by gravity.
When the significant wave height is given in metres, and the wave period in seconds, the result is the wave power in kilowatts (kW) per metre of wavefront length.

Example: Consider moderate ocean swells, in deep water, a few km off a coastline, with a wave height of 3 m and a wave period of 8 seconds. Using the formula to solve for power, we get

meaning there are 36 kilowatts of power potential per meter of wave crest.

In major storms, the largest waves offshore are about 15 meters high and have a period of about 15 seconds. According to the above formula, such waves carry about 1.7 MW of power across each metre of wavefront.

Look, we will sort this out and get back to you. Feel free to comment if you are able.

Marrawah TAS

Here is the collection for the trip in April 2012

Forecast(animated)
stormsurfing.com/cgi/display.cgi?a=sindi_slp

Green Point Beach
surfing-waves.com/atlas/..marrawah
Green Point Beach is one of a number of good quality spots around the town of Marrawah

Arthur River
wannasurf.com/../Arthur_River
Directions "go to marrawah and turn left to the arthur river, go to the sign saying edge of the world"
Wave quality: World Class
Experience: Pros or kamikaze only...
Frequency: Very consistent (150 day/year)
Nice barrels, gets pretty big and be careful of cliffs. get in the barrel and hold on for the spit
Atmosphere: big cliffs and rocks. dangerous rips and wild. often drift wood getting washed up.

More Forecasts
LaJolla:
lajollasurf.org/images/maps/ganimind.gif
Select the Aust/NZ (radio button) from the choice then from the forecast drop down list select animation.

Seabreeze: Cape Sorrel is down the coast at Strahan.
seabreeze.com.au/graphs/tasmania_west_coast

Surfline - use this:

Surfline Surf Forecasts

General Weather Forecast

bom.gov.au/tas/forecasts/farnorthwestcoast

Temotu Feb12

This page was a bunch of links that may be needed for a visit to Temotu Province.
The blog of this trip is at this page:
temotusurf.net

Forecast
From Stormsurfing.com
North Pacific wave height stormsurfing.com/cgi/display.cgi?a=npac_height
and period stormsurfing.com/cgi/display.cgi?a=npac_per
and note the following:

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From Surfline
You may not be able to access these pages without a Premium membership.
Ignore the southern swell in these forecasts:
surfline.com/surfdata/forecast_advanced.cfm

Surfline Text forecast
surfline.com/surfdata/forecast_advanced.cfm..lat=-10.10&slon=165.98

Language - Äiwoo or Ayiwo (ISO 639-3: nfl)
Vocabulary with links to other language resources: language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian
OLAC resources for this language
language-archives.org/language/nfl

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Nagu(the other main language of the region) Swadesh lists in Text form
archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_ngr_swadesh-1/ngr

Maps
All Solomons (unlisted)
goo.gl/maps/mDUB
same map..
g.co/maps/43eyy

Reef and surrounds
maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?

View Pigeon Reef Makalom Pileni in a larger map

Tiavea Rivermouth Surf Report and Forecast

Tropical Trade Winds and Surfing

There is a chain of islands running from Manus Island (PNG) through to (and past) Fiji. These islands are exposed the north Pacific "winter" swell.
The part of these islands that is of interest is their north west coast. Reef passes in that part are likely to have a good wave since as the swell wraps into the pass the trade wind is off-shore.
This graphic on the surf-forecast page is the best one I have seen to show the area and the trade wind.
surf-forecast.com/weather_maps/Nauru
Visit surf-forecast to get an idea of how it changes over the course of the year.

See also:
bruce-white.blogspot.com/p/central-pacific.html

Best surfing view (for me)

lajollasurf.org/gblpac.html

Look for the Orthographic Projection for SW Pacific (185°W 10°S) of wave height. Also of interest is the one for the period of the wave, the quality of the swell, its period. Longer periods mean that the swell is more powerful. These are called ground swell (wrongly) because they do not relate to the local weather condition.

Wave Watch III Data from
polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves
NOAA/NCEP Ocean Modelling Branch

Central Pacific

The weather in the central Pacific

Watch the winter swell. In December to February the storms (yellow, orange & red) are at the top of this graphic.
In June to August storms are at the bottom.
The rest of the time they may be in both places.
The dark blue bits are flat.

Surfline forecast - PNG
Australia:

Click to see the LaJolla choice of pictures (NOAA/NCEP WAVEWATCH III Plots).
SolSurf Retreat on the island of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands.
surfline.com/../tavarua - in Fiji
surfing-waves.com/../solomon_islands/spot/papturas.html

Surfline Surf Forecasts

7 days of waves

No Tsunami - see pohnpeisurfclub.com/captains_log
Catching waves in Pohnpei..

