Cap de la Chevre Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Look, I’ll be straight with you – this 16-day window for Cap de la Chevre is a real tough one. We’ve got a long stretch of nothing but small, weak, and often messy conditions ahead. The whole forecast is a struggle, with almost every day flagged as poor surf. There are no real standouts, but we’ll pick through the scraps to find the moments that are *least* ordinary.

The first few days are a write-off. We’ve got light onshore winds and weak swell from the 30th of July right through to the 5th of August, with wave heights barely scraping 3 ft and combined swell energy stuck in the double digits and low triple digits (max 120). The wind is blowing from the wrong directions, mostly cross-on or onshore, making it lumpy and uninviting. For a point break that needs a clean WSW swell, this is flat and frustrating.

Saturday the 1st of August morning offers a tiny glimmer. The wind goes light cross-off from the NNE, and the sea cleans up. The swell is a pathetic 2 ft from the W with a 10-second period, and combined energy is a weak 75. It’s surfable, but just barely. The water temp is about 65°, which is pretty normal for this time of year, nothing to write home about.

Then we hit another dry spell. From the 2nd of August through to the 12th of August, it’s almost all tiny, weak, and wind-affected junk. There are a few glassy mornings on the 6th and 9th of August, with the wind dropping to nothing, but the swell is a measly 1.0 ft and 0.7 ft – not enough to push a log along. The 7th and 8th of August see some clean cross-off winds, but again, the swell is too small to care about.

The only real flicker of life comes late in the window. On Thursday the 13th of August afternoon, the swell bumps up to 3 ft from the WNW with a 10-second period, and combined energy jumps to 137 – moderate energy, finally. The wind is onshore though, so it’s messy. Then Friday the 14th of August is the best of a bad bunch. The morning has a clean 3 ft WNW swell with light cross-off winds from the SE, and by the afternoon, the wind swings offshore from the ESE, with the swell holding at 3 ft and a period of 10 seconds, combined energy hitting 174. The waves are surfable, and it’s clean, but these are still very ordinary waves. For an expert break like this, it’s a long way from firing.

The bottom line: there are no big days, no groundswell, no proper power. The best you’ll get is a few small, clean crumbly waves on the 14th of August. For a point break like this, you need a decent WSW swell, and we’re just not getting it. The setup looks more interesting for a kite surfer than a paddle surfer for most of this period. Keep an eye on the charts, because it tends not to stay this poor for long.

Rusty.

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