Wednesday is still painted for the now, “epic” day potential. 4 days running, the models have been showing 5 ft 11 second period swell (groundswell) with a chance of offshore winds. Chest to Overhead, North going South to Satellite Beach, with larger sets.
That offshore wind forecast for Cocoa Beach as of multiple checks by me today for Wednesday morning is showing, WSW winds at daybreak 5 mph SSW by 1 PM (yeah, the time is iffy along with the wind direction, but…we are in our 48 hour window or less, where I place 80 % stock that the winds will comply 🙂 Then the winds are to turn S to SSE after 1 PM.
Oh Tuesday, my bad; same forecast as Sunday night with waist to chest high in the Am, 6 to 10 mph SE winds and decreasing thru the day. The swell is growing fast thru the day so a couple hours before dark, we should see some Shoulder high faces on the larger sets at the Cape, and definite overhead sets down South in Satellite Beach.
Get pumped.
Air temps max around 73 PM Tuesday, and around 79 and Sunny on Wednesday with some clouds. Water temps near shore around 68.5 so Wednesday will be skinnable, definitely rash-guardable 🙂
Wednesday February the 22nd, for 3 days straight has appeared to be the “Big Sweet Day”…..Glassy at some point on Wednesday, and chest to head high waves, ranging from North to South….I’ll continue this update below…
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A nice day, some Sun, a little haze, some fun waves, people just enjoying the beach 🙂
JOHNSON AVENUE UNKNOWN SURFER – GALLERY , Here’s a plug for Old-timers…The photos gallery here are from February 5, Sunday, from Johnson Ave. I have some days that my pop ups are lookin the same, I don’t know who this is, but I’m stoked to see him out there.
Little sluggish popup, with a nice reward to follow. Image 1 of 3 in sequence. February 5 2012, Johnson Ave. Photos by Oldwaverider.
A friend of mine through my church, Greg, had to quit surfing a little over three years ago cause it kept blowing out his shoulder. He turned 90 years old in 2011. He was hired the First year of N.A.S.A. , an Electrical Engineer I believe, and when N.A.S.A. was started in 1958, and he had surfed from then time until 2008 some time.
Turned into a clean thigh high cruiser. Image 2 of 3 in sequence.
Of course the reason he quit was because at 87, he also plays tennis 2 or 3 times a week, and since surfing is inconsistent and works your shoulders pretty hard, he’d best choose doing something where he could at least use his shoulder more consistently. SO THERE YA GOT IT, WE HAD TO DO A PLUG FOR OLD OLD TIMERS 🙂
He's gotta be stoked, it's all fun ! Image 3 of 3 in sequence.
Surf Update for Tuesday thru Thursday (2/21 – 2/23)…Tuesday morning we’ll have an ENE windswell showing some waist high waves maybe rib here at the Cape, and chest high down South until late afternoon when the full blown ground swell should hit. Before dark, we may have some just overhead faces down South and chest high plus here at the Cape, with ESE winds in the 7 to 10 mph range probably. The winds actually look to be backing down to under 10 mph thru the close of Tuesday day.
Wednesday, we ought to have some solid chest high lines at the Cape with some bigger sets, and shoulder to overhead down South in Satellite Beach, 2nd light. Winds sometime Wednesday maybe at day break, could go SSW around 10 mph, so your best call is somewhere South of 8th Street South to enjoy offshore winds. The Cape will probably have really clean form but not quite glass. SSW is kind sideshore to offshore for us. If you can make it South, awesome, it should be fun everywhere 🙂
Thursday, could have waist to chest high leftovers , North to South, with strong offshore winds in the 15 mph plus range.
Air & Water temps: Monday the air temps at the Cape show 53 ° at daybreak with 15 mph NNW winds (feels like 48), getting up to 65 ° by the high point. Tuesday looks to be 58 ° at daybreak climbing to 72 by mid-day, and the water temp will be 68 ° near shore. Wednesday, air temp warm up to about 77 for a high, so for 2 weeks from March, these are awesome warm temperatures and consistent waves. Get Excited !!
