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A really fun head high day at Perkins, back in the 2nd week of November 2009. Photos taken by Erika Masterson . Image 1 of 7 in sequence.
Yeah I know, dredging up 2 year old photos so I can be in the Johnson Ave. Surfers Gallery is humorous enough, but then recycling these photos, oh well. It’s kinda sentimental for me, cause these photos were taken the second week of November of 2009 at Perkins which was my old favorite break. Photos by a photographer friend Erika. Though it was a little chillier for that November 😉 Oh, and anyone that hasn’t seen my favorite surf stunt on image 7, hasn’t ever watched me surf 🙂
All is well on this sweet sized left...Image 2 of 7 in sequence.
So what up with Surf Thursday? As if anyone within 100 miles of Brevard doesn’t know 🙂 The cool thing is, it’s shaping up to be a foot bigger then I thought at the Cape. Before 10 Am, I think we’ll see chest to head high waves, plus, on the bigger sets with NW winds in the 8 to 12 mph range until 10 or 12. After that the size will drop through the day, but actually pretty slowly. From dark Thursday till daybreak Friday morning, it will go almost flat, but we should have a pretty clean condition surf day all day.
Image 3 of 7 of oldwaverider at Perkins.
High tide is 7 AM, so a paddle out at 9 Am would be perfect for the most power, best form, best size and best winds.Satellite Beach should be 2 to 3 foot overhead with some bigger sets until 10 or 11, and then only drops maybe 2 feet in face size by late afternoon. They may have WNW winds at daybreak till around 9 Am and then NW winds for them, so Satellite Beach will be the best place to be for size, form , power and photos.
Really fun bottom turn, all is well...Image 4 of 7
But, since I can’t surf :(, for another 3 weeks, I will have a surrogate surf day, I’ll take some photos. So hopefully, the Johnson Ave. crew is out and about. I may sneak down for 20 minutes of bigger wave pics down South but then back home for the real photo session 🙂
Image 5 of 7Now it starts to get interesting...Image 6 of 7 in sequence.Kaplunk! I call it, my Bad Back Bend on the frame before. Whenever I favor my blown disc and I hit a ripple on the face, Kaplunk! haha, Image 7 of 7. Oh well, I had some other fun ones to last a little longer 🙂
Friday, at daybreak, maybe something for an hour or two but that’s about it.
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Like I mentioned Friday, the lefts were more hollow and faster, but the rights were great too. Image 1 of 5 in sequence. Photos by Oldwaverider, Friday Nov. 4rth Perkins n Hightowers.
Perkins, Hightowers and RC’s all had the perfect wind and a great exiting ground swell that delivered some hollow barrels and long makeable chest to head high lines on Friday. Unfortunately, up North at the Cape, the swell just didn’t cooperate 😉
I didn’t get to take many pictures Friday, cause I just shot them quickly before I surfed, so I used up the only head high wave shots in yesterday’s post. These shots are mostly chest high.
Image 2 of 5 shot sequence. Satellite Beach.
What’s up with surf? I’m sure you guessed a no brainer. Sunday, look for double overhead powerful ground swell chop in Satellite Beach and the Cape it’s impossible to call since the swell angle is so sharp, it’s hard to say how much we’ll get. This morning by 10 Am, I would have thought I’d see at least chest high waves coming in at the Cape, but it was just leftovers from the leaving ground swell on Friday.
Image 3 of 5 in sequence. Photos by oldwaverider, Satellite Beach
Monday thru Wednesday, it still looks like big overhead chop, but Wednesday morning may have a chance of North winds, which is slight offshore for the Cape.
Thursday is still shaping up for overhead and glassy in Satellite Beach and by then perhaps chest high and glassy at the Cape.By Tuesday, we’ll have a handle on the swell entrance and wind for Wednesday and Thursday at the Cape.
Image 4 of 5 in sequence.
Have a great Sunday and enjoy the Air Show!
