Big Swell on the East Coast of Australia

[surf patrol]

Just seen the report on the news of beaches getting closed on the east coast. It looked like there has been some classic surf. Anyone had an epic day today?

[PapaW]

Its just pushing 1ft of mush at the moment. There arn't any solid systems linning up at the moement :( booooo

[passion_of_the_crest]

yea, for all the great expectations of the "greatest waves we've seen in 30 years," me and a buddy went from north bondi to coogee, and saw not one surfer. Either there's a great place that all the locals know about that was going off, or the good sufers just didn't want to get their asses handed to them. Great waves breaking off pancake island about 2km off of coogee beach. dayum.

[orbital]

East coast is pretty huge.. around what area are you talking about. I'm at the top of the east coast in Canada.

[passion_of_the_crest]

East coast is pretty huge.. around what area are you talking about. I'm at the top of the east coast in Canada.

i think we're talkin bout the australian east coast. at least that is what i assumed after reading the title of the original post. waves were the biggest pretty much around sydney, or so people tell me.

[surf patrol]

From the clips there were plenty of tow-in sessions going on. On a swell that size I should think that quite a few beaches were out of control.

[oslo]

There is a clip here: http://www.vg.no/video/videoplayer/player.hbs?id=2907

It's in norwegian, and you'll have to press the "Surfere utfordrer monster-bølger"

The reporter says some of the waves are around 7 meters. The beaches are closed off for the public.

[bluesnowcone]

my mate from jersey has just come back from aussi and he wer saying it was double over head on some days, that might of bee the swell you wer talking about.

[Brian]

I went out...pretty pointless, unless you were at some far out bommie or normally non-breaking point, most of the beaches were unrideable. I was at Bondi, and not one person could get out. I spose you could jump off near the point though...Some of my friends went to deadmans near manly...apparantly was good, I wasnt game for waking up at 5am...