South Swells for Central Victoria

There's no discernible correlation between swell direction and time of year (although, rare south-east windswells are more common in these months).

However, Vicco never really receives straight southerly energy - just swells with more south in 'em than usual (SW direction is most common, so the window veers to the W/SW and S/SW depending on the storm track).

I take it your only talking about the east of Melbourne, the Victoria I live in gets quite a bit of south swell.

Well, seeing that the thread title was "Central Victoria", and Nick lives on the "Mornington Peninsula", my answer was skewed towards his location.

However, even west of Cape Otway (which is technically more open to south swells), the dynamics of the Southern Ocean rarely lends itself to develop a straight southerly fetch aimed at this region. Sure, there may be a stong south component in a swell but it'll rarely be a true southerly swell.

@ben, seeing you are onboard today I'll ask a question about Vicco. Is it me or are Victorian summers getting worse in the terms of desired swell and wind directions? Have any historical data in the bottom drawer? It seems that for the last few summers about mid October it goes to jelly and mostly stays that way to late Jan or early Feb.

I await your most considered reply and the 100s of Victorians who are going to say its the best summer ever!!

There's no historical data to confirm or deny such a claim, but I'm looking into a project where we may be able to shed a little more light into this kind of thing. Sorry I can be of any more help!

Yeah, here it is Nick.. https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-analysis/2013/04/11/buoys-follow-one-direction

Hey nick bone, trawl through these comments, fair few basic rules of thumb about the bass straight sprinkled throughout

http://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet-dispatch/2012/03/29/early-bells-fo...

Btw Nick BONE, I hitched a ride with a guy who had a BONE thugs n harmony album in the centre console, wasn't you was it? Cheers anyway haha :p

WTF are you doing down in Vicco, Mitch???

Hahaha got family down here aye. Tell ya what though I'm not getting many point waves on my beachie setup, don't think bigger fins will even help me. I WANNA GO BACK TO PHILIP ISLAND!

You on the west side - surf coast? Port Fairy?

Fark me nek minnit Coles insurance'll be calling to tell me about their personal items insurance I've shared so much online. Peace :p

Mitch.. Been watching you on google earth.. FFS paddle harder... Don't expect the wave to catch you.... Nice place where you're staying.. ;)

If you're chasing more details Sheepy then send us a private message....I've been going through his garbage.

I don't envy you, blowin, rummaging through empty lentil packets, out of date tofu, "essential oils" and used body wax strips......

One mans trash is another mans treasure Sheepy.

I've made a couple of grand producing high grade merkins from those used body strips.

I've been meaning to tell you Mitch . Honestly.

Well you should scrape the wax off his board.... Be at least 4 merkins worth there... He uses strawberry wax, so they should already be scented.....

Just jokes Mitch. Would hate to cause any ill feelings to any of the Swellnet crew.

I think it may have been a little later in the year but I do recall a number of days with SE swell and S winds over at the surfcoast. I think there was even a SN wave of the day of Lorne point doing a decent impersonation of Noosa.

You mean this one?

Thats the one. Geez, time gets away, that's a good few months earlier than I remembered. About as fun as Lorne point gets.

Simply a solid short range SE swell with a light W'ly breeze. Doesn't happen often.