Blue Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let's get real with this forecast for Blue Bay. It's a bit of a rough stretch ahead, so brace yourselves.

The next few days are a total write-off. Tiny, weak swells and onshore winds mean you won't even want to get your board wet. We're just waiting for something to happen.

Then, around the 16th of September, the ocean switches on. A proper-sized, long-period south swell builds in fast, but it's a bit of a monster. The waves will be big, but with a strong south-southwest wind, the bay is going to be messy, lumpy, and hard to ride. We're talking 3-4m of raw, powerful swell. This is only for the experienced rippers out there; the kind of surf that can hold you under. The energy is all there, but the quality is all wrong. You should see the reading on the energy scale, it was way up there, but we're not calling it.

That big pulse eases off a touch over the next couple of days, but it stays big through the 18th, still with a bumpy, onshore wind. There's still plenty of size, but it's going to be tough, challenging conditions.

Then the ocean just backs right off. We get a small window on the 19th with light offshore winds and a clean but tiny 0.6m wave. It's the cleanest it will be all forecast, but you'll be on your shortboard or a fish. The window is short-lived anyway, as the onshore winds return in the afternoon.

The ocean goes quiet again, and we enter a dead patch until the 21st when another big pulse of south swell fills in. We've got another big, powerful swell, 4.0m, but it's coming with a cross-shore wind, which will make it choppy and hard to manage. After that, it’s pretty weak and tiny again.

So, there's a clear winner here: the 19th. It's going to be tiny on Saturday the 19th, but it will be your only shot at a clean, glassy wave. The rest of the period is either too big and messy or too small to care. We get a couple of "ordinary" days around the 24th, but nothing to get excited about.

All in all, this is a forgettable forecast. We're looking at some big, angry swells followed by nothing. For the novice surfer, those big swells are a definite no-go. It’s days like this that you check the horizon constantly, hoping for a shift in the wind. But for now, it's gonna be a frustrating time in the water.

Keep your head up, and let's hope for better conditions soon.

Rusty, signing off.

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