Noosa - Boiling Pot Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get stuck into it.

The Boiling Pot is the spot we’ve got eyes on for this whole run, but honestly, it’s going to be a frustrating week or so before we see anything that gets the heart rate up. The stats for the first few days are pretty flat and ordinary. We’ve got some small, short-period swell in the water, and while Wednesday morning starts off with a clean 3ft of east-northeast swell with light offshore winds, the energy is weak – only 118 on the dial – and it’s just not going to offer much push. It’s surfable, but you’d be scratching around for a wave. The water off Noosa is sitting at 68° which is a touch colder than the long-term average for this time of year, so it’s not a big deal, but it’s noticeable.

Wednesday afternoon picks up a tiny bit to a glassy 3ft, but it’s still that weak, short-period stuff. The Boiling Pot, which is an inconsistent spot at the best of times, will be breaking only on the better sets. It’s a point break, and it likes a bit of groundswell, but with periods around 7-8 seconds, it’s just too fat and gutless to be worth a paddle. The wind will be glassy in the early afternoon, which is a huge positive for the surface, but there’s just no wave to ride.

Then Thursday gets a bit of a kick-up in the wind, with a solid cross-off breeze hitting 16 mph. That’s going to keep the surface clean, but the swell drops off a bit to 2-3ft and the energy is still in the weak to moderate range – hitting 150 in the afternoon which is the best of the day, but it’s all short-period and not doing much. This is a couple of days where you're better off checking the tide, having a coffee, and just watching the ocean.

Friday sees the wind ease off to a gentle offshore breeze and the swell backs up to a clean 3ft in the morning, but again, the period is still short. It's clean and ridable but that’s about it. Saturday has a similar story – a clean 3ft with ESE winds – before a bit of a southerly change pushes through in the afternoon with some light rain, and the swell suddenly drops out. That little pulse fades fast.

Now, here’s where we get to the one real standout of the first week. Sunday the 30th sees a sudden jump in the swell as a low-pressure system pushes up some energy from the south-east. We’re looking at a much bigger 6ft in the morning, but the catch is that the period has dropped to a weak 6 seconds, and the wind is howling at 19 mph, cross-off. The combined energy is a really solid 289, but it’s going to be messy, bumpy, and almost definitely too messy for the Boiling Pot to handle. The wind is just going to tear the face off it. This is a day for sitting on the beach and watching the ocean show off, not for paddling out. At this size, it's on the edge of being too much for a beginner, and with that period, it’s only going to be for the experienced who know the Boiling Pot’s currents.

Monday the 31st is a little calmer. The swell drops to a more manageable 4ft from the southeast, but the energy is still strong – hitting 247 – and the wind is a moderate cross-off. This is the one decent session of this entire run in the first week. The conditions will be cleaner than Sunday, and there should be some push behind those waves even though the period is still on the shorter side. This is the morning to get out there before it fades out into a tiny 1ft bump by the afternoon.

After that, we look out over the horizon and it’s grim, folks. The first week of September just fades away into tiny, weak drivel. We’ve got a few days with 3ft and glassy conditions on the 2nd, but it’s from a very average easterly windswell, and the Boiling Pot will be fat and crumbly. The 3rd and 4th are blown out and messy with onshore breezes. The energy numbers drop back into the double digits – that’s weak stuff, like a lake. There's a gap from the 3rd all the way through to the 9th where there aren't any recommendations at all. The swell just isn't reaching us, and the periods are all under 10 seconds. It's a dead, flat run and it looks like it’s going to stay that way for over a week.

A little pulse shows up around the 9th and 10th, but those swells are coming from the north-northeast with periods of just 5 seconds and very little energy. It might be a bit of windswell, but it’s not going to do anything at a point break like the Pot.

So, in a nutshell: the pick of the entire dump is Monday the 31st, first thing. Cleaner, more powerful, and while it’s not huge, it’s got the most push behind it. That’s the morning to try and grab a couple. Everything else in this 16 days needs a lot of desire and a shortboard you don't care about. The Boiling Pot is inconsistent at the best of times, and with this run of flatness, it’s going to be a frustrating stretch of empty line-ups. It tends not to stay like this for long though so keep the faith.

Rusty

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