Dar Bouazza (La Bobine) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s talk about what’s on the menu for Dar Bouazza (La Bobine) over the next couple of weeks. I’ll be straight with you: it’s a slow start and we’re waiting a fair while for anything that really gets the heart pumping. There’s a long stretch of flat to poor conditions through the first week, so hold your horses.

For the first week, the size is tiny and the winds are messy. A cross-onshore gutless breeze is blowing most days, and the swell is weak, with that combined energy struggling to break past a thousand. We’re talking combined swell energy numbers that are all in the double digits or just scraping into the low hundreds for the first five days. The water temp is sitting at 72°, which is pretty normal for this time of year, nothing unusual.

Honestly, the best early look we get is on Monday the 14th. Monday morning is looking absolute glass. The wind drops to nothing onshore, it’s nearly flat calm, and the swell from the north-west is wrapping in at 2ft, but with an 11-second period. That’s a proper little groundswell pulse. Combined swell energy is sitting at 203, which is solid for that size. That’s the one bright spark in a pretty bleak outlook. But even then, the afternoon on the same day gets chopped up by a nor’wester.

The rest of that second week is a mix of small and ordinary. Tuesday the 15th has a little cross-shore wind with a knee-high bump, nothing to write home about. We get a morning of glass again on Friday the 18th, but the swell is down to 2ft and the energy is weak (96), meaning it’s probably a flat ocean with a breath on it. Saturday the 19th is a complete write-off – tiny and onshore.

Then, right at the back end, Sunday the 20th has a surprise. There’s a glassy morning, almost no wind, with a 3ft swell from the north-northwest. The period is short at 6 seconds, so it’s a bit of a windswell, and the combined energy is moderate at 112. It’s surfable but very ordinary. Not a standout.

So, here’s the bottom line: if you can get out on Monday the 14th in the early light, that’s your only real chance for some clean, lined-up little nuggets on the point. Everything else is either too small, too choppy, or just plain flat. There’s a big gap from now until that Monday, so don’t bother waxing up before then. After that, it’s another wait-and-see.

Remember, the best wave of the whole run is that Monday the 14th session: glassy, 2ft groundswell from the north-west, and the energy is there to let the point do its job. Don’t sleep on it.

Rusty.

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