Random surfcam images
Dolphin v Sup. Brilliant.
There is a local reef that I have given up surfing super early before dawn such is the sea life. Dolphins, seals, and massive schools of panicked fish and recently the pectoral fin of a whale ambling past.
Once when I was about to duck dive a set wave about to close out on me a dolphin flew straight out of the wave's face and right over me. When I came up a whole pod of them were all over the line up swimming around and taking any wave they wanted!
That first point bomb set come through yet?
(thought this was going to be attached to Ben's comment on the picture of First Point from the middle of last year - the one with the three crew sitting patiently wide at flat 1st point - doesn't quite have the same impact when it's 50 posts later... Happy New year SN crew)
Geez the Duranbah Cam is very entertaining today.
Did someone tweek it today so it stays focussed in the one spot and has been zoomed in? Pretty good to watch....in-between working.
Yeah when the action's good we'll zoom it in. Been plenty of burnings!
Also they seem to think its ok to park in the “No Standing zone” across from the Cafe when buying takeaways........
One shot every ten minutes.. what are the chances! A few mins ago at Cabarita.
Salute the boss! Now that's how ya do a Captain's pick! (Take note Pollies!)
Ben's bird man susses out swellnet's new high flyers comment cam.
Must be swellnet business class with miles of leg room in the mile high club.
Nothing special, but I thought this was kinda cool for the automated-10min image grab. 13th Beach this AM.
Again, to reiterate - our surfcam still image system takes a single snapshot every ten minutes. With that in mind, this frame from Lorne is phenomenal.
The current view on the Dbah cam and Tweed Bar cam is interesting..
Its scaffolding on the side of the building, as Optus are putting in a new mobile tower on the roof (apparently to assist in the spread of Covid-19). Will be there for a few weeks.
If a stork brings white babies and a crow brings black babies, what brings no babies?
A bloody big swallow!
NZ / Welcome Swallows(Coloured/Broad Shorter wing) 'resemble' Vic Swifts
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/kHWOpOBJPlyQvmNJwfr8H72OetIpooa…
(Fork Tailed Swifts) Apus pacificus. N/E Asia < Migrate > Vic/SA Coasts
https://www.oiseaux.net/photos/aurelien.audevard/images/id/martinet.de…
Improbability over-drive : Swifts clock 120-170km/hr...
This Swift was a month early > 150km + [< 50m Freeze frame >] @ 10min interval.
Birds are wired to Craig's ECL reports which trigger Ben's Lorne cam..(A scam it is!)
Basically Storm Birds feast on Bugs in Currents like Bait Fish in Currents!
Swifts Rock up for Lorne Schoolies / Surf the Vic Surf Coast Cliffs sleeping mid air.
Hitch rides around to SA - Start of Winter vacates Oz to hit up N/E Asia Summer.
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ycuPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA102&lpg=PA102&dq…
Currumbin at 7.45 shows the dredge being towed into the creek for annual dredging program.
This signals the beginning of the end for the bank every year.
First time I've seen lightning proper on the cam.. (instead of just flashes)
Hi.
Figured this was a good spot for this. I’m thinking about subscribing but wondering if I could get a screen shot of the Sunshine Beach cam and/or hint of which entrance it is pointed at (the thumbnail doesn’t give me much).
Cheers
A few moments ago at Margaret River - old mate tried to paddle into a bomb, stalled, slipped off his board thanks to surface chop - and then the gusty offshore blew his board up into the air. Speccy stuff.
I don't know how to take a screen grab but just sitting here at my desk and thought I'd have a look at the cams and spent over 20 enjoyable minutes watching a kite surfer having a whale of a time surfing Margs. He/she was real good too. Definitely making the most of a Saturday arvo, as opposed to me.
One still image every ten minutes.. and this is what was captured at Lorne when the shutter opened.
So good. I have quite a few shots of skies like that. Early morning and sunset, when there’s no clouds on the horizon but clouds above, always so special. Nature throws out a million Rembrandts and Monets a year, you just have to look.
Dbah at 10:52 this morning, copper booking a poor bloke in a van parked the wrong way just trying to check the surf :(
gromnuggets wrote:
Dbah at 10:52 this morning, copper booking a poor bloke in a van parked the wrong way just trying to check the surf :(
Well spotted, here it is (skip to 3.40)...
https://www.swellnet.com/surfcams/duranbah/replays#/2021-06-01/1351396
Misread that on the home page Ben...
Also looks like it's reaching the ground, so not quite virga?
Oi, stop it.
And, 'showers' doesn't partially rhyme with 'Maroubra', either.
I was watching shark island cam from here in the west coast one day about a year or so ago and saw something splashing at surge and no one out. Later on facebook a couple of my cronulla friends were talking about a 4metre great white that was out there. Should have screen shotted it. Despite the name sharks are not regulars out shark island.
speaking of Shark Island Groundswell....Did you ever know of an old 70's/80's charger named Gerry Manyon?
He had a double page mag photo spread that took pride of place on my wall, standing in a huge Shark Island pit......Talkin late 70's now, but epic all the same
Say his name three times and he might just pop out like Beetlejuice.
Every week our surfcams output some interesting/arty/bizarre still images.. it's about time I started documenting 'em.