Cable Bay Surf Break

Cable Bay Surf Photo: 'Long lefts at High Tide' by Rob Davies

Lat Long: 41.16° S 173.42° E

Issued: 5 am 27 Jun 2026 (local time)

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Today's Cable Bay sea temperature is
13.7° C

Slightly warmer than usual

Cable Bay surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

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earlier		 Peak Waves Wind Wind Waves Swell 1 Swell 2 3 hours
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2.2
NNW
10
E
0.9
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2
NNW
0.1
WNW
9 s cross-
off 		6 s 9 s 17 s

Open ocean wave model on 16 June at 3 pm

Forecast wind and swell just offshore from Cable Bay around the time the photo was taken

Image captured 25 minutes after high water (at high ordinary tide). Tide height was 2.7m (8.8 ft). Range 3.82m (12.5 ft). Toggle tide graph

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Cable Bay Surf Photo: 'Long lefts at High Tide' by Rob Davies

Distant view of a surfer coming around the point at Cable Bay taken from the boulder bank. Smaller waves like this one were easier to pick as bigger set waves broke wide.

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User: Rob Davies (1346 photos)
Photo taken at: 3:08 pm 16 Jun 2013
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  • Rob Davies

    Gary, with all respect the main point of this site isn't to show photos of great waves. Plenty of other sources do that already. This is primarily a forecasting site and what Nelson surfers might find interesting is how the surf compared with the forecast at the time. It gives a fair indication of how 2.2m of 9s period NNW swell looked at Cable Bay. Next time similar conditions are forecast we will know roughly what to expect and even this crappy photo is far better than just reporting my opinion of how big or good it was.

  • Gary Sutton

    I have seen better photo's,so why not show them....of cable bay ie.


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