Perfect swell hits the Sunshine Coast in Australia
Almost every time when I come back to the Sunshine Coast here in Australia there is a big swell rolling in. It was not different this time. For the last two weeks since I´m here we had almost constantly good to perfect surf conditions here. I almost forgot how good the surf here can be, especially in winter time. I guess this was the first good sweel of the season.
As I´m living on the 8th Floor opposite the beach I do not need any forecast, I just step out on the balcony and see this...
Since I did not had my own board until a few days ago I was forced to watch all the others surf these absolute perfect waves. I stopped counting the barrels that got ridden as almost every wave here barrels on such a swell. The only downside here are the crowds...its insane. It was bad 3 years ago but it only got worse. On this spot alone I counted at least 50 people in the water.
Anyway after my coffee with the Lorikee gang I grabbed my camera and went for a walk along the beach to take some photos. If I can´t surf it myself I want at least to take some nice shots of the action.
I didn't just see one perfectly surfed barrel after another, I also spotted my first Galas. Another local bird that I really like. Not as common here as the Lorikee but at least as beautiful.
Below are some more barreling waves and a sequence of photos that show what can go wrong when waves are breaking that fast and hollow. You really need to be quick when popping up and its really hard to keep your ballance on such fast waves.
On days like these you see such wipeouts all the time and sometimes they look really nasty. Just yesterday I heard that a 14 year young boy almost died at that beach on the weekend. He must have hit his head and got unconscious for almost 15 minutes. He´s good again but it could have ended very very bad for him.
Sometimes you´re just lucky and get the right wave and everything works like it should. Like that guy below who has surfed a perfect barrel. Unfortunately I have no photos of him getting out of it.
The waves this weekend where not only looking perfect some of them also were quite huge like you can see on that last photo. On some of these days I would have not paddled out even if I had a board. :)
The swell is now slowly fading away and we´re waiting for the next big one hitting the coast. Until then we enjoy the other beautiful things this area has to offer like the Mount Coolum in the back that I will walk up to in the coming days.
Hope you liked that series of surf shots as I will be doing much more of these from all the different spots here on the sunshine coast.
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Wow - those crowds are a South African's nightmare! I usually grumble about sharing the line-up with ANYONE! Hahaha!
Crowds are crazy especially on weekends and public holiday...so this weekend we had the worst combo, weekend, public holiday on monday and monster swell. I went in on monday for one hour and caught one wave 😂
Awesome captures @betterthanhome 😎
And to be that high in the building, what a stunning view you have there.
I can feel your pain of not being able to go out. 🌊
Great views when you went out. And such a cute birds.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Have a wonderful week 👋🏻😊
Thank you so much. In the meantime I was in the water and it felt so good. Have a great day
You are welcome 😁 awesome! That’s great to hear.
Thank you so much, enjoy yours.
Beautiful pics with these perfect barrels...
Thank you. I can´t get enough of photos of waves. It has something magical
Gah, it's so busy in the water even down here when it's cold. Yesterday I counted 50 at Bells and 35 at Winki - big swell too. I had to shout at someone at my small break for dropping in. His excuse: 'I didn't think you were going to get it'. It's so dangerous sometimes. But wow - nice swell. Do you ahve a board now? How long are you here for?
oh it was crazy when we arrived...first good swell I guess. 50 is crazy...in the meantime I´ve been in Noosa...wow that was insane and the surf wasn´t even that good. Caught 4 waves and got dropped in on 3.
love these excuses, best one is "I haven´t seen you".
Yes, I bought a second hand one again as I was shocked about the prices. We´re going to stay here for a whole year...at least thats the plan :)