Surfsouthoz has offered access to surf report archives since the launch of the re-vamped website in 2007, with historical data dating back to mid 2006.  For some time though, South Australia’s longest running internet surf report has been sitting on data  that goes further back. Possibly the best historical record of daily surf conditions on the web is Santabarbarasurfing, which dates back to 1995, but few Australian websites offer historical data.

As of today, Surfsouthoz hosts one of the longest web-accessible record of daily surf conditions anywhere  in the world, with new data dating back to September 2002.

The daily reports for the Mid Coast and South Coast areas of the Fleurieu Peninsula can be accessed through the Surf Report archive page, and presently has images dating back to the start of October, 2006.  Over the next 6 months images from several swell events dating back to 2003 will also be added. Surfsouthoz soon plans to offer a regularly updated archive file for export covering for both regions, that can be downloaded in comma separated format, free of charge.

The final part of the archive project will incorporate written records dating back to January 1998, in the form of a personal surf diary. This eyewitness perspective describes significant swells on the Fluerieu from early 1998 to 2001, with the first entries available in late February.

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