I shot this photo in Satellite Beach around 1:30 PM, the afternoon of Hurricane Sandy, right after my session. October 28, 2012, by Oldwaverider 🙂
Is Bertha going to give us Size and Perfection tomorrow morning?
Well, we should see Chest high plus sets Tuesday morning, with offshore winds in the 8-12 mph WSW direction until after 1 or 2, then SW. High tide is 2:36 am, CCB and the Cape.
The swell just hit the 120 mile buoy at 3.9 feet at 13 seconds at 4:50 PM Monday , well today 🙂 It should take around 6-7 hours to hit the beaches. At 13 seconds, it should travel around 20 mph toward the beach. 11 seconds travels around 17 mph, so yeah, I interpolated 🙂
This photo is from Sandy, a photo that I shot right after my surf session, and no, it won’t be this size, but I just wanted to let my Adolescence run rampant with enthusiasm and optimism…
Tuesday morning, for 4 or 5 days running, appears to be the big and offshore day folks 🙂  and…
Tuesday, We are looking at stomach to chest high waves, with bigger sets during the unexpected moments, haha ! Offshore winds appear to be from daybreak until noon. I’ll give you a Sunday night update on the winds, when our favorite online news source can provide that for us, in the required 48 hour window. Wednesday looks fun too, thigh to maybe waist high, and glassy, but the swell drops off fast after lunch perhaps.
The photo could be indicative of some of the set waves that we will be getting Tuesday, August 5 2013 with Tropical Storm Bertha.
The surfer is my friend Mike Melito, and is a shot of him surfing behind his Cocoa Beach home away from home, at fourth street North.
We have a very cool, unique group of Surfer friends in the neighborhood. And I felt rather obsessed to share the still images and video that I have shot the last few years of as many of us as I could.
I apologize that 3 or 4 people, I was just not around, to get as much photos or video as I could, and in some of the photos, I was forced to shoot footage directly into the Sun, which can definitely degrade the photo or footage. But with that said, I do hope y’all enjoy this, I tried to create in a way to bridge the Young and the Old 🙂
THREE YEARS IN REVIEW VIDEO of Johnson Avenue Surfers will be live on January 1st, 2014, yeah tomorrow 🙂
My apologies for not sharing any reports for the last couple of swells we have had; as Y’all know, my main focus, is to share the Awesome Talent and Efforts, of those that surf from around the Neighborhood, by catching them on Camera or Video. This may be at the end of our street, the Jetty, the Cocoa Beach Pier, Satellite Beach and anywhere in between.
Screenshot capture of Johnson Avenue Surfers 3 Years in Review Video – December 2013
It’s taken me 70 or so hours to compile this baby, so that’s why I’ve been away from sharing any updates, and we all know that Surfline, Seaweed and Ross are there for that purpose anyhow 🙂
I will post the Video sometime New Years Day or tonight if I finish in time. The Surfers present are Chad, Don, Dr. John, Sunny, Me (Oldwaverider), Chuck, Chris (Orlando), Joe (Boston), Lacey, Mike (my buddy from Lakeland), Dave (Sunny’s dad), Scooter, Ron, Tim C., Dennis (Core Surf), and Paul (Jeremy’s kin and the Emu Bird Man).
I apologize if I missed anyone, and if I did, and you know I have footage of you, let me know, and I will update the final Video. The Soundtrack part will be provided by Bob Marley, Guerilla Jazz of Hawaii (I hope) and perhaps one other artist. I tried to use the Shins, but they have the U.S. blocked from using their copyright, so the tunes may have some change if YouTube lets me know.
Thanks for letting me capture the Great Times and Awesome Talent & People in sharing this compilation with You!
Thursday, Last Look, Weather.com shows NW winds at daybreak for the Cape, not Cocoa Beach (now CCB does show from dawn to 8ish NW, yeah), but NW also for Satellite Beach and Melbourne Beach. Probably cause CCB is at the base of the big old curve of our coastline, but heck, it still could be NW for CCB.
Thursday Size, the Cape, shoulder to head high, CCB to 2nd light Shoulder to 1 foot over head plus, Satellite Beach Shoulder to 2 foot plus overhead. Tide is Low going high, which ain’t so hot, but at 6 feet and 10 second period swell, it should be breaking outside far enough that the tide won’t affect it to bad.
