Possible Incoming groundswell for the Weekend, not real big, but it appears to be a Low Pressure system…more down below
CHUCK – PHOTO GALLERY
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Chuck, new on a board, doing really nice on this left, Image 1 of 5, May 15, 2012
On this perfect 1.5 foot at 11 or 10 second period swell, we had some really fun waves, perfect glassy lines, long rides, and I was lucky to catch Don and “New Guy” Chuck, after I had already surfed a fun session. Since Chuck is picking up this Surfing addiction and set of skills so effectively, I wanted to share some photos from the day. A nice thigh high wave that Chuck caught here.
As far as incoming surf, it appears that this East/Southeast Low Pressure may push and deliver an almost ground swell for us, I say that according to the size of the Fetch of the swell, it may actually deliver some thigh to rib high waves depending whether you do the Cape (North) or Satellite Beach (South), maybe bigger, maybe smaller. We will know probably in 2 days, if the system is going to hold up and actually deliver it’s “Gift”.
Chuck, cruising on the same nice left, Image 2 of 5. Photos by Oldwaverider
It may actually come in on Wednesday night or afternoon late and then increase in size thru Sunday , maybe Monday. My guess, knee to thigh at the Cape Wednesday and Thursday and waist to rib down South.
Appears to be one of those potential lingering Low Pressures, and if so, we could have some multiple offshore winds mornings. Swells of this size, I don’t like to stick my neck out to much since they have less data to look at, but get ready for some fun long board waves and at the right breaks, maybe some short board waves also.
May 16, 2012, nice 1.5 foot groundswell at Johnson Ave. New guy Chuck on a nice left, Image 3 of 5 shot sequence.Chuck, Image 4 of 5 in sequence. Photos by OldwaveriderChuck dissappeared 🙂 Image 5 of 5 sequence
I hope you enjoy the pics of our new neighbor Chuck Schwarzenegger. (sorry Chuck, I couldn’t resist 🙂
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OLDWAVERIDER – PHOTO GALLERY
These photos were taken by my buddy Mike Melito from Lakeland, on a fun waist to chest high day back in late May 2012. They were shot at 4rth street North behind his Condo.
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We may have some knee high longboard surf in the morning with some strong offshore winds, (20 to 30 mph SSW), but the chances are , okay let’s go with 50/50 on that one 🙂
The rest of the week, we have the remnants of Debby that may jump over the state by Thursday and create a slight groundswell for us, very close by out at sea, so no chance of much power, but heh, we have been blessed now with almost 3 years of consistent surf.
May 2012 groundswell, 4rth street North, photos taken by Mike MelitoFun left, Oldwaverider, Image 1 of 3Oldwaverider on a fun left, 4rth street North, Image 2 of 3, photos by Mike Melito
Oldwaverider, Image 3 of 3, fun left on 4rth street North , May 2012 groundswell
Perfect small glassy lines today at Johnson Avenue!
DON – PHOTO GALLERY
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A perfect knee to thigh high crusier, backside line, Don taking this one all the way in. Image 1 of 7 shot sequence. May 16, 2012 Johnson Ave. Photo by Oldwaverider
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This 7 shot sequence of Don, was this morning around 11 AM today at dead low tide. Perfect glassy lines, almost looked like a ground swell, but it was a crazy 1.5 foot at 8 second swell, with offshore light winds until just before 12.
Don, perfect left. Image 2 of 7 in sequence, Wednesday morning. Photo by Oldwaverider
Update at 10:20 Pm Wednesday night, it just hit 4 feet at 12 seconds at the 120 buoy, so we may be in luck if it keeps pushing in.
Upcoming surf for Thursday morning, a new piggyback swell, seemed to be forming a ground swell, for like 1 foot at 12 seconds as the charts show. It hit 4 feet at 8 seconds at the 120, and was a 2.5 foot swell at 12 or 13 seconds at the 20 mile buoy, also at 8 PM.
Don, cruising backside forever on this perfect left line. Image 3 of 7.
I have seen a 1.5 foot swell at 11 seconds deliver chest high waves at Perkins this time of year. But…………..
I give a 60 % call for some knee to thigh high sets up North here, and waist high down South in Satellite Beach. The swell angle is 72° which isn’t to steep from the North and mostly East, so we could have some fun waves.
