Deveraux Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it. It’s Rusty here, and I’ve been staring at the charts for our stretch of coast. Honestly, it’s a bit of a slow burner. We’ve got a solid 16-day window, but for the first chunk of it, you’re gonna be fighting for scraps. The swell’s basically nonexistent to tiny, and while the winds are sometimes clean, there’s just nothing with any push to get excited about.

For the first week, from the 8th through to the 14th, we’re looking at ankle-biters. Swell heights are pegged at a measly 0.3ft with short-period, weak energy. The combined wave energy is in the low single digits (5-10) – that’s just a lake out there. The only real highlight in that whole stretch is maybe a glassy window on Friday afternoon, the 14th, when the wind goes light and the surface cleans up. But even then, with that 0.3ft of swell and 7-second period, you’d need a longboard and a lot of patience just to get a few knee-high bumps. It’s not really surf, just a nice paddle.

The weekend of the 15th and 16th offers a slight, and I mean slight, uptick. We see the swell nudge up to 0.7ft with a better period of 10-11 seconds on the Saturday morning and Sunday morning. That’s a longer-period groundswell, which is good for shape, but at that size it’s barely a ripple. Saturday morning looks clean with light offshore winds from the N, and Sunday morning is glassy again. The energy is still weak (11). It’s still a ‘take the foamie and don't expect much’ kind of deal.

Then we hit a proper dead spell from Monday the 17th to Tuesday the 22nd. The swell stays tiny, and more often than not, the wind is cross-onshore or onshore, chopping up what little there is. The energy readings bump up into the 20s-40s towards the end of this, but the swell height is still in the 0.3ft to 2ft range. There’s a period from the 19th to the 22nd with some better energy (up to 52) and building swells, but the wind is all over the place. Not worth getting excited about. For Deveraux Beach, a reef setup on a fair day, this is just flat-out poor.

Now, for the one true standout in this entire forecast. It arrives on Sunday the 23rd. This is the day to keep free. We finally see some real energy fill in, with combined swell energy jumping to 134 in the morning and a solid 307 in the afternoon. That’s a huge step up from the weak stuff we’ve seen. The swell builds to 3ft in the morning, jumping to 4ft by the afternoon, with a 9-second period. But the key is the wind: it’s a solid cross-offshore breeze from the WNW, blowing 19 to 25 mph. That’s cleaning up the face perfectly.

This is our best on offer, full stop. Deveraux Beach (our local zone) will see a decent, clean 4ft of ESE swell crashing on the reef. Early morning on the 23rd will have some size and clean conditions. The afternoon, with 4ft and the moderate cross-off breeze, is shaping up to be the pick of the entire forecast. It’s a bit bumpy for beginners at 4ft on a reef, but for anyone with a little experience, it’ll be fun. The water is 68°, which is right around average for the time of year, so a good 3/2 or 4/3 will do you. This looks like the only real chance for some proper waves, so circle the 23rd in your calendar. It’s a long-range call, so don’t book the day off work just yet, but it’s definitely promising.

Rusty

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