Coffee Bay Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s look at what’s cookin’ at Coffee Bay Point. The next couple weeks are a real mixed bag, with plenty of days where the wind’s just wrong or the swell’s a mess. There’s a long stretch of flat or blown-out days, but the end of the run has a proper gem if you can wait.

We start Saturday, the 8th of August, with a 4ft SSW groundswell, but it’s got a cross-onshore NNE breeze at 9 mph, so it’s a bit choppy. The combined energy is moderate at 686. The afternoon cleans up with a cross-offshore SSW wind at 16 mph, but the swell drops to 3ft. Clean, but small. Sunday the 9th is similar in the morning, clean but small at 3ft. By Sunday afternoon, the wind jumps to 28 mph from the SW, and the swell is a messy 8ft with a short period of 6 seconds – that’s a no-go. Monday the 10th keeps the rain and an 8ft S swell in the morning, still too big and messy. Monday afternoon sees a 6ft SSW swell with a moderate 9-second period, and the energy is solid at 1063, but it’s still labelled marginal.

Then we hit a serious dry spell. From Tuesday the 11th through to Friday the 21st of August, the conditions are poor. Persistent cross-onshore winds from the NE or ENE, and the swell is either short-period, too big, or blown out. The water temp is about average for this time of year. The energy drops, and the scores are flat zero for most of these days. It’s a long, frustrating gap of about ten days.

Things start to look up on Saturday the 22nd of August. The morning has a 5ft ENE swell with a light cross-offshore SW breeze at 6 mph, and the energy is moderate at 581. It’s clean. The afternoon gets interesting: a 10ft SSW swell with a 9-second period, and the wind is a light 3 mph from the south, almost cross-shore. The combined energy jumps to 1777, which is strong. It’s a bit big for beginners, but for confident intermediates, that’s a proper session.

The standout, though, is Sunday the 23rd of August. This is the one. The morning is glassy – absolute glass, with a light variable breeze from the ESE at 3 mph. The swell is a clean 8ft from the SSW with a period of 10 seconds, giving a strong combined energy of 1530. The forecast says “excellent surf conditions for experienced surfers.” With that offshore wind and a solid groundswell, Coffee Bay Point is going to be a gem. The swell direction is from the SSW, and the optimum here is SSE, so it’s not a perfect match, but it’s close enough that the point should handle it well. Crowds are sometimes an issue here, so you might have company, but with that quality, it’s worth it. This is the best on offer in the whole 16-day window.

Rusty

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