Bay, Beach and Ocean conditions
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Swellnet Swellnet provides very accurate swell & surf forecasts and also has live webcams at various beaches around Australia. |
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Port Phillip Bay water temperature Graph of Port Phillip Bay (north, mid & south) and Bass Strait ocean water temperatures. |
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Current Port Phillip Bay data Current details about Port Phillip Bay, including:
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Westernport Bay water temperature Graph of Westernport Bay (north, mid & south) and Bass Strait ocean water temperatures. |
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Wave buoy at Point Nepean The Port of Melbourne site has a link to view the current swell height and water temperature in Bass Strait off Portsea. Click the "Online wave data" link to see it. |
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Trigger Brothers surfshop The Trigger Brothers surfshop. This has live webcams at Point Leo, Sorrento back beach, Lorne, Torquay, Flinders & Gunnamatta so you can see what it's like out there. |
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CSIRO sea surface temperatures Clickable map which gives recent sea temperatures around Australia. |
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Victorian EPA beach report Check how clean the beach is before going there. |
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Clean Ocean Foundation Stop dumping waste and sewerage in our oceans. Also has some useful info and links. |
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Channel Deepening Project The website for the project that is dredging the shipping channels in Port Phillip Bay. Critics of this project have stated that it will cause long-term damage to the Bay and is unnecessary. All users of the Bay should be aware of the effects of this project and how it can adversely impact your enjoyment of the Bay. |
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Blue Wedges Organisation to protect Port Phillip Bay from activities such as the Channel Deepening (ie. dredging) project. |
Bass Strait water temperatures
This graph shows the water temperature through the year in Bass Strait. This was based on figures from 2000 to 2010 from Andrew Watkins' excellent site at www.baywx.com. The low and high lines show the coldest and warmest temperatures over the sample period.
Other useful Open Water Swimming pages
If you didn't find what you were looking for on this page, or would like to browse for more information about open water swimming or beach & water conditions, try these pages:
- Back to OWS home page
- Victorian Open Water Swim Calendar
- Open Water Swimming general websites
- OWS timing, registration and administration websites
- Websites of organisations running Open-Water Swims
- Casey Seals Open Water Swim Award