Here’s the Air Show Sunday schedule or team of participants:
Image 5 of 5 (a little camera adjustment, my bad)
12:00 n till 2 PM ? approx. Cocoa Beach Air Show – Lori Wilson Park
• 101st Airborne Screaming Eagle – Flag Jump and Show
• GEICO Skytypers
• F-18 Hornet demo
• 920th Rescue Wing CSAR demo
• John Black in the Super Decathlon
• Rob Holland in the Veterans Home Loans MX-2
• F-16 Viper demo
• F-4 Phantom 3-pass demo
• USAF Heritage Flight
• Navy Seals Leap Frogs
• Heavy Metal Jet Team
Beautiful lines coming in the background. Perfect glassy right.This longboarder had a really good style...and a nice long ride. Image 1 of 4 in sequence.Same guy same wave. Image 2 of 4 sequence.Image 3 of 4 sequence.Just a nice mellow backside long ride. He just happened to take one that wasn't throwing out real hard and hollow. Image 4 of 4
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Nice shoulder high wave behind Perkins, Image 1 of 3 in the set. Photos by oldwaverider. This was a 4 foot 12 second period ground swell from the ENE.
Close to Epic surf today!Unfortunately, something was happening that hammered the form of the Waves here at the Cape,but Satellite Beach was crankin!
It was consistently chest to shoulder high waves, with an occasional 1 foot plus overhead set that rolled through, but not many. I saw a few 2 foot overhead drops on shorter people 🙂 j.k.
Image 2 of 3 in the set. Shoulder to Head High left behind Perkins.
Anyhow, the lefts were totally hollow, and many 100 yard rides were available. The rights weren’t as hollow, but 100 yard rides were just as plenty. Probably 50-60% were closeouts so ya just let em roll by, and they were pretty predictable, so other than the fact that you had to wait a while for long period swell set waves to roll up, it was pretty awesome. We’ll know by tommorrow if the totally hollow chest high shore break right that I couldn’t resist riding all the way in, whether or not it did crack a rib or just bruise it; but heh, its been 13 months since I cracked a rib on shore break, so I guess I was due 😦
Image 3 of 3 in set.
The pics I took at Hightowers I zoomed in too much, but the set I took at Perkins, was zoomed way out, so , it was just of those days 🙂
Saturday surf; this massive NE swell has such a sharp angle (like 52 ° whichcould completely block us out until Sunday, a 90° swell means it comes straight from the East, so 52 ° with the KSC property sticking way out could block all the size unless you do the Pier. And even then, you may have to drive 4 miles South) Anyhow head high down South and then bigger after noon, up North here, we’ll have the best
Well it looked like a sweet, Head High right..........not 😉 Image 1 of 3 in set. Hightowers break, Nov. 4rth Friday. Photo by oldwaverider
winds for surf, they should be NNW winds till 7 Am and then go North, but maybe…they maybe will keep a little NNW for another hour, like maybe till 9 Am. Mostly North winds from daybreak on, in the 15 mph range until 10 or so, and then it starts kicking up over 20 mph.
Barrel ? Image 2 of 3 in set. Hightowers.
Sunday, there will be some 12 foot plus faces in Satellite Beach with 20 to 25 mph NE winds. So, if you wait till exact high tide, and paddle out up North, you may find some head high to two foot overhead chop with some shoulders to play around on.
For now, the first window for offshore winds is showing Thursday November 10th, head high stuff, maybe better, but when it gets closer we’ll tighten up on the wind forecast.
The water was 1 degree warmer then up North anyhow 🙂 Image 3 of 3 in set.
I hope ya enjoy the pics from today at Hightowers, and maybe you got lucky and surfed 2nd light or better yet, RC’s.
Saturday or Sunday I’ll throw some more pics from today.
Enjoy the Friday Fest street party and the Air Show!
