The ocean in very much a Summer Mood of a little NE swell, after seabreezes (NE) and swollen sand banks. This means that the point breaks at Merewether are not working and all beach breaks are tending to close out.
Along the Merewether to Pogo's stretch on Thursday and Friday the surf was unattractive at all tides. And whe there were some off decent waves breaking, the surf-starved Kooks were in abundance.
Saturday I made a virgin pilgrimage to One Mile Beach, 80 k and an easy 1 hr. Drive. The e-forecasts iddntified tge ESE swell as being ok for OMB.
The beach looked a picture and being Saturday was very crowded with: surfboard hiring thrashers, backpackers (chicks in thongs riding mals is very distracting), grommies and dads pushing kids on waves. At the S end the kids being shoved onto was were gobbling up 2' waves that were very hard to pickup.
I then paddled over to the first beach break N of the flagged area. The beach here was picking up more swell (3') but many were close outs. In fact, sll tge set waves did close out thunderously and it was amusing watching two older kooks on softies taking these and planning what to do if they "broke [their] necks". By ptocess of elimination I decided that the smallest waves were the go. But by picking and chosing, the wave count wS low and I managed less that 10 waves. The manoeuvre of the day was a very short noseride.
Overall, a very pleasant experience to be splashing about in such an atmoshere with great "scenery". Next time I think larger swell (S point break) and a weekday should improve prospects if a decent surf. Nearby Birubi, on a weekday, may also be worth a look.
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