Thursdaythere is a 52.7 % chance of having some thigh high glassy waves on Thursday, but I believe down South mostly or only. South Cocoa Beach to Satellite. If the 120 buoy will provide us something like 3 to 3 1/2 feet, we may have a weak little ground swell.Winds should be SSW to S in the 6 to 8 mph range down South until 10 ish. Yeah, I like sticking my nose out 😉 I’m an optimist about swells and wind, the whole thing about gut feeling.
This past Sunday, I paddled out in Satellite Beach, and it was real fun rib high mostly, semi-glass waves with some fairly lengthy shoulders. Only 2 of us out. 4:00 afternoon, the winds were still howling around 16 North, air temp was 52 with a chill factor of 48, which I confess cut right thru my springsuit, but at least the water felt like a space heater at 68 🙂
The other guy came up with his wife, and he had a great session too, riding a 7’10.
I’ll finish this puppy on Thursday. Hope ya had a good day.
Triple overhead to 80 foot faces works best at Mavericks on a NW swell 🙂
At Mavericks, it breaks best with a NW swell from triple overhead to 80 foot faces before it starts closing out and getting dangerous. Hey, check out the chart. I wouldn’t kid you about something like that 😉 Their water temp is around 52°, with a 12 foot at 12 second period swell with onshore winds, and my guess, 20 foot faces right now on the sets.
A nice chest high wall that held up a long time for this guy. May not look pretty 🙂 Image 1 of 7 shot sequence.
Our Surf; we have 67.5 to 68 degree water for Sunday morning, and Rib to Shoulder high waves for the afternoon Sunday.Winds, at 2 to 3 PM are showing 16 mph NNW at the Cape.Air temp, 53°, with a 48 ° feels like temperature. But, it should be fairly glassy. I give it a 60 to 70 % chance that the winds do let the swell actually hit our beaches. Could be a fun session with a low crowd factor 🙂
Surfer unaware of Shrimping boat, just looking for the right time on the face of the wave. Image 2 of 7 shot sequence. Photos by Oldwaverider.
Monday morning, if the swell is permitted to hit our beaches, it could be some glassy leftovers with size, it doubt any bigger than waist high anywhere.
The Photos here are from the ENE swell on February 4rth 2012 at Hightower’s, where we had rib to shoulder high waves with some overhead faces on the drops.
Spray and the Stall. Image 3 of 7.Still plenty of wave left to work. Image 4 of 7 sequence. Feb. 4 2012 , Satellite Beach.I think he did a 360, but the little hole in the viewfinder doesn't let me see anything until the ride is done. Image 5 of 7. OldwaveriderPerfect re-entry. Image 6 of 7. Satellite Beach.Plenty more left on this wave to work...I just ran out of film 😉 Image 7 of 7 in sequence.
Short Surf Report below…the focus now is big wave video, my drug of choice 🙂
I had better be seeing one of you Johnson Avenue (and nearby streets :), Surfers asking Kelly Slater for the next steps you need to take to put yourself in places of Billabong XXL Surf locations. Not everyone or anyone is a hard core adrenaline junky, and not all adrenaline junkies burn their testosterone on the sport of Surfing, but the one who is, it’s a great chance to pursue your passion and live a dream of very few who have ever given it a try by just asking one of the folks in the Surfing World in Brevard how you can get started. It can’t hurt to have God on your side too like Slater and a number of others 🙂 (this is a blog right?, so I have to express opinions, you don’t have to buy them, but I do hope to help with producing those videos in the future)
This footage, is the sickest, most close-up, crystal clear stock of up close Jaws paddle-in surfing of 45 to 60 foot face Jaws. The day was January 4, 2012. Yeah there’s been a number of videos lately on the two massive paddle in sessions at Jaws this year, including that awesome Jeff Rowley footage; but these are 2 Surfer faces that aren’t seen there or haven’t been seen there before. Alex Gray, a balsy charger in the massive Cloudbreak, Fiji swell of July 2011, and I know other spots in the last year and a half (just can’t remember right now, and I’m sleepy). Plus, his eye for video and video creation and editing makes it that much more alive. His friend Dave Wassell, another insane charger (also a life guard in Hawaii and a Comedian, go figures :), who also has a respected set of Testostorone producing big wave chasing _ _ _ _s, some images from Cloudbreak of Dave show his passion for big-wave paddle in.