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Image 1 of 3 shot sequence. Unknown woman on a really nice shoulder high, backside wave. Hurricane Ophelia round two October 2 2011, Johnson Ave. Photos by oldwaverider 🙂
Okay, it’s a no brainer that we’ll have big, most likely overhead waves for the next 5 to 7 days…I surfed by the Jetty on Monday afternoon at high tide, for an hour, caught some 20 mph N to NW winds on some stomach high waves, and it was fun. Only got 2 or 3 rides, it was just nice to have a semi-functional set of lumbars working around 60% 🙂
The photos are some more that I took from October 2nd, when Hurricane Ophelia gave us round two. Someone please let me know who the woman is out there on these photos. That day there were 4 or 5 unknown people in the water except Dr. John. The photos are a 3-shot sequence of woman on a nice shoulder high backside ride.
Image 2 of 3 shot sequence. Someone let me know who this is, thanks. oldwaverider
Okay, back to incoming surf…
This is what’s exciting, this NE ‘str wind swell stuff turns into a ground swell late Thursday afternoon.
Friday is setting up to be overhead waves and glassy. Solid overhead. The winds, well I won’t know for sure until Wednesday morning.
Image 3 of 3 shot sequence. Hurricane Ophelia round two, Oct. 2nd, Johnson Ave.
Wednesday morning, we should see a foot or more overhead in Satellite, so we should expect some chest to shoulder high sets at the Cape. The angle of the swell isn’t too North, so I think we’ll keep our nice size waves here at the Cape. Winds aren’t supposed to be too bad. 12 mph NE winds in the morning and afternoon so that looks pretty stable. So if you could paddle out right at high tide, the paddle out is easy, and the shoulders are fairly clean. Low tide, a washing machine most likely.
Thursday, the waves are bigger, maybe 2 foot overhead down South, and solid head high at the Cape. The winds look to be very light, NNE to NE around 4 mph, so there could be a shot of offshore winds up North 🙂
Fortunately, there wasn't too many jellyfish to dodge here.
Friday, is looking like the EPIC DAY, potential. (gotta have that lawyer disclaimer in there, though my surf brethren around here go easy on me if I’m off a foot on the size 🙂 It may be 3 feet overhead in Satellite Beachwith West to NW winds around 5 to 10 mph until noon at least. (BUT, that’s a wind call out 3 days, and I won’t know about the winds for that 80% call until Wednesday night). The Cape ought to see some head high plus waves and with West to NW winds, it should be epic here.
Saturday still looks overhead, but with very light East winds, maybe around 5 to 8 mph in the morning and increasing throughout the day. But, we’ll have to see Thursday for that iffy wind call.
That’s all for now. Still more waves probably, but I’d be totally speculating past this point, hah.
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Image 1 of 3 in set. An unknown surfer charging a perfect glass backside Head High wave at Officers Club. Photos from September 8 2011, Hurricane Katia . Photos by oldwaverider
SUNDAY NIGHT, 8:30 PM UPDATE!
The winds turn offshore at midnight tonight instead of late morning, still NNW, but lighter, like in the 7 to 9 mph range. I don’t believe that would be enough to blow the windswell flat. I think, it may take until 8:30 or 9 AM for the swell to have it’s full period and thus power, which works out well to be mid-tide with high going low. Also, the winds may stay offshore till Noon or 1. By 10 Am, they are up to 11 mph and increase now up close to 20 mph North on until dark. Back to my forecast that I gave this afternoon today>>>
We have 3 back to back wind swells on the way………..
The photos here are more from the 2nd Big Day of Hurricane Katia after the swell had dropped 2 to 3 feet from the morning. (photos taken around noon to 1 PM) These were taken at the South end of Officer’s Club and the North end of 2nd Light. When Ken and I first paddled out, it was 3 to 5 feet overhead on the drop with an occasional double overhead set that came in 🙂 But by late morning it dropped to head high to 2 foot overhead on the set waves. That’s when I came in to take pics.
Image 2 of 3 set. The drug of Surfing, the speed of the bottom turn 🙂 Officers Club/2nd Light, Hurricane Katia swell dropping. Photo by oldwaverider.
Back to incoming surf;Monday morning we have a small ENE swell blowing in, and we should have some stomach to chest high waves in Satellite Beach probably around mid-tide 8:30 Am when high is going low, so the Cape I believe should see some thigh to waist high waves, and the winds are looking to be NNW around 10 mph, so my guess, we will see some NW winds for a while, mostly NNW until 10 Am ish, then turning North before 11. Guess it’s a no brainer where to surf based on the winds, not the size 🙂
Image 3 of 3 in set. Trying to get or stay under a barrel. Perfect , backside left. Hurricane Katia.
