Coarse sand/gravel makes for a steep beach and usually not much surf. It's sheltered from bigger waves, most of the time, which also encourages steepness. When there are waves, it's shorebreak. Pearl Beach, a bit north of Sydney. For comparison, the famous Sydney beaches face the ocean directly.

Note the bigger waves much farther out

Edited: 08/10/2020 at 05:46 AM by ww

They have been watching too many raw beefs!!

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Time and tide wait for no one.....

Schadenfreude

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I was right.

Raw Beefs, definitely. Of course on any day when this thing is operating, the major surfing beaches will be busy with big, ridable waves

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Edited: 08/10/2020 at 02:30 PM by equipeola

)))! I dislocated both shoulders just now watching that~~ damn -- smh

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What a great wave said no one.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

That's more or less the point. Australia's infested with decent-to-great waves. This one actually has signs warning people not to swim when there's waves. Here's something more interesting, the Newport Wedge on a little day, entertaining the kids.