How the Waves Were today (Friday) Epic Surf, Sea Lice alert, Moon Jellyfish alert, Hurricane Irene Surf Report Friday night (at 8:00 PM) and Surf Forecast for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted August 26, 2011)


Today and last night, How the Waves were…And, the 4 picture sequence (not 5) I have here is from the awesome Photographers of Gulfster.com .

An early Satellite Beach overhead wave ;), Image 4 of 5 in a very large sequence set of photos. I have 4 more of this sequence shot by the awesome photographers of Gulfster.com
An early Satellite Beach overhead wave ;), Image 1 of 5 in a very large sequence set of photos. I have 4 more of this sequence shot by the awesome photographers of Gulfster.com

Saturday morning update.  (This original post done Friday nite) The buoys just cleared our really fast, the 20 mile just dropped from 11 feet to 8, so we may only see waist high at the Cape and Chest high down south.  I’ll do a visual by 6:30 AM.  Maybe it held a little more, we’ll see.  Below is Friday nites post…

The Jetty , Harbor break at 7 Pm to 8 Pm  Thursday night when I watched it with 2 guys out,  12 to 15 foot faces, NNW winds almost perfect glass, but not quite,  with nothing smaller on the set waves.  But there was definitely a few larger rogue waves.  I watched a number of 15 foot faces based on seeing the rider, out 400 yards, but quite visible.

Image 2 of a many image sequence, but just 5 here for now, from I believe Satellite Beach.  By Gulfster.com
Image 2 of a many image sequence, but just 5 here for now, from I believe Satellite Beach. By Gulfster.com

Those that were not there, and those not obsessed about watching the size of waves, might say otherwise.  However myself another surfer, and one of the two guys that came in confirmed the size 🙂

Image 3 of a sequence.  Gulfster.com photographer
Image 3 of a sequence. Gulfster.com photographer

Today,  I surfed by the Jetty.  Solid 8 to 10 foot faces 7 to 8:30 Am with some bigger rogue sets.  Perfect glass with NW winds.  Yesterdays post covered what we should hope to see.  When the size  dropped and I was tired, we went to Officers Club and it was solid 10 to 12 foot faces (double overhead on the sets) with maybe an larger set everyone once in a while.  The winds were NW to WNW, and were totally blinding.  At the Jetty, no issues with spray in the eyes.

Saturday, we should see chest high sets in the Cape, and shoulder high down by Satellite.  West winds in the 12 to 18 mph range.  Should be really fun and probably epic.

Sunday,  I don’t see much, but perhaps some waist high waves will linger.

Image 4 of a 4 image sequence.  Gulfster.com photographer
Image 4 of a 4 image sequence. Gulfster.com photographer

We have a TD 10 headed our way from Africa that may already be showing up on the swell models.

Have a great sesh Saturday.

oldwaverider

One thought on “How the Waves Were today (Friday) Epic Surf, Sea Lice alert, Moon Jellyfish alert, Hurricane Irene Surf Report Friday night (at 8:00 PM) and Surf Forecast for Cape Canaveral n Cocoa Beach (posted August 26, 2011)

  1. I was out at Harbor boardwalk thursday evening too and it was bombin! biggest surf ive ever seen in cape! Those couple guys that were out there had some b_ _ _s!

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