Then the winds ought to start blowing N and NE increasing to 15 mph and on throughout Tuesday, and bringing in the 2nd swell late Tuesday. Waves should be choppy, head high South and waist to chest at the Cape.Onshore winds all day Tuesday and Wednesday.Wednesdaysize should be the same as late Tuesday.
Thursday morning, the winds could swing around to the South and maybe SSW during the day, my guess is 8 to 12 mph winds, but I won’t know until Tuesday night for 80% accurate winds. Size, chest to shoulder high in Satellite Beach, waist to chest at the Cape.
Friday morning could be waist high and glassy down South, size at the Cape, probably knee high plus.
The 3rd swell, a distinct NE ‘ster, starts blowing in after dark Friday, and should provide some shoulder high big NE chop by late afternoon. By Monday or Tuesday a week out, we may have a fun big glassy day in there. BUT TO THINK THIS COULD BE ANY MORE THAN AN ESTIMATE WOULD BE HUMOROUS 🙂
Okay, get stoked about some chop and a little mixed glass, and some fun chop while high is going low tide.
Pefect glassy face, and as you can see, she was about 5' 8 (we saw her walk down the boardwalk), and she still has 6 or 7 feet more to go to the bottom of the wave. Sorry, I blew it on the focus, so only 3 pics will I show out of all 150 taken.
Tuesday morning surf.Chest high at the Cape, maybe some shoulder high sets, but only on the rogue sets. Satellite Beach, overhead up to maybe 1 to 2 feet.
Winds are showing SSW at 5 to 8 mph at the Cape and for Cocoa Beach Tuesday morning.Satellite Beach is showing SW winds.
The girl on the wave. Sorry for blowing the focus on all 3 pics 😦
Butthis morning meaning, Monday morning, my wind weather plugin check for the Cape, CCB and Satellite Beach showed South winds at 15 mph, butwhen I woke at 6 AM, the plugins changed to SSW, but when I went out at Hightowers/RC’s, the winds were WSW at less than 5 mph, so this storm has been very iffy, much more than any other Storms or Hurricanes, so we may have the same gift Tuesday morning 🙂
Maybe it will be solid SW winds at the Cape instead of SSW at 7 mph.
Way on the left side, you can see the 6 or maybe 7 feet overhead on the guy for the drop, The massive whitewater to the right, kind of makes it easy to picture the size before it broke. Last of the horrid blurry pics that I will show. The rest I will cyber burn.
HOW THE WAVES WERE TODAY…….Man, did I hit the wrong focus button today, I took 150 pics, but the view finder is so small, I assumed the focus was set from the day before, and the bright sun kept me from actually seeing it, …Notttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I’ll only show you 3 of the 150 pics from Hightowers today just so you can see the 6 foot overhead on the drop waves.
Hightowers was solid 9 to 12 foot faces, with an occasional rogue/freak set that broke 60 yards outside completely before it got to us. Crazy. One guy had a jet-ski to pull his friend out at RC’s side of Hightowers. It was still double overhead on the faces for the large sets still when I left at 12.
Johnson was like 2 foot overhead and the pier 3 foot overhead on the big set waves (as I was told 🙂
Johnson Ave, Hurricane Ophelia day, Sunday October 2 2011, photo by oldwaverider
9:30 PM Sunday night update from the 7:30 report. It has hit 22 to 23 feet at the 120 mile buoy at 11 seconds from like 6 to 8:30 PM, and for the last 7 hours (from 12 to 7 PM) it has hit 21 feet at the 20 mile buoy. So when the 120 rolls in about 4 Am to the 20 mile buoy, that buoy could hit 24 feet which might mean 15 foot plus wave faces sizes in Satellite. This is rising way above the models, but ya never know if it really means anything or not. We will let ya know in the morning. Back to the 7:30 PM report just below here:
Monday morning surf report 🙂 The winds are being really flaky, but……..
