Another week of decent 4-5 ft swell but average weather conditions and onshores for Cronulla surfers for most of this week.
Today's early conditions are the pick of the week and hopefully a sign of things to come-with a light westerly offshore blowing the 3-4 ft faces clean,so don't waste it and hopefully you got some for the early.
Yesterday the swell peaked and is forecast for a slow decrease until a 1-2 ft offshore low on Friday/Saturday morning before a fresh southerly blows through bringing with it a new solid south swell for the start of the new week.
Despite average weather conditions at North Cronulla Beach, the Cronulla Sharks Boardriders kicked off their contest season with a hard-fought contest on Saturday.
Fueled by Beach Burrito and Red Bull and Sponsored by Parkes Electrics the solid surfing conditions meant the six divisions worked hard to get their results.
Jay Brown took the Open final from Hayden Blair, but it was the women surfers who took centre stage when April Davey and Grace Gosby almost caused boilovers with their age group results.
April won the women's final over Giselle Abrahams before cutting a swathe through the u16's to finish runner up to Oscar Cafe.
In the u13's Grace also fought off the boys to make the final before also finishing runner up-a great result for international Women's Day.
Bragging rights in the competitive o45's went to Rich Brown with Tommy taking the u10 Micro final.
In the Sydney Surf Pro Junior at Manly Beach Jarvis Earle finished third in a star-studded final where Ethan Hartge (Caves Beach) and Charli Hurst (Port Kembla) took out the top honours.
The elite two-day junior event served as the curtain-raiser to the Sydney Men's and Women's Challenger Series events and it is NSW's biggest surfing event,running from March 8 through 14 at Manly.
It wasnt such good news for Connor O'Leary who finished fourth in his second round heat yesterday-Connor was never really in it and was beaten by the USA's Ian Crane and evergreen Ozzie Nick Squires who progressed into round three.
Top seed Julian Wilson came to Manly as a clear favourite. Wilson's campaign started well, with the Australian Olympic Team hopeful taking an early lead. In waves that replicated what is expected in Chiba for the 2020 games,he looked like he would comfortably progress until former World Junior Champions Mateus Herdy found a right-hander and launched a solid air-reverse to post an 8.00 and relegate Wilson into third, and out.
Last Sunday It was a different result in Newcastle after a countback crowned Julian Wilson the Surfest Newcastle Pro QS5,000 winner over local Merewether surfer Ryan Callinan
After both surfers totalled scores of 14.27 at the end of the 35-minute final, the Mark Richards trophy was deservedly awarded to the event's form surfer and current World Number 11 for posting the highest single-wave score, an 8.50 for a series of smooth forehand turns on the heat's biggest wave.
Callinan, the goofy-footed World Number 14, was ever-so-close to becoming the first local Surfest winner, using the support of his home town to claim his place in the final - the first time for a Newcastle male athlete in the current man-on-man format. However, Wilson may now lay claim to that title, having moved to the area two years ago with his young family and a further local connection, being coached by Merewether's own and former Surfest finalist Luke Egan.
