Anse Gaulette Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you – this is a tough run of forecasts for Anse Gaulette. The whole 16-day window is basically a write-off for quality surf, with nothing that’d get me paddling out in a hurry.

Right from the start, Saturday 29th August, we’ve got a solid 5ft swell rolling in from the south, period at 17 seconds – that’s proper groundswell with some real energy behind it (combined energy is 2249). But the wind’s a fresh cross-onshore from the SE at 22 mph, and it’s just lumpy, messy, poor conditions. Water temp is 81°F, which is about average for this time of year – no drama there.

From Sunday 30th through the middle of September, it’s the same story. Swell sizes bounce around – Sunday morning has 4ft, Sunday afternoon jumps to 7ft, Monday morning hits 10ft, and it keeps fluctuating between 4ft and 10ft all the way through. That big 10ft is only for experts, but honestly, the wind never lets up. It’s a persistent moderate to fresh cross-on or cross-shore breeze from the SE, always at 15-22 mph, with lumpy, choppy, cross-chop conditions. The wave comments just keep saying “poor” or “marginal” – even the few afternoons with a 1 or 2 out of 10 still look ordinary.

There’s a slight change around Monday 8th September, where the wind drops to a gentle 9 mph from the ESE, and the swell drops to 6ft with a short period of 7 seconds – but it’s still cross-shore and slight cross-chop. It’s a marginal session at best. Then on Wednesday 10th September, we get a brief window of 3ft to 3ft swell from the SSW with a long period of 15-16 seconds, combined energy around 783-817, but again the wind is up at 12-18 mph and cross or cross-on. Not clean, not inviting.

The whole period is a bust – no standouts, no clean glassy mornings, no offshores. Even the consistent swell (fairly consistent, this break) gets ruined by the wind. For a reef break that needs a good S swell direction, the wind is just wrong every time. If you’re a kiter, that cross-shore breeze might be fun, but for a paddle surfer, there’s nothing to get excited about. Move on, folks. This is just one of those blank runs for the area.

Rusty.

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