Screenshot of 10 foot surfboards on the wave face in Puerto Escondido Mexico in June 2011, compliments of Magicseaweed.com
The surfboards in this photo are 9.5 to 10 foot plus surfboards, so it gives you an idea of stacking 4 to 5 board lengths to reach the height of the wave. One guy, Lander, broke his leg in 4 places. If you haven’t seen this video, check it out here and make sure and watch it full screen with your sound on 😉 I posted this video back in July I think, but while I was working, and having no surf to distract me, I had to do my usual escape into big wave videos. As far as waves for Brevard…….
No real visible swells on the horizon, except if you live on the Gulf. We have some real low period 2 to 3 foot wind swell that may have something rideable Tuesday and Wednesday, There is a slight chance of waist high waves with 15 plus mph offshore winds for a few hours Wednesday morning, however, since the offshores start before daylight, the light windswell may be blown flat before you can surf them, but don’t expect any power, and not much after 9 AM.
I had to put this screenshot of possibly the biggest swell in years at Puerto Escondido Mexico back in June. Many of the big wave guns were there; Shawn Dollar (biggest paddle in winner Billabong XXL 2010 ?), Greg Long (beat Kelly Slater in the last minute of “The Eddie” in 2009), Jamie Sterling, Maya Gabeira (womans winner overall Billabong XXL), and many more.
Shawn Dollar who has paddled into 52 foot faces at Mavericks, said that this Escondido swell was the worst beating and most intimidating surf session he has had. That had to paddle thru all the beach break to get out, and the size was in the 40 to 50 foot plus range.
That’s about all for now.
I’ll be posting some more local pics in the next few days.
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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Dr. John on a really clean right, Image 1 of 3 shot sequence. Johnson, Hurricane Ophelia round two, Sunday, October 2 2011, photos by oldwaverider 🙂
DR JOHN PHOTO GALLERY
Really nice waves today, I had the next best thing to surfing them…taking photos. My back wasn’t working, oh well 🙂
Anyhow, our Surf Report yesterday said we had a stomach to shoulder high depending on the spot, and I would say we had waist to chest high at the Cape today, with some shoulder high drops. Probably a foot or two bigger down south, but anyone will tell you, these waves were really nice.
Dr. John , Image 2 of 3 shot sequence. Johnson, Hurricane Ophelia round two, Sunday, October 2 2011, photos by oldwaverider 🙂
There were quite a few people out, though a lot of faces I didn’t recognize, except Dr. John. I took shots at 10 AM and then came back after church at 12 PM, and man, the size kicked up 1 to 2 feet on the face size, the shoulders were holding up a little better, but both sessions were really nice for a glassy wave, beautiful sunny, cool day at the Cape on Johnson Ave.
Anyhow, enjoy the pics of John, and in the next few days, I’ll be posting some more pictures of some unknown faces, including the Gator Girl (who wore orange and blue, and she looked athletic, she got some really killer rides).
Beautiful waves, and a lot of closeouts. Image 3 of 3 shot sequence. Dr. John enjoyed the sweet spot of this wave before taking his exit.John slotted perfect. Image 1 of 3 shot sequence. Hurricane Ophelia provides a nice one day round two at the Cape on Johnson. Photo by oldwaveriderJohn working the wall, Image 2 of 3 , Hurricane Ophelia provides a nice one day round two at the Cape on Johnson. Photo by oldwaveriderDr. John, Image 3 of 3John obscured by the morning sun, Image 1 of 3 shot. Photo by oldwaveriderJohn, trimming the top of a mid-morning gem, Image 2 of 3 shot sequence. Photo by oldwaveriderThis gem seemed to hold up for the duration:) Image 3 of 3 shot sequence.
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Chad, on the shoulder high wave of the day, Image 1 of 6 shot sequence, Tropical Storm Maria Day One at Johnson, photo by Oldwaverider
CHAD PHOTO GALLERY, but first our Surf update…
QUICK SATURDAY 2 PM AFTERNOON UPDATE, Sunday is still showing NNW winds in the 10 mph range in the morning until noonish, so up North is the place to be. Okay, back to Friday afternoons report below…
Hurricane Ophelia a Category 3 Hurricaneis projected to start moving Northward tonight, which is why we have more groundswell waves coming in Saturday night/Sunday morning.
