Sep 28 09 In Byron Bay Today

Whale of a time, In Byron Bay Today. For those of us who surf it was indeed a very strange day in Byron Bay. The swell was forecast to be from the south. Which although it’s not the best direction you could ask for here, it’ll do if it’s big enough. It was well and truly big enough, yet not a ripple was even making it into the bay. If I didn’t know better I’d say the swell was from the south west, which considering we live on the east coast of Australia, is almost impossible. Yet if you stood up at the cape and looked. There were the swell lines running almost at right angles to the ocean beach and bending in a long loop as they swept straight past the cape and out to sea. Weirdest swell I’ve ever seen, even in a straight south two metre swell you can expect a little knee high log wave in the bay. But not today; it was Lake Byron today and there was not a rideable wave to be seen. Meanwhile around the other side it was big and messy with very few people trying to take it on. So there we were, mid afternoon, we’d searched everywhere for a rideable wave and found almost nothing. This is rare as we’re easily pleased. When suddenly a mother Humpback and her calf cruised into the bay and put on a show for us. It was almost possible to imagine she was teaching the little one how to play. They breached, slapped tails and just had a Whale of a time, In Byron Bay Today.
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