Condos Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab a coffee and listen up. This is Rusty, and I’ve been staring at the charts for our little stretch of coast. We’re in a bit of a flat spell, so don’t get your hopes up too high.

Right now, and for the next couple of weeks, it’s pretty grim. We’ve got a window that stretches from Wednesday the 12th of August all the way through to Thursday the 27th of August, and honestly, it's one of those runs where you might be better off cleaning your board or fixing a leaky wetsuit. The first real chance for a paddle comes on Wednesday the 12th, but it's a tough sell.

Condos is the only game in town. It’s a beginner-friendly spot that’s fairly consistent, but the story here is all about the wind. From the get-go on Wednesday afternoon, we’ve got a fresh SSE breeze at 18.6 mph smashing across the face. That’s a cross-onshore, and it’s going to make things lumpy and messy. The swell is coming from the SSE at 3 ft with a short period of 5 seconds. The combined energy is weak at just 49. The water temp is a balmy 84° which is about normal for this time of year. Honestly, for paddle surfing, it’s a write-off.

This pattern just keeps repeating. Thursday the 13th and Friday the 14th are more of the same: SE swell around 3.6 ft, but that same cross-onshore wind (15.5-18.6 mph) just chops it all up. The wave energy is weak, staying under 100. Saturday the 15th morning is cross-on again, but the afternoon shows a shift to an onshore wind, which still isn’t good news. The swell remains small and weak. We get a little glimmer on Sunday the 16th morning with a light breeze from the SE at 6.2 mph and the wind turning onshore, but the swell drops to 2.6 ft with only 49 in energy. It’s not going to be worth the paddle out.

The whole first week is a bust. The swell never gets above 3.6 ft, the period is always short (under 8 seconds), and the wind is predominantly onshore or cross-onshore. This is textbook “poor surf conditions” day after day. For a spot like Condos, a beach break, the combination of weak swell and onshore wind makes it look more like a kitesurfing session than a surfing one if you’re desperate for a pull.

As we move into the second week, it gets even smaller. Monday the 17th through to the end of the forecast on Thursday the 27th, we’re looking at swell heights dropping to 1.3 ft with period dropping to 4 seconds. The wave energy numbers are pathetic, falling into the teens and twenties. There is a tiny tease on Monday the 24th morning with a glassy NNW breeze at 3.1 mph. The swell is only 2.3 ft from the SE, but it would be clean. Still, it's just too small to do anything on. Then Tuesday the 25th morning offers a cross-offshore wind from the WSW at 6.2 mph with a 2 ft swell – clean, but again, anemic.

Look, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is one of those stretches where you just have to wait it out. There are no standouts. The best you can hope for is a glassy, tiny ankle-slapper on the 24th morning, but that’s it. It’s a blank run, and for this area, it’s not that unusual when the wind sets in from the south-east.

Keep the board in the bag. This one is a loss.

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