6 feet at 11 seconds, Satellite Beach, Nov. 10 2011, shot by Oldwaverider (Art Hansen)
Here are two photos I shot from a NE swell like this one (it was a much more perfect swell with a massive fetch, but anyhow), this storm was a NE swell, was 6 feet at 11 seconds, the swell we have tomorrow is 6 feet at 10 seconds, so probably 30 to 40% less in size an power. (photo shot November 10, 2011, and had double overhead waves, the barrel was not double overhead, but the 2nd photo was more than double overhead)
Same day, 6 feet at 11 second period NE swell, shot Nov 10 2011 by Oldwaverider (Art)
So, Will we have a glassy epic day out of this big East/Northeast Windswell/Groundswell mix?
Thursday morning, The models for two days running, show that our winds are to turn North, slow way down to around 6 to 10 mph at daybreak, out of the North. They will increase throughout the day, but maybe only to 15 or so mph, turning NNE by lunch time or before. And the swell size, is showing 6 feet at 10 seconds, so that can produce solid head high to 2 foot overhead faces 🙂
It is possible we could see some size close to these pictures when we had NNW winds the morning of Earl, though these photos were taken later in the day, and the winds were NNW to NW, but subtract one to two foot in face height, and we could see something close to these:
My surf buddy Mike, from Lakeland was supposed to be taking photos of me surfing below, but got distracted during Hurricane Earl.
THE KEY THING TO NOTE HERE:Our 11/7/2013 Thursday morning, the swell period comes in Full steam at 10 seconds, and the Fetch of the swell (the distance in miles of Km’s, is 500 or 600 miles of nothing but one big chunk of 10 second period fetch covering the entire east coast Atlantic), so that means power and consistency and possibly, most likely very good form. Behind this swell, immediately, another NE swell of size starts rolling in, so we won’t have our surf let up before the next swell comes in.
These were taken by Mike Melito at the CCB Pier, Sept 2010 , Hurricane Earl. But for something to hope for this coming Thursday, 11/7, consider 2 foot smaller on face size 🙂
Friday looks like big chop again if the models hold, as the winds whip back around from Thursday.
Saturday more big chop.
Also from Hurricane Earl, by Mike Melito. But Thursday, our 6 ft 10 second period swell with 8 to 10 mph N and hopefully NNW for an hour, could produce 2 foot smaller than this, up North.
Sunday, looks like we could get chest to head high glass from the new swell, with an 8 second period swell, but that’s still a bit far out, to rely on the wind models.
Is there Epic Surf, Great Surf or Decent Surf coming next week?
Compliments of Magicseaweed.com and there excellent hurricane tracking diagrams, replacing Stormpulse.com, TS-Dorian-07-25-13-2PM-EST-MSW-1680by1050, The chart shows Monday afternoon position of Dorian with my mouse over the 2nd yellow icon east of our coast.
The models show, that Tuesday through Wednesday, we could have some size in the Chest to Head high range as it stands right now. Yes, we are 5 days out, but fortunately, Hurricanes, are a little more consistent to draw conclusions, especially, when they don’t appear to be on track to run over a body of land before they hit us. And Dorian, seems to have a much more Westerly path toward us, staying above Cuba and the other Islands.
As it approachs, we shall keep ya updated. As I have mentioned, previously, Johnson Avenue Surfers, is here to share Photos, Video of our local crowd of Surfers, and only provide actual Swell surf reports. (skipping the day to day, 1 to 3 foot windswell weather reports that we get so much of which are totally unpredictable by weather patterns 🙂
Below, I shared a photo of Hurricane Leslie, that my buddy Mike Melito took by RC’s.
Tropical Storm Leslie photo by Mike Melito, from September 2012 at RC’s
What’s up with Saturday Morning Surf for April 20th?
Saturday, We should have knee to thigh high at the Pier and waist high down South for this small incoming windswell. Winds should be offshore 5 to 12 mph everywhere Saturday morning going from SW at 6 AM to NW until maybe 10 AM. Then it turns North winds in the 12 to 20 mph plus range. THOSE ARE THE SWELL WINDS. We also have a local scattered thundershowers that start around 10 or 11 Am in the 50 to 60 % chance, so that may affect our winds by 9 AM, hard to tell. The Moral :), be in the water at 7:30 which is 3 hours after high tide going low, so that should work best anyhow for down South, and probably North. We have a few other windswells coming in, back to back, thru the week.