Don, just like the battery………………….Image 4 of 7, photos by Oldwaverider
Mid-tide of high going low is around 8:50 AM, and with west winds light, I don’t think it will blow it flat at all, as long as the swell does actually come all the way in 🙂
Don, image 5 of 7, Johnson Avenue, a day that should have been no waves 🙂Don, still showing off to the Lady in Black 🙂 well, maybe he’s not, but I would have been 🙂 Image 6 of 7.He closes the deal, and takes it in on the perfect left of the day; a fine day at Johnson Avenue. Image 7 of 7 shot sequence.Don, calling it a day. And a fun day it was. May 16 2012.
Hope ya enjoy the pics from today, and the waves on Thursday if they deliver!
I will be getting more consistent again on posts and photos. I confess that a few new and cool factors in my life have taken me away a bit, but we are slowly getting focus back 🙂
Rib high rail grabber, fun left late drop. Friday April 20, 2012 glass was really fun. Photo by Mike Melito
SUNDAY NIGHT LAZY UPDATE FOR THIS POST . The peak of the swell was delayed for Tuesday, Meaning the Size of the Swell and the Swell Period don’t arrive until Tuesday. But we should still have rib to shoulder high waves from the Cape to Satellite Beach for Monday, but the form may still be a little weak, until the 7 second power of the swell hits. Then it may have a little more shoulder form to it. Below is Friday nights info that I posted.
Nice size SE windswell coming (as if no one knew). More on that in a sec…
Last Friday, we caught some really fun, waist to chest high waves at 4rth street North. Brother Chad, my buddy Mike from Lakeland, another buddy Ken and Myself.
Fun glassy left, Oldwaverider, April 20 2012. Photo by Mike Melito
Mike took these shots of me while he was nursing a shoulder injury. A couple of lefts, which most of the lefts for the day, were late drops due to the swell, so rail-grabbers were a requirement, if ya wanted to keep the ride.
Very very late left, but a hand on the rail, going backside, will make for a fun ride 🙂
It should show something for us Sunday morning, the winds actually look light right now, less than 7 light onshore winds. But wind swells are a little harder , no way harder to predict.
When a leash wraps around your but on a big day. My buddy Mike took this shot last summer, from my leash wrapping around my but and leg. (no skin, this is just leg). I limped for a week.
Anyhow, it appears that we will have some rib to head high plus waves going from the Cape to Satellite Beach, Sunday afternoon thru Wednesday, maybe Thursday.
How the Waves were Tuesday n Wednesday…………plus our Continued swell report below;
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Dr. John, taking advantage of a nice line, and no intruders 🙂 on a classic Johnson Avenue day. Image 1 of 6 in sequence.
Tuesday, I did a late 3:30 PM session in Satellite Beach, and even with 12 to maybe 15 mph onshore winds, there were some very fun lines/peaks coming in. The waves were 3 to 4 foot backs, so an occasional head high face did roll thru. It was past mid-tide high going low, and only 3 of us out, sunny and a great session.
Pulling it around for that nice trim down the face, Image 2 of 6 sequence. Photos by Oldwaverider
Today, had some nice waist high plus lines at the pier, but I only enjoyed it thru the cams 😉
Thursday we still have some punch left with our 9 to 10 second period 4.5 foot swell all of the day.
Image 3 of 6, Dr. John. Johnson Ave on March 10 2012
We should have more waist high to rib waves at the Cape or the Pier, and a little bigger South.Winds, back down even more, to the 6 to 8 mph range, East, and start climbing up toward 9 to 12 mph, after 9 or 10 AM. (can we try to put a few more numbers into one paragraph? 😉
Image 4 of 6 sequence. I took the photos from around 8:30 until 10 or so.
Friday, (or actually late Thursday night, the swell we have starts pulling away slowly), and Friday thru Sunday, a very mild Easterly swell will push toward us, to keep us with something rideable for the next 4 or 5
Image 5 of 6.
days, but do to the weaker swell, the right time of tides will be a lot more important than the strong swell we have thru Thursday (tommorrow). It still should be thigh high here at the Cape and waist high down South in Satellite Beach.Winds Friday, 6 to 8 mph ENE climbing toward 10 to 12 mph East by late afternoon.
I still don’t see any offshore days in the picture, so just like this week, I didn’t jump on the Surf Report binge too hard knowing that everyone new we’d have waves, but no “epic” day in sight if you will.
The were definitely some 60 to an occassional 100 yard rides available. Image 6 of 6, Dr. John enjoying a great session.
The photos here are on a nice wave and ride of Dr. John, from our awesome chest high day Saturday, March 10th, when the whole neighborhood was out surfing, at some time or another.