See also:
youtube.com channel BruceWhite

 

 

 

 

 

one wave at Long Reef

Usual story with wide angle lens, surf look smaller, and it can't show the wave behind when it is facing forward.
Anyway, fun wave and a bit of an obstacle course.

Jan 17 GoPro on Sailboard

Hot Southerly on Botany Bay

Map of the area:
maps.google.com.au/maps/ms?..&z=15

Pohnpei Micronesia

Access to all the websites I expect to need during the trip. Shortcut to get here: bit.ly/ppass102

Forecast

What is expected to happen. Each of these has been different in some way for the last 2-3 months. In mid March we will know which one gets it right.
Individual breaks:
surfline.com/surf-spots-breaks/micronesia/
Area forecast & tides. 2 links to the same place:
surfline.com/lola-waves/micronesia/
surfline.com/..micronesia&county=pohnpei
Nearshore model:
surfline.com/coast-swell-wind/micronesia/pohnpei_7275
Warnings & Satellite images for Pohnpei Coastal Waters:
forecast.weather.gov/..zoneid=PMZ173
Magic Seaweed Palikir Swell Forecast:
magicseaweed.com/Pohnpei-Palikir-Pass-Surf-Report/..


Note: No responsibility for any consequence of any action or decision taken on the basis of a forecast or any other content.
(**stars?**)

Reports

What is actually happening:
Surfline Surf Report:
surfline.com/reports Select the other breaks from that page (Palikir pass, Main pass, Mwahnd pass, Central channel & Napali)
Surfline Satellite view:
surfline.com/../p-pass-micronesia_7297/satellite-view
Magic Seaweed Historical Data February:
magicseaweed.com/spot-monthly-overview.php
Tsunami watch NOAA: prh.noaa.gov/ptwc/?region=1

Information

Surfline provide the most information on Micronesia.
surfline.com/travel
Select break from the drop-down list: P-pass, Main pass, Mwahnd pass, Central channel & Napali

News

Twitter Search Feed on Pohnpei:
search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=pohnpei

Other Sites with information

wavehunters.com/../Caroline_Islands.asp
surf.transworld.net/..pohnpei-micronesia

Winter 2009 issue of The Surfers Journal has a 20+ page article on the surf history, reports and photos in surf magazines and the personalities involved in setting up surf tourism in the area:
Vol 18 No. 6

Shortcut to large map bit.ly/5msSvz

View FSM Surf in a larger map

wavehunters.com/caroline-islands..surf.asp (Easy Pass, Main Pass, Palikir Pass, Freddos, Sondens, Spaghettis, Russell's rights)

Tides in Detail

http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/..Pohnpei Harbor

Travel Directory

lostatpohnpei.com/pohnpei-travel-directory

Trip to North Island NZ

Off to surf Northland in NZ so I am setting up one place to access all the websites I need for the trip.

North end of North Island. Shortcut to get here: bit.ly/nz912
to map bit.ly/XM5a6

Overview Tasman Sea

Sweet spot NZ

I wish other countries, regions & places had this:
swellmap.com/sweetspots.php?region=northland
On .surf-forecast.com forecast pages use the link to wavefinder

North Tip

Spirits Bay
swellmap.com/reg_forecasts.php?tag=spirt&pt=surf
surf-forecast.com/breaks/SpiritsBay/forecasts/latest/six_day

NW coast

swellmap.com/reg_forecasts.php?tag=Ship

Go to yosurfer.com for surf reports & forecasts
Next 6 days surf-forecast.com/breaks/ShipwrecksBay-Peaks/forecasts/latest/six_day

NE coast

swellmap.com/reg_forecasts.php?tag=Taupo

Go to yosurfer.com for surf reports & forecasts
Next 6 days surf-forecast.com/breaks/TaupoBay/forecasts/latest/six_day

Piha

swellmap.com/reg_forecasts.php?tag=Piha
CAM surf.co.nz/reports/auckland-west

Coromandel

swellmap.com/reg_forecasts.php?tag=Wmata

Go to yosurfer.com for surf reports & forecasts
Next 6 days at Whangamata Beach surf-forecast.com/breaks/WhangamataBeach/forecasts/latest/six_day
Hot Water
surf-forecast.com/breaks/HotwaterBeach/forecasts/latest/six_day
Also, you could take this as a general note on South Pacific swells:
"best time period for significant swell for Teahupoo, Tahiti during the months of April and May, are during the last two weeks of April and the first week of May."
surfline.com..analysis-of-teahupoos-april-and-may-swell-patterns

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