BEACH WATCH
SMALL low pressure system to the north has swung the swell around. A slight increase likely on Sunday. Conditions to improve on outside banks on the lower tides during the morning. Swell from the east at 1 to 1.5m. Wind light and variable tending north to northeast. Run-out tide for the morning surf - check out northern corners. Nobbys, Newcastle beach and South Bar first up. Bar Reef on afternoon high. Burwood, Redhead and Frenchmans to the south. Buribi at Port Stephens. Sweeps in southern corners and some unseasonable bluebottles about. Water temp 18C. - Dave Anderson
HUNTER BOATING
Winds Variable about 10 knots becoming northeasterly 15 to 20 knots in the middle of the day then tending northerly in the evening, reaching 25 knots offshore. Seas Below 1 metre, increasing to 1 to 1.5 metres during the afternoon. Swell Northeasterly 1 to 1.5 metres, tending easterly below 1 metre by evening. Weather Partly cloudy.
NEWCASTLE SHIPPING
ARRIVALS - Yesterday: Fpmc 31, 8.45am; Ever Best, 9am; African Buzzard, 10am; Rb Lisa, 10.30am; Key Knight, 4pm; Langeoog, 5pm; Spirit Of Ho-ping, 6pm; Ishizuchi Ii, 7.30pm. Today: Golden Arion, 2.30am; Corona Splendor, 4am; Kaiyo, 9.30am; Panormos, 2pm; Shoyoh, 3pm; Wincanton, 5pm; Pan Mutiara, 8.45pm; Tohoku Maru, 9.45pm; Gns Harmony, 11.03pm.
DEPARTURES - Yesterday: Bulk Bolivia, 1.30am; Indian Harmony, 5.31am; Machiavelli, 12pm; Tsukuba Maru, 1.30pm. Today: Ocean Trinity, 12.01am; Cape Aria, 1am; Key Knight, 7.30am; Spirit Of Ho-ping, 11.30am; Ever Best, 12.30pm; Jia Yue, 4pm; Rb Lisa, 6pm; Ishizuchi Ii, 7pm; Fpmc 31, 8pm; Golden Arion, 9.33pm; Corona Splendor, 10pm; African Buzzard, 10.45pm.
AIR QUALITY
Newcastle Very good Wallsend Very good Beresfield Very good Singleton Very good Muswellbrook Very good
