Bay Street Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Morning, surfers. Rusty here. Let’s get straight to it.

Honestly, the next couple of weeks are looking pretty flat and grumpy for us here at Bay Street. The ocean’s just not showing much interest. We've got a run from now through the end of the month that's basically a write-off—tiny waves, mostly onshore or cross-onshore breezes, and nothing with any punch. There are solid chunks of days, like the whole of the 31st and 1st of September, where you’d be better off doing anything else. This isn't a quick dip, either; we're looking at a stretch of nearly a week and a half with nothing worth paddling out for.

The first real hint of life shows up on the morning of Sunday the 6th of September. The swell is still pretty small, only about 3ft, but that's the first time we get a proper offshore wind from the ENE. It'll be glassy and clean; you might get a few fun little runners on the inside, but you'll be working for them. The swell direction is SSW, which is fine for the spot, but it lacks the size to get the bank properly firing.

After that tease, it gets messy again before a bump in size arrives mid-week. The morning of Tuesday the 8th sees the swell jump to 5ft also from the SSW, but the wind is a cross-onshore mess and the period drops to a junky 13 seconds. Expect it to be lumpy. The energy’s there in the water, but the quality just isn't. It’s all a bit of a scrappy, blown-out affair.

The good news is that things tidy up towards the end of the week. The morning of Friday the 11th of September has a bit of that long-period groundswell moving in, with 3ft from the SW at 17 seconds. It’s not big, but that long period means the waves that do come through will have some push and shape to them. The wind is light and cross-onshore, so there might be a couple of workable, walled-up waves, but it's still a bank-break, and with that long period, it might be a bit walled. You’d want to be on it early.

To be honest, this whole window boils down to just two sessions that are worth getting excited about: the clean morning on the 6th, and the more powerful, longer-period morning on the 11th. Everything else is either flat, lumpy, or just plain uninviting. It’s one of those quiet spells where patience is your best board. Fingers crossed for a change, but for now, that’s the reality.

Keep an eye on the charts, and let’s hope the ocean wakes up.

Rusty.

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