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Over the last few days, we’ve had some incredible weather on the Sunshine Coast. Category 2 winds (120+ km/hr), rain squalls, and massive seas on all beaches.

TV footage shows some excellent surf at Duranbah (Gold Coast) but the only info we had on any of the sunny coast beaches was that ‘almost all were closed on account of the big seas’.

So… some must have been open. And given the size and direction of the swell, I thought Noosa was the one.

I drove to work today via Noosa Heads and then David Low Way (to Coolum). Sure enough there was plenty of action. The usual crowd at the breakwater, looked to be 1.5m, and then all the points were operational (although I didn’t see Granite or Ti Tree, but First Point & carpark had swell so you had to assume the others were working as well).

Here’s the link to coastwatch’s Noosa surfcam (you’ll probably need to refresh). This site also has archived footage over the last few days - looks like right now is the time to get wet.