Bethune Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with each other – the next couple of weeks are looking pretty bleak for surf. We’ve got a long stretch of small, junky waves on the horizon, so if you were hoping for a proper session, you might want to look elsewhere for a while.

The first real glimpse of anything rideable doesn’t pop up until Thursday the 3rd, and even then it’s a toss-up. The swell bumps up slightly to a foot or so from the ESE with a period of 9 seconds, giving us a combined energy reading of 140 – that’s weak to moderate, not the kind of juice that gets the heart going. The wind is light and blowing offshore, so it will be clean, and I see a “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions” note on it. It’s a wave you *could* paddle out for, but you won’t be bragging about it. This is the only real option on the board for a while, so if you’re jonesing for a paddle, that’s your window.

From there, it’s a whole lot of nothing. Friday the 4th drops back down to under 2 feet, and the energy just fizzles out. We’re looking at a solid stretch of days with barely a ripple – the energy readings are mostly in the teens and twenties, which is extremely weak. You’ll see some clean, glassy conditions on Saturday the 5th morning and again on the 12th, but there’s just no swell to push through. It’s flat, mate. Proper flat.

The swell tries to pick up around Tuesday the 8th, but it’s a junky, short-period windswell from the NE with a period of only 6 seconds. At around 4 feet it’s got some size, but the period is way too short to be any good – it’ll be a lumpy, closed-out mess. The energy reading is around 116, which is moderate, but it’s the wrong kind of energy. To make it worse, the wind is onshore at 20 km/h, so it’s going to be chopped up and pretty ordinary. Not one for the surfer, unless you’re into getting worked.

After that, it’s back to the small stuff for the rest of the period. There’s no standout day, no pulse of groundswell, nothing that’s going to make the drive worthwhile. We’re basically looking at two weeks of knee-to-waist-high slop at best, with the only brief clean windows happening when there is absolutely no swell at all.

The water temp is running about average for this time of year around Bethune Beach, so no surprises there. It’s just a waiting game now, hoping a proper swell shows up after this run of flatness. For now, the board stays in the car and the fins stay dry.

Rusty.

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