This video is pure eye-candy. I hope you have a Free Vimeo account so you can enjoy this puppy. (Vimeo is the YouTube place but with super HD full screen video as a standard)
The next few days we should have smaller than today down South, but more of the same, kinda of 2 to 3 foot swell that can be fun at the right tides. But Sunday night we do have a 5 to 6 foot swell rolling in that should be around for at least 2 to 3 days. The winds look to be N to NNW Wednesday Am in the 7 to 10 mph range and then going straight North. At the right tide it could be fun.
When Sunday gets closer we’ll track the swell and winds a little tighter. Have a great Wednesday hump day!
PHOTO GALLERY – UNKNOWN JOHNSON AVE SURFER PLUS HIGHTOWER BEACH GALLERY
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Today was Chest high peaks peeling left and right, with A-frames at Hightowers 🙂 Well, it would have been nice if we had direct offshore winds, but…close enough, a little SSE to S, maybe SSW light. Only 8 or 10 of us out, and again, I didn’t even need a wetsuit, the water was hanging around 69 ° again.
A nice waist high right, yeah, unknown surfer on Johnson Avenue. Image 1 of 6 in sequence. Feb 5 2012 wind swell. Photos by Oldwaverider (Art)
The first set of photos are from an Unknown Surfer to me, at Johnson Ave on a nice right. (maybe one day I’ll find out the names of the unknowns 🙂 The Johnson Avenue photos were taken about 12:30 PM, around 40 minutes past low-tide.
Image 2 of 6 of a nice waist high right. Johnson Avenue Surfer
The second part of the slideshow, is from Hightower Beach with a guy on a chest to shoulder high left. I took those around 10:15, after the winds turned SSE from calm, so it wasn’t as glassy as when I first paddled out around 8:30.
The rights and lefts were working great, the lefts maybe had some more juice to them.
Nice style of this unknown Wave Carver 🙂 Image 3 of 6 in sequence.
Mondaymay have some knee to waist high glass with a high period in the daybreak AM to kick up the power.The winds turn offshore just after Mid-nite, out of the SW and coming around to WNW at daybreak in the 3 to 7 mph range. By 9 or 10 AM, it appears to turn onshore out of the SSE.
Still going...Image 4 of 6 sequence. Photos by Oldwaverider
I don’t think the winds will blow the remaining swell flat overnight, so fingers crossed for some knee to waist high waves, Cape to Satellite Beach respectively 🙂
After Monday’s leftover’s, I don’t see much of anything down the Pike, except some knee high plus stuff for the Pier.
Image 5 of 6 in sequence.Image 6 of 6. The guy kept going and closed the deal, I just ran out of film.Hightower Beach SurferA nice long chest to shoulder high left, they were peeling really nice at Hightowers. Image 1 of 7 in sequence. Photos by OldwaveriderAfter he did an off the lip, he re-entered into that part of Hightower that bowls up and it jaced up the wave before his second re-entry. Image 2 of 7 in sequence.Image 3 of 7 in sequence. Sunday morning Feb 5 at Hightowers.Image 4 of 7 , with a nice re-entry.Image 5 of 7 shot sequence.Image 6 of 7 shot sequence. Same long left for this surfer.Final shot, Image 7 of 7 for a nice long left. Photos by OldwaveriderThree mid-agers pulling it in after a fun, warm winter water chest high session.
Sunday Surf potential is looking great! More in a minute on Sunday Surf report down below…
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Guess she's contemplating the water temp ?
Today (Saturday Feb. 4) was a great day of Onshore chest to head high surf!North RC’s was pumping really nice today, with 4 to 6 foot faces and an occasional 7 foot plus face that rolled through 🙂Many 70 to 100 yard rides were had by shortboarders and 1 longboarder out there. (yours truly)
Must be passing the word about the water temp to her friends 🙂
I took about 250 shots today, only 6 to 8 surfers out at the most at any one time. An easy paddle out, which was a gift from above considering how usually head high plus chop can be a brutal paddle out. From 11 to 2 PM the winds were probably no more than 12 mph east by the time I left my Surf and Photo session.
His intentions were good on this maybe head high right; Image 1 of 3 in sequence. Photos by Oldwaverider.
