Charts: The charts and weather models are indicating that there’ll be a large area of high pressure over the southern part of the country and in the Tasman Sea extending a ridge along the Qld Coast, which will generate SE winds. There is a low, ex TC Paul in the Coral Sea, which is not… Continue reading Issued at 4.45pm 11th April 2024 for 13th & 14th April
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Issued at 5.30pm 4th April 2024 for 6th & 7th April
Charts: The charts and weather models are indicating that there’ll be a big high in the Tasman Sea extending a ridge along the Qld Coast. A trough is expected to develop along the southern Qld Coast, which in conjunction with the moist onshore air feed from the high, will trigger showers, rain and storms and… Continue reading Issued at 5.30pm 4th April 2024 for 6th & 7th April
Gold & Sunshine Coast Report issued at 5.45am Tuesday 26th March 2024
Weather: Today’s forecast is cloudy with a 90-95% chance of showers and rain and a top temperature of 23-24 degrees Wind: The wind forecast is for light S/SW early, becoming 10-15 kts E/SE during the morning. Showers and rain can cause fluctuations in wind speed and direction Swell: 1m E/SE on the open beaches. Smaller… Continue reading Gold & Sunshine Coast Report issued at 5.45am Tuesday 26th March 2024
SEAFARER V-SEA 4.74
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Issued at 5pm 29th February 2024 for Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
Charts: The charts and weather models are indicating that the back edge of a weak high in the Tasman Sea will be over the SE Qld coast on Saturday and Sunday. A Southerly change is on the NSW coast and is currently expected to push through the SE Qld coast on Sunday night or Monday… Continue reading Issued at 5pm 29th February 2024 for Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd March 2024
Diving Flinders Reef
From the Coastwatch Vault, this Clint Hempsall dive site profile on Flinders Reef off Cape Moreton
Gold & Sunshine Coast Report Issued 5.35am 31 January 2024
Wind: 10kt S/SE winds early, forecast to become 10-15kts SE, reaching 15-25kts this afternoon Swell: 1m Easterly on the beaches, but it looks like a SE swell is building offshore Tides: Low 5am & 6pm … High 11.30am Best waves: The swell has picked up a bit is still small and lacking power. With Southerly… Continue reading Gold & Sunshine Coast Report Issued 5.35am 31 January 2024
24 August 2023
Hervey Bay Snapper, pearl perch, red emperor, maori cod, tuskfish and cobia east of Breaksea Spit, school mackerel around the bait schools in the bay, sand whiting on the making tide along the beaches from Burrum Heads to Urangan, flathead at the creek mouths, bream along the rocky foreshores, grunter bream, barramundi and mangrove jack… Continue reading 24 August 2023
13 July 2023
A closed season applies to snapper and pearl perch throughout Queensland tidal waters from 15 July to 15 August. Hervey Bay Coral trout and grassy sweetlip on the wide reefs, cobia in Platypus Bay, school mackerel in the western bay, bream, flathead and whiting on the flats on the western side of Fraser Island, queenfish… Continue reading 13 July 2023