Rusty and Caroline’s Pitch Report Just before dawn the wind peaks at 40km/hour. North East. No where to hide. Messy onshore slop. High tide 1224 per Willy, there’s a lot of sand showing. A big sandbank creating a short wave at the point. Chippo cites the seagull rule, no seagulls = no...

  Tonight I’m gonna have myself a real good time. I feel alive And the world I’ll turn it inside out, yeah 6am time to reflect. Times past, current times. The happiest of times, the saddest of times.       That’s why they call me Mister Fahrenheit. Guy is expecting big things tomorrow, he...

the glorious sun rises on our Revolution   Across the long winter of the pandemic, conversations were whispered in the corridors of power. Talk of Revolution from the iron rule of the Establishment. There will be a day when the anarchy of the individual will again rule the Manly shores, when the 7am borg collective...

D E D I C A T I O N from our local weatherman Guy is going shopping afterwards for a new umbrella (and some waterproof chalk)   Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality 620am keen beans Online sales are live…or it is just...

Full load and thunder, Ribbons of blue Ice on the window, Ice in my heart Fooling with thunder, Every time we start     Bleak look out the window. Bleak walking. A real community feel when you all huddle out of the rain. Sarge channels Big Merv Bay 13 antics. While Guy plots in the...

Out where the river broke, The bloodwood and the desert oak Holden wrecks and boiling diesels, Steam in 45 degrees   Summer has roared. 23 before sunrise. My calendar marked from last year, ‘geese gate’. I look for the topless sheila with 2 geese in a pram. No luck.   Search the skyline for the...

    The Exiles are back this week. But where did everyone else go? Was expecting ANZAC Day level crowds, and the beach was … empty. Back to the gym, back to work, or just some wet wintry weather? I think the wetter the better. The Masters of the Universe and other exiled groups returned,...

      Rusty and Caroline’s Pitch report What a sunrise! It’s getting harder to catch at 5.32am. Then the sun went back to bed. Calmer conditions, some nice waves around. 17.5C warming. Viz improving. Caught a PJ sneaking out of his hole. Reports of 1 jimble in the middle. Chatted to The Crash Test...

Look daaarling, an art showing/auction today upstairs (BEST SUNRISES OF 2021) in the surf club! How delightful! We must go up the inside stairs, through the men’s showers, oh dear. Look there’s Swanbourne Sam, mighty fine specimen, I heard that about Perth men. Avert your eyes, Murray is showing off his water skills again. Look...

Rusty & Caroline’s Pitch report The shark boat was pacing back and forth between 5.30 and 7am this morning, laying the summer nets? Yesterday’s Nor Easter has brought some warmth back to the air & water. The bower breaks looks smaller, a nice little wave off Manly. Surfers in their hundreds. Jelly babies everywhere in...