The third east coast low in a month has really left its mark on the Cronulla beaches, with all the sand dragged off the shore and deposited out the back leaving the banks devastated.
The swell picked up on Sunday for a fantastic day of surfing, light offshore winds and a building swell left everywhere firing until it got too big on dark before the 80km sou-easter blew through making it wild and unsurfable on Monday.
Tuesday morning the swell was still solid and breaking half a km out to sea with a light offshore, there were a few waves at North Cronulla if you had a big board and were a good paddler, but I got caught inside badly and got washed back into the beach only catching two waves on my eight-footer.
The usual reefs were pumping for the local big wave crew who have been kept busy with the consistent huge swells and I took today's pics this morning at the Wall and at Shark Island yesterday, where it was a bit slow and too east.
The forecast looks like a COVID chart with this swell dying super fast as the low dissipates and heads out to sea-leaving it almost flat by Friday/Saturday.
The winds will be offshore all week-hence the swell dropping, but the clean winds should still give us some nice waves for the week.
This morning's conditions are about as good as it's going to get this week, the swell still sitting around the 4-6ft mark albeit it with a bit of dirty water from the river run-off but there are some really nice waves on the beach.
On Sunday we get another southerly change so surfers should make the most of the waves we have until it's all blown out to sea.
Hawaiian Coco Ho and Brazilian Filipe Toledo have won the Michelob ULTRA Pure Gold Rumble At The Ranch, a one-day, winner-take-all surf showdown in the perfect waves at the Surf Ranch in Lemoore, California.
16 of the world's best surfers who were living in the US paired up for the first-ever mixed tag team event, with prize money going to charity.
Inspired performances from Ho and Toledo saw them defeat Olympic qualifiers Tatiana Weston-Webb (BRA) and Kanoa Igarashi (JPN) to take the event title thanks to a near-perfect wave from Toledo (9.67 out of a possible 10) and the highest scoring wave of the day.
The winning pair nominated Surfrider Foundation's LA Chapter as the recipients of a $10,000 charitable donation in their name.
At the Woolworths NSW Junior titles Avoca's Lennox Chell and Northern Beaches Lily MacDonald have taken out the top honours in the Under-18 division pres, by Ocean and Earth at Sawtell Beach.
Goofy-footed dynamo and former Under-14 NSW Champion Lennox Chell will be heading back to the Central Coast with his head held high after taking out the division.
Chell put on a consistent display of backside rail-surfing in the final to finish with a respectable 12.93 two-wave heat total and claim the title ahead of fellow goofy-footer Cronulla's Jarvis Earle. He finished second and goes to the upcoming 2020 Australian Junior Surfing Titles, which will take place in Queensland at the end of the year.
Lily Macdonald fought a tight battle with her fellow finalists to claim the coveted Under-18 Girls title. The exciting natural-footer picked off a handful of decent right-handers in the final to post a solid 13.93 two-wave heat total and get the win by a slim 0.2 margin ahead of fellow northern beaches surfer Cedar Leigh-Jones (Avalon).
Cronulla Boardriders women's champion April Davey finished in a respectable 5th spot.