Size in Satellite Beach, should be 10 to 12 foot faces plus at daybreak until probably 11 or noon, and then start dropping off slowly. Winds, South from 7 AM until 1 or 2 PM in the 15 to 2o mph range. The Cape should be head high to 2 or 3 feet overhead on the bigger sets. Winds are also South after 7 AM at the Cape which is onshore winds, so North is not a good call.
The winds are supposed to slow down 30 plus mph ENE at 8 PM tonight to 17 or 18 mph SSE around 4 AM. They switch to South by 7 AM. If it does clean up enough, it will take 3 or 4 hours. Playalinda or Melbourne Beach to Sebastian are the places to be because the winds would be 22 to 32 degrees offshore at those surf breaks.
Hightower Beach, South winds are around 10 degrees offshore and at 15 mph plus at 10 or 11 AM, it won’t be glassy, but it could have some fairly clean huge shoulders. (huge for Florida 🙂
High tide is around 7 AM so 10 Am paddle out time, is a good time, for tide and wind to mellow out the chop.
If we receive a gift, maybe it will turn a little SSW for a couple hours, don’t count on it, just hope for it.
North or Patrick AFB (technically N of Minuteman Cswy) will be chop city since South winds are onshore up North.
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Nice shoulder high left, Image 1 of 3 sequence, Johnson Ave - Hurricane Ophelia- Sunday Oct 2 2011, photo by oldwaverider
Sunday afternoon, Cape Canaveral waves; Slightly windy and clean medium size lines…….hah, in some other part of the world 😉
Today its big, it’s choppy, the wind will blow the hat right off your head, but the dark sky and intense ocean were really cool…
Nice shoulder high left, Image 2 of 3 sequence, Johnson Ave - Hurricane Ophelia- Sunday Oct 2 2011, photo by oldwaverider
Back to surf update in a minute; The 3 photo sequence are from Johnson Ave at the Cape on Sunday October 2nd 2011 Hurricane Ophelia, round two. The size jacked up a foot or two on the face from about 10 Am to 11 :30 Am, and these pics I took at around 11:40. I don’t know who the guy is out there, but he looks like middle-aged, and he knows how to surf well.
Today around 11 AM or so, It looked like 8 foot plus faces outside at the Cape, but since no one’s out there, that’s just a guess. I do know that it is at least 4 foot bigger on the face in Satellite Beach. At 25 to 40 mph ene winds, who cares ? 🙂
>>>At 9:15 PM tonight (Saturday), the 120 mile buoy reading showed a climb to 16.5 feet at 10 seconds in the late afternoon, and 15.5 at 8 PM.At 6 PM the 20 mile buoy hit 19 feet at 11 seconds, and 17 feet at 11 seconds at 8 PM, so we ought to see some double overhead waves in Satellite Beach for sure on Sunday.<<<
Same wave, Image 3 of 3 sequence, Johnson Ave.
Monday, right now the surf site models are conflicting with the weather channel, but there’s always a 6 hour lag on huge swells. Monday is showing a possible offshore SSW to SW winds day of 10 feet at 10 second period for Satellite Beach, which translates to 10 to 12 foot faces. The winds look to be in the 12 to 15 mph SW range.
Playalinda, would be the place to be, because the weather channel model shows South winds at daybreak turning SSE, and S winds are totally offshore at Playalinda (32 degrees), which is the equivalent of NW winds at the Cape.
Tuesday looks to be 1 to 2 foot overhead in Satellite Beach with light SW winds.