Small, but rideable, and with a few other rideable days this week, though Saturday is the glassy morning, if the thunderstorms don’t come earlier than 10.
Below are some more photos I shot in Satellite Beach of a Hurricane Sandy 5 shot sequence of a maybe double overhead wave on the take-off 🙂 Photos were shot after my session, about 2 PM, October 28, 2013
Have Fun and have a great weekend!
Satellite Beach, Hurricane Sandy, october 28 2012, 5 shot sequence, photos by OldwaveriderHurricane Sandy, october 28 2012, Image 2 of 5 shot sequence, photos by OldwaveriderHurricane Sandy, october 28 2012, Image 3 of 5 shot sequence, photos by OldwaveriderHurricane Sandy, october 28 2012, Image 4 of 5 shot sequence, photos by OldwaveriderHurricane Sandy, october 28 2012, Image 5 of 5 shot sequence, photos by Oldwaverider
HERE IS A VIDEO VISUAL REPORT FOR SATELLITE BEACH, taken today, at 1:30 PM Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. Nice head high to 2 foot overhead drops, semi-glassy 70 to 120 yard shortboard rides 🙂 video by , in a hurry, Walk On Water Productions.biz
WednesdaySize still looks to be waist to chest for the Cape, maybe head high for the pier, and epic Overhead glass in Satellite Beach with light 4 to 8 mph W-WNW winds until 1 or 2 ish.
Thursday, Size looks the same and maybe a foot bigger, with winds offshore until later perhaps. Winds maybe in the 12 to 15 mph range on Thursdday, Friday should have some leftovers with brisk offshore winds also.
WAVES FOR 5 DAYS , MAYBE! Ground Swell rolling in, already here down south…..More on the swell, down below 🙂 WOW, They got the 120 and the 20 mile buoy working in the last couple hours! (updated comment at 9:45 PM Monday night)
The photos below are from Hurricane Sandy, in Satellite Beach, from the big day Sunday , October 28, 2012. This was not one of the bigger sets, but it was one of the perfect formed sets for sure. A three shot sequence, that I took with, yes, a few settings out of place on the camera. I had to do some damage control, by dropping a “Levels” filter on it, my bad 🙂
Hurricane Sandy, Sunday, October 28, 2012, Satellite Beach, 3 shot sequence by Oldwaverider
A long period ground swell that comes from the East (not NE), has hit Fort Pierce, already in the 3.5 foot at 13 second range, and is just hitting our near shore buoy as of 6:15 PM today, (41113 buoy). The 20 and 120 mile buoy are out, so this one’s a little tricky , but since it has not hit Augustine except for jump in size from 3 to 6 feet but at 6 seconds, the ground swell has not hit them yet, but it has hit Fort Pierce, so yeah, it’s mostly an Easterly swell (as of 6 PM today) The winds are S-SE in Satellite Beach, and it looks pretty clean there, definitely bigger than waist high.
Hurricane Sandy, Image 2 of 3 shot sequence
Tuesday, the swell is here for sure, with strong South winds in the 15 to 20 mph range, waist high plus at the Cape, and chest high range in Satellite Beach. Early morning, could be clean, semi-glass in Satellite Beach when the winds are in the 10 to 15 mph South range. Choppy at the Cape. BUT!!!!!!! Tuesday afternoon, along with the 30 to 50% showers, we could have SW winds here at the Cape an hour or two before dark between say 4 and 7 PM, so we have a chance of waist to rib and glassy, just before dark!
Hurricane Sandy, Image 3 of 3 shot sequence
Wednesday, waist to rib at the Cape with bigger sets, and W to WNW winds in the 10 to 15 mph range. Satellite Beach should see chest to shoulder high waves, with a few head high rogue sets 🙂
Thursday, a new swell piggybacks the outgoing one, it starts rolling in Wednesday late, and we should see the same size as Wednesday for the Cape and Satellite. The swell drops off by late afternoon Thursday, but should hang around with something thru Saturday, in the thigh to rib high range, with brisk offshore winds over 15 mph, for Thursday thru maybe Saturday.
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