And the weather window closes ...

So the hope was to be leaving Yamba / Iluka early on Tuesday morning and staying in front of a 15 knot southerly with 2.5m swell heading up to the Gold Coast arriving Wednesday midday ish.
Anyway looks like it's coming through a bit earlier and  by the time we get to Byron Bay it will have caught up with us. We'd be running with a 3m southerly swell up to the border at least but it should have died down to 1.5m by the time we get to the Gold Coast.  I guess at least it would be behind us.  We'll still go under the Harwood bridge tomorrow just in case the forecast changes again but at this stage we'll be here another week or so. The arrows show wind strength and direction while the shaed blue shows the swell height.

And the swell direction and height