KEEP THIS NOTE FOR COMPARING SURF SIZE OF SATELLITE BEACH TO THE CAPE ! :
The surf models from Surfline, SurfGuru, Surfer, Magicseaweed all reflect Satellite Beach. (no they don’t actually say that) And Never the Cape and really never Cocoa Beach. Why, because 97 % of the time, South Swell or North Swell or East Swell, Satellite Beach receives the best angle of the swell. So even for South Swells you’d think the Cape would reflect better, but my rule of thumb is take the face size of Satellite Beach and mulitply it by .60 and you get the face size at the Cape. Some may argue this. But I sit here 5 times a day looking at data a many sites, both swell data, wind data, moving storm models; then I get in the car, and look at Hightowers, Hangers, O’ Club/2nd light and sometimes one of the streets, the Pier, and then the Cape. Visual is the best data source that I know of. I also try to take pictures of Satellite Beach and then come North and get Cape pictures witin the hour (when I can do this work permitting), so we can all learn the differences. Sorry for the long wind, but since this is a blog, and a school of learning for me perpetually, I want to post this information also for the world to see 🙂
Have a great Sunday, if you want to hear some kind words about Grace, Peace and Forgiveness, then check here: My Church 🙂
Hopefully, we’ll have our massive offshore winds day on Monday!
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This guy got a killer left from O' club on into 2nd light territory. Image 1 of 6 shot sequence. Thursday, September 8 2011, photos by oldwaverider
The 5 to 7 day ENE swell coupled with Hurricane Philippe is rolling in slowly and may increase a little in size for Friday, but Saturday morning is when the size gets huge and the power starts rolling in. (huge for Florida standards :)……….
But, before I wail into the incoming swell…about the photos;
Image 2 of 6 sequence. The same guy on a killer long left at O' Club. Hurricane Katia, Thursday, September 8 2011, photos by oldwaverider
The photos here I took at O ‘ Club on September 8, the 2nd big day of Hurricane Katia. As you heard me mention in a couple of other posts. My buddy Ken and I first paddled out around 8 AM, and it was a solid 3 to 4 foot overhead with some bigger rogue sets. But by 12 or so, the Hurricane was dropping and the size had dropped to head high with occasional overhead waves, but were still nice and glassy and powerful. We were surfing at the 2nd light border of Officers Club break, and the photos in today’s post, were of a guy actually in the North end of 2nd light. The zoom was on full, and the surf was still 250 yards out.
Image 3 of 6 shot sequence. Longboarder on a sweet long left. Hurricane Katia, Thursday, September 8 2011, photos by oldwaverider
MY APOLOGIES FOR USING THE LEVELS FILTER SO INTENSE ON THE FIRST PHOTO. It was so faded looking I had to jack up the contrast quick. Plus, the washout effect on the other photos is a little heavy also. L.M.A.O at my own Anal-OCD ishness. It’s late and I’m fried;)
Friday, probably shoulder high at the Cape and Overhead in Satellite.Winds looking to be ENE to NE, 15 to 20 plus increasing past 15 by mid-morning.
Saturdaycould hit double overhead chop down South, so I imagine we’ll have some extra visitors that want to make it in 2 foot overhead wind chop up here 🙂 Plus the winds ought to be 20 to 25 mph ENE at daybreak and increasing thru the day. But, at dead High tide, there might be some fun short-board peaks, and some long, continual reforming longboard waves.
Same guy, I had to make a little camera adjustment. A rookie 🙂 Image 4 of 6 sequence.
Sunday I’ll go with similar to Saturday.
Monday morning at daybreak, but this is iffy and the models for big storm winds can change every 6 hours, but I’ll say it anyhow; could be double overhead , glassy, with 15 mph plus offshore winds, with the size dropping to 3 foot overhead by 9 or 10 AM, winds staying the same. Size looks to drop to a 1 to 2 feet overhead by dark. Also, Saturday thru Monday we’re looking at a swell period in the 10 to 11 second range, dropping to 9 on Tuesday, so the power of the swell could be rockin !
Image 5 of 6 sequence. O' Club, Hurricane KatiaWhat a fun ride this guy had. Image 6 of 6 sequence. I ran out of camera time or I would have taken this ride to shore with him. O' Club, Hurricane Katia. photo by oldwaverider
Keep your stoke up, know that models change, but what I get high about from models, is hoping that they play out.
