Aisling's Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty here. Let’s have a look at the waves ahead for Aisling’s Beach.

It’s a pretty bleak outlook for the next couple of weeks, I won’t lie to you. We’ve got a long stretch of small, messy, and mostly onshore slop that’s going to test your patience. The water temp is 61°, which is pretty much spot on for this time of year, so no surprises there.

We start off this Wednesday afternoon with just 0.7ft of easterly wind swell, and a 22 mph offshore breeze that’ll make it look clean but there’s nothing to ride. That weak energy reading of 21 tells you all you need to know. Thursday sees a little bump to around 3ft from the SSE, and that 9-second period gives it a bit of shape. Morning is the call with a 16 mph offshore wind. It’s a knee-high dribbler, but there’s a bit of life in it. That moderate energy of 201 will push a few lines through.

Friday morning drops back to 2ft and goes glassy with those 3 mph winds. It’ll be pretty, but it’s weak and fat. From Friday afternoon right through to the 18th, it’s a proper dry spell. We’re talking days of small junk, 1ft to 3ft at best, with winds mostly onshore or cross-onshore out of the NE and NNE. The energy readings are minimal, mostly under 100, and a lot of these swells are below 8 seconds, which is junk-period windswell. This isn’t surf, it’s just chop.

Now, there’s a couple of things that catch the eye further out. Saturday the 19th, a week and a half from now, has some potential. Early morning there’s a pulse of 5ft SSE swell with a 9-second period, and the energy jumps to 337. The wind is a light 6 mph cross-offshore, so it’ll be clean. That’s the pick of the whole window. It’s not giant, but it’s the best combo of size, shape, and wind we get. Don’t sleep on the Sunday morning of the 20th either. It’s not as big, but that 5ft from the NE has the energy at 248 and it’s dead glassy. The period is a short 6 seconds though, so expect it to be a bit lumpy. After that, it fades back to small dribble for the rest of the week.

Honestly, if you’re a beginner, that 5ft stretch on the 19th morning is manageable, but everything else is just a paddle. This break is fairly consistent but the quality is just not there. We get these long flat spells, so don’t stress, it won’t stay poor forever.

Signing off, Rusty.

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