I hope y’all like variety, but with only 6 surfers out there, I had to find other photo targets, and the beach at a number of nice ladies soaking up the sun and entertaining their kids or nieces, nephews 🙂
Hey, one Surfer Girl skinned it surfing there in a 2 piece, and she said she was fine until she got to the boardwalk and the winds started hitting. It was warm out there today, nice 🙂
Damn , I thought my wax was good 😉 Image 2 of 3 sequence. North RC's ENE wind swell, February 4 2012
Sunday Surf; looks like a solid waist high to maybe rib high for the Cape and chest to shoulder high in Satellite Beach.The winds are now looking to be direct South winds from the Cape to Satellite. As y’all know, South winds are slight offshore for the South
Board and Surfer, underwater; Image 3 of 3 in sequence. Photos by Oldwaverider (Art)
Streets (4rth st south to 16th), but are 6 to 10 degrees offshore for Satellite Beach when you go South of 2nd light. The winds are looking to be 5 to 7 mph South at daybreak, possibly SSE until 8 AM, then South around 5 to 7. So it could easily be SSW for an hour or two until mayb 9 AM.
It was a great, Sunny and uncrowded family day too 🙂
The Cape, we may have some SSW by 9 or 10 Am for an hour or two, but that comes with 30 to 50 % Isolated Thunder Storms. South winds are onshore for the Cape, so to catch the glass, South of Picnic tables is your best bet.
Nice head high drop that tapered off, but still sweet. Image 1 of 5 shot sequence. North RC's from today Saturday Feb 4, 69 degree water, gotta love it!We've all pulled out a little too far on the drop of a steep peak; but he played catchup real well on this one! Image 2 of 5 in sequence.Working back up to the sweet spot...Image 3 of 5 shot sequence. Photos by OldwaveriderA smooth , mellow re-entry, Image 4 of 5 sequence. Satellite Beach on Saturday, February 4 2012When he dropped back in, though it looks like white water awaiting him, but it actually build back up to a nice inside section 🙂 Image 5 of 5 in sequence.She's back 🙂One of those 1 to 2 foot overhead drop, sets outside. No one on a longboard to snag it 😦
Either way, it should be a fun morning until the noon 50% chance of T-Storms hit.
A solo day at Hangars with some thigh to rib high sets. Image 1 of 9 in sequence. Photos by Jeremy Dugan
Today, we’ll be seeing weak chop/slop coming in, but by tonight and by Saturday morning, we should have some overhead chop down South, and chest to shoulder high here at the Cape.
Image 2 of 9 of a fun thigh to waist high right at Hangers, December 10 2010. Photos by Jeremy Dugan
Sunday, could beSSW at 5 -7 mph in Satellite Beach in the early morning, maybe until 8 or 9 AM. Canaveral and Cocoa Beach are showing South winds at daybreak. Should be chest to shoulder high from North to South respectively. Get it early!It will be high tide going low and at 8-9 AM it will be mid-tide, with Low tide around 11:50 AM Sunday morning. That’s your prime time with light winds and tide 🙂
Image 3 of 9 shot sequence at Hangers. Oldwaverider on a right 🙂
Monday morning the swell drops way off, but…the final period strength of the swell rolls in Monday morning so at daybreak, it could have some waist high power with offshore winds until 8 or 9 Am, maybe.
We’ll give an update sometime Saturdayto see how my 40 % “stick my neck out there” chance of offshore winds in Satellite Beach is falling into place 😉
New swell starts rolling in sometime Tuesday it looks like, another wind swell.
Image 4 of 9 sequence, Oldwaverider on a right at Hangers.
Don’t forget the Cape Canaveral Friday Fest tonight!“Flight Risk” will be the band on stage, and the consistently great sounds of “Lonnie & Delinda” will be under the tent on Poinsetta.
