Calita Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty.

Look, I’ll be straight with you—this outlook for the next 16 days is about as flat as a pancake. There’s a big gap of nothing happening from now right through until Monday the 14th of September. For over a week, we’re looking at tiny, weak dribble. The only break on offer is Calita, a reef setup that’s inconsistent at the best of times, and the combined wave energy sits at zero or just single digits, barely registering a whisper (0 to 29). The water temp is running 81°, which is much warmer than normal for this time of year, a real standout oddity, but it doesn’t help the surf.

The first stretch is dead. Sunday the 30th of August through to Sunday the 13th of September, every session is tagged as “poor surf conditions” with waves mostly under 2ft and periods short—4 to 6 seconds. That’s windswell junk. Winds are light and often cross or glassy, so it’d be clean, but there’s simply no energy to work with. The best you’ll see in that first week is a few 2ft pulses on a couple of mornings, but with combined energy still negligible (14 to 28). Not worth paddling out.

Now, on Monday the 14th of September things finally change. The morning shows a pulse of 3ft from the east with a 6-second period, and the combined energy jumps to 69. It’s the only session in the whole run that gets a score high enough to be called “surfable waves”—still ordinary, but it’s something. The wind is glassy from the WSW, so the surface will be clean. This is your one chance. Swell direction is east, which is close to the optimum ESE for this reef. It’s a small wave, perfect for beginners, but the spot is inconsistent so don’t count on it delivering every set. Crowds are only possible there.

After that, the afternoon of the 14th goes onshore and messy again, and the rest of the run peters out.

Overall, this is a brutal stretch. The area just isn’t producing. If you’re desperate, Monday morning the 14th is the only window—but keep expectations real low.

Rusty.

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