{"id":46357,"date":"2014-03-21T03:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T03:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theperfectwave.com.au\/blog\/?p=8579"},"modified":"2020-07-21T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T01:32:29","slug":"love-lusi-tales-photos-video-clips-first-cyclone-swell-season-east-coast-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/magazine\/australia-au\/love-lusi-tales-photos-video-clips-first-cyclone-swell-season-east-coast-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Lusi \u2013 Tales, photos and video clips from the first cyclone swell of the season on the East Coast of Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>By Ben Horvath<\/b><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cyclone Lusi tracked rapidly southward towards the north island of New Zealand late last week delivering thick,&nbsp; overhead, long \u2013 period lines right up and down the East Coast from Saturday afternoon March 15 onwards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 my-3\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.mysurf.tv\/categories\/fresh-press\/177-mysurf-tv-we-love-lusi-19-04-2014\/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"> width=\"480\" height=\"274\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Noosa, Gold Coast and far northern NSW surfers enjoyed the first overhead sets early on Saturday afternoon. Keen Sydney surfers lapped up some ultra clean 3ft sets post storm on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The anticipation for swell was out of control. Everyone was fully psyched due to the total lack of cyclone swells or indeed any swell of consequence so far this season. &nbsp;All the forecasting sites, social media and Dick Whittaker and his cohorts on The Weather Channel primed the entire surfing community all week that Sunday was going to be \u201cThe Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In truth, Sunday morning was hit and miss. The swell filled in rapidly, but the wind was a little N-NW at first light, and the tide was rushing in, making most point and reefbreaks extremely full and masking the swell size to a certain extent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Heaps of crew got skunked on Sunday morning. There were so many people milling about in beachside car parks checking, that it was quite scary. <\/strong>Too many crew were over amped, driving around sussing every single nook and cranny before driving home frustrated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Experienced weather watchers and wave hustlers timed their sessions for Sunday PM and Monday AM. Mid afternoon on Sunday a W-SW wind change co incided with the peak pulse in E-NE energy, ensuring some mind-blowing late afternoon and evening sessions were enjoyed in Sydney and surrounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A mental session went down out at Cape Solander. &nbsp;The E-NE swell direction and low tide combo meant it was ultra hectic. &nbsp;Kirk Flintoff and Jezza Hrbac even charged some ridiculously draining lefts, whilst Koby Abberton, Mark Mathews, Makua Rothman, Dan Ross, Perth Standlick and a bunch of other full metal chargers nailed some intense below sea level pits at Ours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 my-3\"><iframe class=\"embed-responsive-item lazyload\" data-src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/89365761?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"> width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Too many beach breaks were closing out as a result of the super straight, long period E-NE lines. Tamarama, Manly, Nth Narrabeen, Nth Av, Whale and Barrenjoey were the standout Sydney exceptions. Barton Lynch said, \u201cBarrenjoey was real nice late on Sunday arvo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Manly stretch late on Sunday evening was all time. Kaz from Aloha Manly said, \u201cIt was a solid 6-8ft for the late. There were thick, double overhead A frame pits everywhere you looked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">South of Sydney, Clarrie Bouma said, \u201cSunday was without doubt the best day of the year so far. Everyone was surfed out late on Sunday, so you could actually get a wave out The Point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Monday was picture-perfect. A moderate offshore W-SW wind fanned the thick, clean long period E lines until at least 1.00pm when the NE sea breeze shut the shop. Most beach breaks were again an option on Monday as the swell size and period eased a notch, spreading the crowds and opening up all sorts of options.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I type this late morning on Tuesday, the wind is again threatening from the north, after another morning of 3-4ft offshore bliss and there is talk of a similar episode this Sunday\/Monday. Ah, the joy of autumn. Bring it on &#8211; I say!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ben Horvath Cyclone Lusi tracked rapidly southward towards the north island of New Zealand late last week delivering thick,&nbsp; overhead, long \u2013 period lines right up and down the East Coast from Saturday afternoon March 15 onwards. width=&#8221;480&#8243; height=&#8221;274&#8243; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; allowfullscreen=&#8221;allowfullscreen&#8221;> Noosa, Gold Coast and far northern NSW surfers enjoyed the first overhead sets<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/magazine\/australia-au\/love-lusi-tales-photos-video-clips-first-cyclone-swell-season-east-coast-australia\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":46459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_glsr_average":0,"_glsr_ranking":0,"_glsr_reviews":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perfectwavetravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}