The fresh southerly blew up a nice 3-5 ft sou-east swell yesterday dropping temperatures and giving Cronulla surfers some real waves for a change.
It backed off during the day leaving us with a still surfable 2-3 ft of clean swell this morning but it was hard to find a good wave on the high tide -this should stick around for a few days but the winds will be tending onshore.
The forecast looks ominous with the first real major swell of the season upon us-we will see a steadily building Easterly swell from a building East Coast Low that will smash our coast for a few days.
The swell will be up around the 6-8 ft plus mark but we have a solid week of direct onshore winds as well so dont get too excited.
The North Coasts Dakoda Walters and South African Sarah Baum have won the 2020 Carve Pro World Surf League Qualifying Series 1000 rated event in front of thousands of spectators at Maroubra Beach last weekend.
Both Walters and Baum shone in the punchy three-foot north swell, performing an array of exciting maneuvers to claim victories in their respective divisions.
It was a contest to forget for Cronulla locals with Shane Campbell,Jay Brown and Jordy Turansky just getting through a couple of rounds.
After taking out the Red Bull Airborne Qualifier earlier this week, Dakoda Walters backed up his performance with a giant win at the Carve Pro. Walters was the man to beat all day, consistently blowing minds with a variety of aerial antics and powerful rail turns.
In the final, Walters was able to gain the upper hand against fellow youngster Lennox Chell (Avoca, NSW) thanks to two scores in the mid-to-high six-point range-the next contest in the NSW Pro series is the Mothernest Great Lakes Pro on Feb19-23.
Five seriously strong Wildcard Clubs are set to shake up the nudie Australian Boardriders Battle National Final in Newcastle on February 15th and 16th.
Reigning national champions Merewether Surfboard Club will yet again field a heavyweight lineup including the likes of World Surf League (WSL) stars Ryan Callinan and Morgan Cibilic.
A 2020 Championship tour rookie, Cibilic is pumped to kick off his year surfing for the club he loves to represent.
"Nothing beats surfing for your club and we are such a proud club with a long and proud history of world champions and winners. I can't wait to give the national final a real shakeup on home turf. Hopefully, the forecast plays in our favour and produces solid waves," said Cibilic.
Some of the world's best current, former and up-and-coming World Surf League (WSL) stars will don the comp singlet to help their club in the quest for national glory. Names like Wade Carmichael, Adrian Buchan, Matt Wilkinson, Soli Bailey, Danny Wills, Kieran Perrow, Nikki Van Dijk, Macy Callaghan, Molly Picklum, Ethan Ewing, Elouera's Connor O'Leary, Bede Durbidge and Kalani Ball, just to name a few.
Finally in Europe, former World Tour surfer American Nat Young has won the first-ever QS5,000 Pro Taghazout Bay in historic fashion , claiming victory in the Final bout against Alonso Correa (PER) held in pumping surf at the world famous Anchor Point.
Stop No. 1 on the 2019 World Surf League European Qualifying Series , the Pro Taghazout Bay has been graced with world-class conditions and incredible performances by the some of the world's best surfers, culminating this week with Young's victory.