(A Cat 3 cane only 1100 miles out would normally throw much stronger waves our way, Ex. Hurricane Florence in 2006 a Cat 1 threw double to almost triple overhead waves between Playalinda and Satellite Beach, which was 950 miles offshore. Hurricane Bill in 2009 a Category 2, about 900 miles away through triple overhead waves to Daytona and double overhead here in certain spots, but I believe Ophelia having lost its lateral push after falling apart, may only be giving us some breadcrumbs 🙂
Chad, image 2 of 6 shot sequence, Tropical Storm Maria Day One at Johnson, photo by Oldwaverider
Saturday night the ground swell rolls in with some pretty substantial onshore winds…but, Sunday morning at daybreak, size should be stomach to shoulder high depending on your spot. The winds at the Cape look to be offshore around 10 mph NNW (based on the models of Ophelia moving North again), so that should be a no brainer as to where the best place to surf would be based on winds. Sunday should be fun, granted NNW at 10, don’t necessarily mean mirror glass, but it does mean glass for the Cape 🙂
Chad, image 3 of 6 shot sequence, Tropical Storm Maria
The winds could hold Sunday until Noon or 1 PM, so you can still thank God and surf in the same morning; however you choose to do that is your call 😉
Chad, image 4 of 6 shot sequence, Tropical Storm Maria
Okay, Monday, still looks like decreasing size with strong onshore slop, but we won’t know for sure until Saturday morning. (we can only call winds 48 hours or less before the surf time )
Tuesday looks like another swell Correction: A Nor’easter not Philippe starts rolling in bringing those huge waves you see on the charts, ENE (Tropical Storm Philippe starts rolling in from the ESE and by Wednesday mid-day it gets big with big onshore winds. It looks like Thursday the big gets bigger with a few feet overhead in size with 15 to 25 mph ENE winds, depending on surfing South or at the Cape maybe shoulder high.
Chad, image 5 of 6 shot sequence, Tropical Storm MariaChad, image 6 of 6 shot sequence, Tropical Storm Maria
The photo gallery of Chad here is from Day one of Tropical Storm Maria here at the Cape on September 13 2011.
They don't have any pictures of the beautiful 3 choice draft beer and wine trailer, but just so you know, the Fest is Kid friendly 🙂
Oh, Don’t forget, next Friday is our Cape Canaveral Friday Fest, so you get to support our local Artists, Vendors, public schools when you buy their draft beer at the beer-booth 🙂
The next Friday Fest is scheduled for October 7th from 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm.
Activities will include a variety of food vendors, an assortment of novelty & craft vendors, children’s activities including bounce houses, a giant slide & a rock climbing wall, live entertainment along with beer & wine.
Live entertainment will include “Mo Geetz” on Taylor Avenue & “Lonnie & Delinda” on Poinsetta Avenue.
The fun will take place on Taylor Avenue & Pointsetta Avenue.
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Image 1 of 3 shot sequence, Shoulder high backside right at Perkins, Day one of Tropical Depression Ophelia, Satellite Beach, taken by oldwaverider 🙂
TUESDAY, 7:30 PM UPDATE. I leave the report below for Wednesday.
IT WAS A FLUKE THING IN REGARDS TO SOME 120 BUOY READINGS, 5 – 30 MINUTE READINGS OF 6 TO 8 SECONDS, BUT THE BUOY WENT BACK UP TO 6 FT AT 12 SECONDS, SO HEAD HIGH DOWN SOUTH AND WAIST TO STOMACH, MAYBE……….CHEST HIGH AT THE CAPE 🙂
Below is the report from 4 PM earlier on Monday.
Ophelia did downgrade to a Tropical Depression, but that is no need to double your dose of Zoloft or Zanax. It just means that Tuesday the size may drop a hair, Wednesday and Thursday should have something but not as big either. (that was redundant wasn’t it?)
Image 2 of 3 shot sequence, Shoulder high backside right at Perkins, Day one of Tropical Depression Ophelia, Satellite Beach, taken by oldwaverider
Tonight, if I see anything drastic changing at the 120 buoy, I’ll post an update, as far as a drastic drop in swell size for Tuesday. I am not expecting it, but I did see 7 feet at 12 or 13 seconds at the 120 buoy, and then a few readings of 7 seconds, but hopefully that’s just fluke data 😉
Alright, so now Tuesday is looking like waist to chest high at the Cape and Shoulder to Head High down South in Satellite Beach, as opposed to Overhead down South. No big deal. The winds still look to be SW around 8 mph at daybreak slowing down to 6 or so and WSW until around Noon. High tide is around 8 AM Tuesday so it could be really perfect from 10 Am till Noon, because of the mid-tide going low that works best for us. (I used Satellite Beach winds on this but they should be close to Cocoa Beach and the Cape)
Image 3 of 3 shot sequence, Shoulder high backside right at Perkins, Day one of Tropical Depression Ophelia, Satellite Beach, taken by oldwaverider
Wednesday, it still looks to be chest high down South, and waist high here at the Cape. The winds won’t hang as long, daybreak they should be SW at 4 to 6 mph swinging around to WNW by 10 Am and NNW by 11 Am so down South the winds bite by 10 AM, whatever 🙂
Thursday we’ll just have to see the impact of Ophelia’s downgrade, but I am sure there will be something rideable, we’ll just leave it at that for now.