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An early drop-in by Lacey on one of the waves of the day 🙂 Image 1 of 10 shot sequence.
Lacey Gallery 1st ten photos. Today was a beautiful day at J-Ave! The waves were Chest high, some smaller, some bigger, with unexpected offshore winds past 8 AM, and unexpected sunshine. The next swell moving in was supposed to throw 20 mph NE winds by 8 or 9 AM, but our Awesome Creator (God 🙂 gave us an extended window of the whole neighborhood out in the water at some time or another. And our typical Boardwalk Commentators put in a little overtime, just to make sure everything went well, and so that all of those participants that shredded at least one wave, were commended at least once 🙂
Image 2 of 10 sequence. Lacey, dropping in to a nice big right, Sun was bright!
The first sequence is of Lacey (if misspelled i change it in the title later:) ), which which was done in 2 part, because as she dropped into one of the waves of the day, I was shooting right into the Sun, the camera had to time-out for 2 seconds after 6 shots, and then I
Beautiful bottom turn.........Image 3 of 10 shots. Johnson Ave., March 10 around 9:30 AM.
managed to pull 3 or 4 more shots on the same ride, but out of direct sun, and as she was getting closer to shore. It ended up being like 10 shots from the same wave, and if you look at the longboard on the sand, and how it re-positioned with the guy next to it, the span of her ride had to be close to 100 yards give or take. Just an awesome ride by Lacey, her style of takeoff, form and grace on that one!
Image 4 of 10 sequence. Possibly a hundred yard perfect wall. Photos by Oldwaverider
The next sequence is of Chad, on another of the bombs of the day, and trying to maintain a stance of modesty from his growing talent, he kept his re-entries in this chest to head high wave slightly conservative, so as not to frustrate others who are still learning to Surf 🙂
Lacey cruising along on one of those rare days of the year. The whole neighborhood was out. Image 5 of 10 sequence.
Sunday Surf; expect big overhead chop with 15 to 25 mph winds from the East. Probably head high plus at the Cape and 2 to 3 foot overhead down South in Satellite Beach.
I hope y’all enjoy the photos, and I apologize that I had to have the zoom out so much, but I literally could not see anything thru the viewfinder because the sun was so bright, so the best way to even get 4 or 5 pics in a sequence, is to have the zoom way out so you don’t have to move the camera too much.
Image 6 of 10 in sequence. The Sea Oats and the Sun competing for the Lens 🙂This is the same long ride by Lacey. Finally out of the direct sun, as she approaches shore. Image 7 of 10 in the ride.Bringing one of the "Waves of the Day" to a close, well almost to a close. Image 8 of 10 sequence.Image 9 of 10 on a perfect Johnson Avenue day, and ride by Lacey. Photos by OldwaveriderHer board hit a big shark.........just kidding. Image 10 of 10 sequence of LaceyChad catching a late drop in on one of the "Bombs" of the day. Image 1 of 7 sequence. Photo by OldwaveriderChad, Seeing that hollow section up ahead 🙂 Image 2 of 7 sequence. Johnson Avenue, March 10 2012K-ruisin, Image 3 of 7 sequence. Chad.Little head dip? Image 4 of 7 sequence. Johnson AvenueRail grabbin time to hold that steep high part of the wave. Image 5 of 7 sequence.and he keeps goin and goin 🙂 Image 6 of 7 shots. Photos by Oldwaveriderwhen you get a nice wave like that, who cares if it finally closes out.....Image 7 of 7
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Surf Forecast: Surf all Week? Yesx No __ More on that in a minute down below…:)
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The day provided quite a few teaser barrels, beautiful shape, but short-lived, Sunny takin full advantage. Image 1 of 3 sequence.
The gallery of shots here are from Wednesday, February 22nd from that really nice ENE 5 foot 11 second ground swell. We had thigh to chest high waves here at the Cape, of course only those willing to wait on the outside to catch the set waves reaped the rewards on that. Sunny, was having a great time working the inside coverage drinking in his 100 waves per session pathology 🙂
The fast exit 🙂 Image 2 of 3 in sequence. Photos by Oldwaverider. Feb. 22 2012
As far as the swell this week, is this a total wind swell, ground swell or combo? Well, it kinda merges into an almost ground swell by Wednesday, so I guess combo would be the almost correct word.
Sunny, disappears...image 3 of 3 in sequence.
Tuesday, we have waist to rib high for the Cape and chest high down South. Winds ought to be light 5 to 8 mph NNE until 9 Am, and then kick up a few more notches thru the day but not too much. So I think it will be pretty fun at Johnson here with an occasional teaser of almost offshore winds but not quite.