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Image 1 of 6 shot sequence. The Florida Gator Girl rips a shoulder high backside left. I don't know her, but she tore it up out there. Hurricane Ophelia delivered some beautiful waves for the Cape and Johnson Avenue, Sunday October 2 2011. photos by oldwaverider 🙂
WEDNESDAY NIGHT UPDATE! No update 😉 Not really, I’ll go with whatever I wrote below. Good news on the offshore winds day. It should be 12 days from today ;( no, Just kidding!
But, Saturday and Sunday both like they have a potential to be double overhead days depending if your willing to do a session in Satellite Beach, and paddle out into 20 to 30 mph ENE winds 🙂
I have no doubt that with a few of the days that its a little smaller, like 2 feet overhead, and a paddle out right at dead high tide, there could actually be a fun session with especially long rides (more of a longboard type session mentality that is saying this 🙂
Anyhow, no changes in the report.
DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE CAPE CANAVERAL FRIDAY FEST THIS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7TH. 6 to 10 PM.Live entertainment will include “Mo Geetz” on Taylor Avenue & “Lonnie & Delinda” on Poinsetta Avenue.
Thursday morning, looks like chest high at the Cape with some shoulder to head high drops, getting a little more mellow in power toward late afternoon, winds are showing at the Cape to be less than 20 mph ENE before Noon. Realistically, I make the call that a 2 PM paddle out would be the most user friendly paddle out getting close to High Tide with winds still less than 20 mph. (provided the Thunder Showers don’t kick in around then)
Monday nights report from 2 days ago starts below….
From Monday…Huge ENE swell starts rolling in Tuesday night which should show some substantial stomach to chest size waves on the beach by Wednesday morning at the Cape. More on the incoming swell in a moment…
The photos here are from Johnson Avenue Sunday October 2nd (for archiving purposes the date was yesterday) taken at 2 times, around 10 Am and then after church around 12 PM, from round two of Hurricane Ophelia. We had some waist to stomach high waves early to mid-morning, and by 11 or 12 the size jacked up with some chest high waves with a few bigger rogue sets, here at the Cape and Johnson Ave.
Image 2 of 6 shot sequence. Little bowl section behind the Florida Gator Girl. Hurricane Ophelia brought beautiful waves for the Cape and Johnson Avenue, Sunday October 2 2011. photos by oldwaverider 🙂
Most of the folks in the water were unknown to me except Dr. John who was out during my 10 AM photo session, whom some of you saw his photo gallery posted Sunday afternoon. Most of the shots I got were from the 12 PM session, 3 people including some girl dressed in Florida Gator colors, an older guy (at least he looked older , like me :), and one other person. Some shortboarders were riding the shorebreak but the waves barely broke 50 feet before total dump closeout.
My apologies to any of the shortboarders, the waves just weren’t breaking for any even halfway decent quality pictures to show up. (quality as far as wave, not the surfer ability or photographer 😉 At least the winds were NNW to NW, and stayed glassy until Noonish.
Image 3 of 6 shot sequence.
Okay, Wednesday, waves should be waist to chest high at the Cape and head high down south, and building thru Thursday morning with NE onshore winds 10 to 15 mph; then it gets weird. The period of the swell weakens, and changes from ground swell 12 seconds to a 6 second period. The size builds Friday and Saturday to possible double overhead down south, and a little smaller at the Cape. The power of the swell starts climbing late Friday night and on Saturday and Sunday to 9 seconds.
Most of that was meaningless I know, because the winds will be mostly NE in the 15 to 25 mph range from Thursday into the weekend, and mostly less than 15 mph on Wednesday.
Image 4 of 6 shot sequence.
Once we have an idea of when the winds may turn offshore we’ll fill ya in on that. For now, enjoy the huge chop, and try to catch it, around high tide , a couple hours before during and a couple hours after. At least the paddle out will be most gentle when it’s close to high tide.
Image 5 of 6, The Gator Girl continues on her long glassy wall...Image 6 of 6, The Gator Girl ...A little reading and Solitude?Image 1 of 3 shots. A nice wall and the KSC in the background, it doesn't get much better for a place to be 🙂 oldwaveriderJohnson Ave has its great days , 2nd shot of 33rd shot of 3
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