Batts Rock Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Look, I’ve gotta be straight with you – over the next 16 days, Batts Rock is basically flat. There’s nothing doing, and when I say nothing, I mean zero surf on offer from now all the way through to the morning of Monday the 3rd of August. That’s a full week and a bit of no waves. The water temperature is sitting at 82.8°, which is pretty much bang on average for this time of year, so at least a dip in the ocean is comfortable.

From the morning of Monday the 3rd of August, a tiny little pulse of northerly swell starts to show – we’re talking just 0.3 ft of swell with a period around 11 seconds and combined wave energy of only 2 (weak). It’s hopelessly small. The wind’s offshore from the east and east-northeast the whole time, and it’s often a fresh breeze, so it’d be clean, but there’s just no wave to ride. The swell direction from the north doesn’t match the optimum N direction Batts Rock wants for a proper set-up, but honestly, that’s irrelevant when the swell is this tiny.

On Friday the 7th of August morning, there’s a slight bump with 0.7 ft from the north and period around 10 seconds, energy rising to 11 (still weak). It’s still not enough to make a wave worth paddling for. In fact, every single day in this entire outlook is marked as "poor surf conditions." There’s a couple of days around the 9th of August where a 16-second period shows up, but it’s only 0.3 ft and energy of 5 – that long period would be better suited to a point break or reef, not a beach, but again, there’s no height to work with.

Batts Rock is inconsistent at the best of times, and this stretch of no-good swell is just one of those quiet runs the area gets. It doesn’t tend to stay poor for long, so keep an eye on the charts.

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