Great to see some reasonable weather creeping back into town after the wild conditions we experienced over the weekend. Saturday night was completely off the hook with quite a bit of damage occurring around our beaches. Being a Firefighter, I’ve seen some radical stuff over the years but things were literally going sideways around 2am Sunday morning while we were out attending to varying domestic emergencies.
At one stage the footpaths was practically none existent as a river of water flowed down the roads. The 130 km an hour winds, equal to speeds for a category 2 tropical cyclone, made driving through horizontal sheets of rain quite difficult at times.
There weren’t too many places to surf in the huge swell. Bondi had a few, along with rare novelty surf spot, Nielsen Park. As usual, the pretty little harbour bay was quite crowded but at times had some fun rides. Here is a little video from there in 1974 which was a partially crazy year for storms, the one in May that year totally wiped out the east coast and it took many years for the sand that was lost, to return. Quality is a little rough in this old video but it shows the place wasn’t lacking a crowd even back then. Click HERE.
The water temperature has dropped a few degrees today with this north wind up welling but there is still plenty of swell around. Go enjoy it!
Billy
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