Anse Gaulette Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Gotta be straight with you – the next 16 days are looking pretty bleak for a paddle. Let's get into it.

The overall pattern is dominated by a persistent SE wind that just won't quit. For the first week and a half, pretty much every session is tagged with "poor surf conditions" and a cross-onshore wind that's going to leave the surface lumpy and chopped up. We're looking at a solid 10-day stretch here where the wind is ruining what could otherwise be a decent run of swell.

Let's start with the first reading on Tuesday, 28 July at Anse Gaulette. The water is sitting at 81°F, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year. We've got a 7ft swell coming from the SE with a short period of 7 seconds. The combined energy is moderate at 597, but that's all academic because the wind is a fresh 22 mph cross-shore, leaving a lumpy cross-chop. It's not good.

That same story repeats all the way through to Sunday, 2 August. The swell drops to a tiny 2ft on the morning of the 2nd, but even then, the wind is still a moderate cross-onshore. The period jumps to 18 seconds that morning, which is a very long period groundswell, but with almost no size and a cross-onshore breeze, it's a non-starter.

The pattern continues right through the second week. The swell picks up again, and by Thursday, 6 August, we're seeing an 8ft SE swell with a 10-second period and strong combined energy of 1345. The wind is still a fresh cross-shore, but the surf report even calls it "marginal" at best, and it's still lumpy. That's the closest we get to a window, but it's just not clean enough to recommend.

Towards the end of the run, on Tuesday, 11 August, the swell jumps to a solid 10ft with a 10-second period and very strong energy of 1796. That's a lot of water, but it's over 8ft, so it's for experts only. And with the wind still howling cross-onshore at 22 mph, it's going to be a messy, washing-machine kind of day. Not the kind of conditions you want to be fighting.

Honestly, with this much swell and persistent wind, and Anse Gaulette being a reef break, it's not going to be clean for a paddle. If you're into kite surfing, the strong cross-shore and cross-onshore winds with that much energy might be your thing. For us surfers, it's a write-off.

There’s just nothing here that stands out as a good option. The wind is the enemy the whole way through, and the few times the swell has potential, the conditions are just too rough.
Rusty.

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