Anne Street Reef Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, mate, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s on offer down at Anne Street Reef over the next couple of weeks.

It’s a bit of a slow burner to be honest. For the first few days, from the 5th through to the 8th, we’re looking at small, short-period swell with a lot of onshore and cross-onshore wind messing things up. The water’s a bit colder than usual for this time of year, so you’ll want the thicker rubber. The energy is weak to moderate, around 103 to 160, and the waves are just not really doing anything for us. It’s a lot of closeouts and chop. You’d be better off doing something else.

Now, there’s a little window on the morning of Sunday the 9th. The wind drops right out to glassy, and that east swell picks up a touch to 4ft at 9 seconds. The energy jumps to 253, which is the most we see for a while, and things finally clean up. This is your window if you’re a beginner or just want some easy, clean waves. The swell is a bit straight for the beach, but the reef should sort it out. This is the standout of the first week.

After that, the wind goes a bit all over the place. Monday the 10th has a moderate offshore, which is clean, but the swell drops back to 3ft. It’s surfable but pretty ordinary. The same story continues for a few days, with light winds and small, clean but unremarkable waves. The energy is moderate but nothing special.

Then things get properly messy. From the afternoon of the 14th through to the 19th, we’ve got a run of rain showers and fresh cross-shore winds, with the swell picking up a bit to 5ft, but the period drops right off to 6 or 7 seconds. That’s just short-period wind chop, and it’s going to be lumpy and horrible. The energy reads moderate to strong, around 200-plus, but it’s all that cross-shore wind pushing it around. This setup looks far more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing, if you ask me.

The very last day of the forecast, Thursday the 20th, shows a bit of promise with a longer period swell arriving at 12 seconds, but it’s still small at 2ft. The morning is clean with a light cross-offshore, so it might be worth a paddle for the novelty of a bit of groundswell, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

So, bottom line: the best bet is the clean, glassy morning on the 9th. Everything else is either too small, too messy, or just plain average. It’s a tough stretch, but that’s the nature of it sometimes.

Rusty.

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