Image 5 of 9 shot sequence at Hangers.Image 6 of 9 in a sequence.Image 7 of 9 in sequence. December 10, 2010Image 8 of 9, a right at Hangers, OldwaveriderImage 9 of 9 shot sequence. Hangers, 2010
Incoming wind swell, probably will hang on for 3 or 4 days, with 4 to 6 foot face heights, depending a North or South break. More on the swell in a minute and down below…
Cloudbreak, Fiji photo by Stu and Malia Johnson. I dropped in the Poem. Art
This photo was taken by Stu and Malia Johnson, where they are Professional Photographers in Fiji, right by the famous break of “Cloudbreak”. Their website for a great variety of their work is here. (Yeah, I added the poem enhancement because it is one of the best pictures of a wave I have ever seen)
A friend posted the poem below to help stop violence in schools. For my Christian and Atheist friends and those in the middle, it certainly is food for thought when all the Public Schools had the “Neon Sign” reminder if you will removed from Public; (Christian Prayer in Schools, 10 Commandments taken from Courthouses and the Pledge of Allegiance diminshed ) Without a constant reminder, kids don’t have that deep down message that can get thru with them 🙂
I placed this in here because , well this is a blog 🙂 , and also because I see it’s wonderful power…
Mary had a little lamb his fleece was white as snow and every where that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. He followed her to school one day, it was against the rules. He made the children laugh and play to see a lamb at school. And then the rules all changed one day, illegal it became; to bring…. the Lamb of God to school or even say his name. Everyday got worse and worse, and days turned into years. Instead of hearing children laugh we heard gun shots and tears. What must we do to stop the crime thats in our schools today? Let the Lamb come back to school and teach our kids to PRAY!!!!
Back to Incoming Surf…
The swell starts rolling in Monday morning really steep from the NE. But by Tuesday, the angle turns from the East, on thru Thursday at least. We should see 4 to 6 foot faces depending on a North break or a South break. (obviously , the closer to Satellite Beach the bigger 🙂 Mostly medium East winds (probably 10 to 15 mph) until Thursday or Friday.
Possible offshore day on Thursday or Friday. We’ll keep ya posted.
A small 2.5 to 3 foot winds swell at 7 seconds, at Hightowers/RC's. Image 1 of 4 in sequence. Photos by Oldwaverider
10:30 PM Tuesday night update from 8:15 PM Report.The 120 is shrinking out there, to 3.9 ft at 6 seconds. I’m giving 11-12 AM waves in the morning about a 30 percent chance, as far as the size stated below. If it starts something after 3 or 4 Am and keeps rolling in, then we may be good, but I’m not optimistic. Read on below on my 8:15 PM report just so we’re on the same page, in case it does kick in some waves. Here endeth the 10:30 PM update.
There is a slideshow of these images below, but these you can at least click and see them closeup/higher rez if you want.
I skipped the pre-noon glass cause the size or pseudo-power wasn’t in yet, for the Cape. I had a fun 1 or 2 hour sesh on Johnson, with some fun semi-clean knee to thigh high sets with maybe a waist high coming thru. Lefts seemed to be working best. At least I didn’t have to do a wetsuit since the water was still 65° and the air temp 70 ish.
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I was fortunate enough to be surfing with Leo, a guy visiting from Holland. He said they have to wait quite a while for waves, and said the water temp over there right now is 0 to 4 degrees Celsius. The guy had a style I could only hope to achieve, especially when he told me he hadn’t been out for 5 months, due to getting over an injury.
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(But he’s still under 35 or 40 so he’s still yougn 🙂 Couldn’t pass that one up Leo, if you’re reading this. It was a great time, even if the waves were small.
Wednesday Surf; Right now (8:00 PM) the 120 buoy is telling me lousy waves for the morning, because the swell period out there is 6 seconds which provides no swell or power. But……….I suspect/believe after midnight, we may have an 8 or 9 second period start to push out there bringing us a 7 second period 2 to 3 foot swell by 9 Am ish. I believe that a paddle out at 11 AM could be fun down South and maybe at the Cape. The pier will fall in the middle. The winds will be 7 to 10 mph westerly mostly at 11 or 12 and picking up thru the day, and low tide is at 9:20 AM so a paddle out at 11:30 will have more water, the full 7 or 8 second period strength of the overnight push. The swell will have it’s last push out of the East instead of the NE like it was coming in today. So that should help for the Cape and the Pier and the Streets, the way they get blocked out by NE, and make the best impact of swell from 2nd light to RC’s.
Image 4 of 4 of a nice long cruiser left in Satellite Beach.
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The photos here are from a similar 2 to 3 foot 7 second period type of swell. Mostly longboard stuff , down South, but probably some short board fun.
Johnson Avenue Surfers 