Anse Gaulette Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's on offer for our patch.

Honestly, looking at the 16-day window, it's a pretty grim run for Anse Gaulette. There's nothing here worth paddling out for right now. The whole forecast period is a write-off, with every single session tagged with poor surf conditions. It's rare to see a blank run of this length, but it does happen here. The setup is just not cooperating.

The water's a bit warmer than usual for this time of year, sitting at 81° with a positive anomaly of 3°, so you won't need a thick suit, but that's about the only positive.

We start off on Thursday the 13th and Friday the 14th with a moderate SSE swell around 5 to 6 ft, but the wind is a messy cross or cross-onshore breeze at 12 to 16 mph, just chopping everything up. The swell energy is moderate (between 619 and 1080), but it doesn't matter with that wind.

The whole first week is just more of the same. By Sunday the 16th, the wind picks up to a fresh 22 mph cross-onshore, making it lumpy and horrible even though the swell bumps up to 7 ft. Later that day a very long-period 21-second swell rolls in, but it's buried under that same nasty onshore wind. That long-period groundswell would be a dream for the points and reefs, but not with the wind blowing straight into it.

Things don't let up. From the 17th through to the 28th of August, it's a relentless onslaught of fresh cross-onshore winds from the SE, mostly at 19 to 22 mph. Swell heights fluctuate between 3 ft and 8 ft, but the quality is consistently terrible. The combined swell energy often hits strong levels – like 1436 on the 17th or 1070 on the 25th – but that raw power is useless when the surface is that blown out.

This setup over a reef break with these winds looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing. There is simply no standout, no window of clean conditions. The only recommendation is to keep the board in the car and wait for a better forecast.

Rusty.

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