Shoulder high backside at Perkins, I think 😉 Tropical Depression Ophelia, Day One
We have our next Tropical Swell coming in Saturday or Sunday, but we’ll get into that Tuesday or Wednesday.
The photos here I took in Satellite Beach; Hangers, Hightowers and Perkins. I got them a little mixed in together, so I’m just gonna call them Satellite Beach photos. For the most part, Hangers and Perkins were looking the best and Hightowers was looking a little watered down. That always happens between Hangers and Hightowers, just kind of a 45 minute to 1 hour timing thing. (I say that because those are my two favorite breaks, and quite often, Hangers will look like it’s holding back and hightowers is going off, and then other times vice-versa)
Image 1 of 3, Hangers (i think or Hightowers), backside left. by oldwaveriderImage 2 of 3, Hangers (i think or Hightowers), backside left. by oldwaveriderImage 3 of 3, Hangers (i think or Hightowers), backside left. by oldwaveriderImage 1 of 3, Satellite Beach, waist high rightImage 2 of 3, Satellite BeachImage 3 of 3, Satellite Beach, waist high rightNice shoulder high left at Perkins, Tropical Depression Ophelia, photo by oldwaveriderImage 1 of 3 sequence, Johnson Avenue, Ophelia day 1, knee to thigh high rightImage 2 of 3 sequence, Johnson Avenue, Ophelia day 1, knee to thigh high rightImage 3 of 3 sequence, Johnson Avenue, Ophelia day 1, knee to thigh high rightContrast...Image 1 of 2 , Johnson AvenueImage 2 of 2, Johnson AvenueImage 1 of 2, waist high right, Johnson AvenueImage 2 of 2, waist high right, Johnson Avenue
The last few photos, I stopped back at the Cape on Johnson Avenue and snapped a few shots there. The Cape definitely takes a hit on the swell because of the Bahamas, but we all know the Cape gets blocked out by South and North swells, aside from an exception once or twice a year.
A fun little thigh high left, taken by Jenna, Sept. 9 2011, Tropical Storm Maria last day.
NOTE AND APOLOGY; WHEN I DON’T CHANGE OR UPDATE MY BLOG REPORT WHEN WE HAVE A MAJOR SWELL COMING (the last one was Friday), ITS BECAUSE NOTHING HAS CHANGED. I’LL TRY TO MENTION THAT WHEN I LEAVE A POST UP FOR A FEW DAYS LIKE THAT….oldwaverider
Ophelia says she will be on schedule…the big glassy day still looks like Tuesday, then Wednesday.
The wait...
Monday morning ain’t looking as pretty for up North. The Cape ought to see waist high plus waves in the morning, and chest to shoulder in Satellite. Winds are whats not pretty. Expect South winds around 8 to 10 mph at the Cape and Cocoa Beach same, but a 2 or 3 hour window of SSW, surprisingly, Satellite Beach is showing SSW winds from daybreak till 11.For the Cape, that’s sideshore/onshore, but maybe we’ll get a surprise of a SW gust or two. By evening it ought to be cranking overhead down South and kicking up maybe chest high plus at the Cape.
A re-entry, photo by Jenna, Sept 9 2011, Lori Wilson Park
Tuesday, ahhhhhh, I hope it holds. It has been showing head high to overhead for 4 days now for down South, so maybe chest to shoulder high plus at the Cape. The winds look to be SW at daybreak around 8 mph swinging West down to about 3 or 4 mph, and then onshore by Noon or 1.
Wednesday still looks West in the morning, and shoulder high down South, waist to stomach at the Cape. The winds ought to be pretty light, like less than 6 or 7 mph.
Thursday could also be totally ridable because the animated swell period chart which always follows the swell moving chart with a day of delay, tells me that we will still have a little waist high power.
The pics are taken by my friend Jenna with a water camera, on the last day of Maria at Lori Wilson Park. It was chest high plus down South, but I figured Lori would be a good place to learn. Jenna and her brother Travis tried surfing and both got up and rode in numerous times, pretty awesome. I’ve been wanting to get Jenna to try it for a while, and hoorah, she nailed it 🙂
Anyhow, enjoy Ophelia and take pics and videos and feel free to send em to me.
Johnson Avenue Surfers 