This shoulder was a little more user friendly, giving Sunny the chance to throw spray a couple times 🙂 Image 1 of 5 in sequence.
Wednesday, the swell kicks up in strength with the period of the swell coming in at 9 seconds, so the lines ought to be better, and the winds may be less than 5 mph onshore, so it ought to be real clean and fun everywhere.
Sunny, image 2 of 5 sequence.
Thursdaylooks to be the Primo day, waist to rib high at the Cape and Chest to Shoulder high in Satellite Beach. Winds have been showing offshore for 2 or 3 days straight now based on the models, mostly SW in the morning, but by Tuesday and Wednesday night we’ll have our solid guess on the winds for Thursday.
He throws a little spray to add color between the Sea Oats...image 3 of 5 in sequence. Johnson Ave.
Friday, could also be like Thursday with comparable size and power and offshore winds.
Saturday, maybe we’ll have some leftovers too.
Sunny like the battery, still goin...image 4 of 5 in sequence.He dun milked it for all its worth, image 5 of 5
Looks like a fun week, nothing massive, but definitely some waist to chest high waves and a few glassy mornings during the week.
Mike, with impeccable patience, awaiting that wave on this clean surf day at Johnson Avenue.
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You all may remember a guy that used to surf with us before he got a dog and broke some bones 🙂 Well, his name is Mike and he’s back !
Dammit! I hope I'll be able to see Mike catch a wave, from down here. His dog was tellin me he's surfin again now that his dog is house trained 🙂
These shots are from the great ENE swell that hit us on Wednesday for the chest to overhead glassy day, February 22nd. It was closing out pretty quick out back here on Johnson, but there were still some nice rib to chest high waves with even a bigger set rolling thru.
Mike, on a nice and clean thigh high wave. Image 1 of 7 in sequence. Photos by Oldwaverider
These shots are a sequence of Mike, who by the quality advice of the boardwalk advisement group, were taken of Mike while surfing Dr. John’s squatters rights South Surf break at Johnson. But since the Dr. was not in, Mike took the long ride for the day, perhaps. At least for while I was standing there feigning the work of photo taking.
He's diggin his board as he carves back down, image 2 of 7 in sequence. Johnson Avenue.
Surf Report; we have a weak, no fetch to speak of wind swell coming in probably Sunday afternoon late almost direct North with a hint of East. Down South may see something late Saturday, chop slop North wind stuff, but the Cape is totally blocked out of this one until maybe
Yeah baby, I got another turn on here before you close the door. Image 3 of 7 sequence. Rip Van Mike
Sunday afternoon late. And then some onshore chop thru maybe the week, with a chance of Thursday or Friday of the offshore winds for a few hours. The part for Tuesday thru Thursday comes in Tuesday, piggy-backing the former N swell, and as far as the Tuesday part 2, it comes mostly from the East, so everyone should get a piece of that.
It ain’t gonna be pretty, but it will be some head high waves probably somewhere along our Cape to Satellite corridor 🙂
Determined to line up between the 2 buoys. Image 4 of 7 sequence.
Once we start to see part 2 coming in Tuesday, we’ll start tracking the offshore winds day.
Hope you enjoy the pics of Rip Van Mike. His style was great for being asleep that long 🙂
Fluid as ever. It's probably the new beard 🙂 Image 5 of 7 sequence.Looks like he's thinking about using this wave as his bus ride in...image 6 of 7 in sequence.Satisfied with the adrenaline dose for the day, Mike heads it on in ...image 7 of 7 sequence. Photos by OldwaveriderHe may not admit it, but this must be a satisfaction and a thank your creator for this great stuff, meditative moment.
Photo Gallery from Johnson Avenue and from Hangers in Satellite Beach.
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Nice rib to maybe chest high right at Johnson Ave. Surfer? Who? 1 of 2 shot sequence. From February 22 ene swell.
I’ll post more in the next week from a couple killer rides by Sunny, and Rip Van Mike who finally woke up after a few broken bones. He still ain’t over the hill, but I’ll save that for another day. It needs to be handled with care 🙂
Nice wave, the third shot it closed out, but the short burst looked really fun. Image 2 of 2 shot sequence. Photos by Oldwaverider
It was an awesome session late today! Started out rib to occasional chest high at the Cape, beautiful sets, nice drops with a few turns and a quick exit. I just watched and shot some images.
