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Artificial Waves

This looks very interesting.

Le-Ba Boardriders club round '07

Video taken from the Matt Bryce video "Headlanders". Thanks Brycey. Looks like Pipe

Good Old Days

Matt Bryce gave me these photos the other day at the Lennox Point National Surfing Reserve dedication ceremony. He reckons they are from '87.

Busy

Lach and Kai are living with us now so this blog is suffering because I have not had the same amount of free time as before. The Le-Ba blog is taking a lot more time these days (20-30 hours a week) but I really enjoy doing it. We had an amazing lightning show over the ocean tonight. There was a totally clear sky with fire works supplied by Huey. I found this in an email today "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." - Jack E.Leonard

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my
husband I'd give you poison," and he said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink
it."
That will do for tonight

Stevie K and mates at Lennox

a segment from the 04 Sessions film by Rohan Parnell

Dolphin play bubble rings

Does anyone know a human that can do this with such precision ? Join this visual petition and tell the Japanese people, especially the fishermen of Taijj that the annual slaughter is over.

Looking East

Our run of active monsoon and cyclone development just keeps going with the arrival of TC Funa in our eastern swell window. Its movement over the next couple of days should see Funa hovering in perfect position to send us a good run of ESE swell. A southerly change coming off the Tasman low should fill the rest of the equation for cranking waves

No barrels for Steve

The surf is horrendous again today, onshore winds and poo brown filthy flood water runoff. It might be a while til we can get out there again. This is as close as I am gonna get at the moment. How good is this in the barrel footage?

Lovely weather isn't it ?

So we just had the cyclone that was not a cyclone. All the sand gone and not really any rideable waves. The Richmond River has just experienced our biggest flood since '74 and in some areas even bigger. Water restrictions are off with the latest from Rous Water saying "Rocky Creek dam level on Jan 9 2008 is 101.46%"
Weatherzone has this synoptic forecast chart for Saturday. I reckon that looks a lot like the pattern that we were just subjected to, if not slightly weaker


This was todays surf report from Coastalwatch

"Messy sloppy 2ft waves early this morning. OK for longboards and groms. Dirty water that is unsafe to surf near Richmond river. Reports of a bull along with heaps of other debris washing out the river and out into the surf."

That sounds inviting eh ?

This is the report from Swellnet today

"Onshore conditions with brown water and overcast skies isn't exactly picture postcard stuff. The positioning of a low off the Queensland coast and moving in towards Fraser Island is far from ideal for Ballina Shire, meaning an extended run of onshore winds. Why are those lows getting "stuck" there? Seems like there is an invisible magnet off Fraser Island holding them there. Anyway while that pattern persists unless you are fond of surfing onshores with muddy water then Byron is your best bet."

I have had three surfs in three weeks and I can't see myself getting out there in a hurry.Check the footage below for a reminder of the way it can be around here.

Steve surfing Lennox

My first youtube upload.A video from Marcus Baker with me Dylan and Rusty