Ron I believe. Perfect form and smooth style for the "out of towner", just kidding. Image 1 of 5 in sequence.
Then Chad and I headed down South for an 11 AM sesh, and for the first half hour it was like 1 in 15 waves were makeable at best, but nice head high faces on the drop with a quick closeout, and then it changed. It started to hold up a little better, maybe 1 in 8 would hold up, and then we got some of those 70 to 100 yard shoulders pumping most and some times all the way to the beach. Almost all lefts. A few select rights. Brother Chad nailed at least 2 or 3 of em in the 100 yard plus range, with one solid, did I say solid?; 150 yard right from far outside, all the way to 1 foot deep water, and used that as his bus ride in 🙂 He smoked it. I got the perfect left (except for a small epileptic surge on a few re-entries) to take me most of the way in 🙂 A bunch of rail-grabbing left take-offs for chasing speed up high on the wave.
Image 2 of 5 shots in sequence. I believe its Ron.
Most of the outside sets were shoulder high, and maybe a head high set rolled thru every now and then. See new chart, compliments of thewavecaster.com here.
Image 3 of 5 shots.
Surf Thursday is looking to be maybe thigh at the Cape and waist in Satellite. Strong strong offshore winds. They may even blow it flat tonight, but I suspect there may be a trickle for 2 hours in the morning and then done…………………
Image 4 of 5, Ron intent on getting ahead of the closeout 🙂 Photos by OldwaveriderWell it don't look like he's gonna climb past the peak, but he definitely got the best place for speed ! Image 5 of 5 shot sequence, Ron, Feb. 22 Wednesday morning.Starts Satellite Beach photos from today also.This old-timer is a regular here. He know right where to hang, to milk it for all it's worth. Image 1 of 7 shot sequence. Satellite BeachThe lip giving him a love tap on the top of his hat. Image 2 of 7 shot sequence. Wed. Feb. 22 around 1:00 PM Photos by OldwaveriderHe's dropping low to climb out ahead of the lip that is just dying to smack him away 🙂 Image 3 of 7 shot sequence. A regular at this spot.Pulling back up high again to get, just right back under the lip. Image 4 of 7 in sequence.Slotted perfect right under the lip. Adrenaline junkie or what? Image 5 of 7 in sequence.Pulls out of a slight barrell and another attempt to drop low and pull out in front. Image 6 of 7 sequence.I think he climbed ahead of this next part, but I ran out of film, ouch 😉 Image 7 of 7 shot sequence. Wed Feb 22 Satellite Beach.Nice shoulder to head high right. You had to work these waves high up top to beat the face. This one closed out on the 4rth photo. Image 1 of 3 in sequence.Beautiful wave, just a little too fast. Image 2 of 3 in sequence.He tried his best. This was one of 3 guys I met on the boardwalk. They are doing the Engineer program from UCF. Trying to forget Differential Equations 🙂 They were surfing North of Chad and I during their first session. Image 3 of 3I had to show you these pictures from Indialantic from thewavecaster.com for Feb. 22 today
A nice chest high I hope to see on the larger sets Wednesday morning at Johnson Ave.
The 120 buoy has hit 11 feet twice at 13 to 14 seconds since 5 PM, and the 20 mile is too soon to expect the swell from the 120 buoy yet. Since the last 11 foot reading at the 120 was 7:20 PM tonight which would take 6 hours maybe 7 to hit the 20 mile buoy, so I just have to accept that the swell angle was a little to steep today and that big Cape sticking out there doesn’t want to let things come thru. I thought it might be chest high by dark, but it never really climbed above waist high from the 2 times I checked it today, and one 2 hour session out. But it was fun, even though it closed out pretty quick.
In Satellite, I expect to see at least one of this size to roll thru for Wednesday morning for us.
Wednesday, maybe the extra 16 ° removed from the angle will let the brunt of the swell in. It went from 56 degree to 72, so maybe that’s east enough to let it in Wednesday.
Here is thewavecaster.com wave height scale chart.
Wednesday, I still believe that it will hit some chest high sets for the Cape and head high in Satellite with some overhead sets. I put some pictures in here that I feel will show the expected swell size and form.
The water was warm today 68, and Wednesday air temps looking to be 79 by mid-day, but about 66 degree for a 9 am recommended paddle out time. High going low, with high tide at 7:52 AM, so 9 am water time, with SW winds at 7 mph for Cocoa Beach going SSW at noon at around 9 mph. The Cape winds look to hold about the same winds with only about a 3 or 4 hour window of SW winds, and then SSW by noon onward.
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