Dolphinarium Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at the Dolphinarium stretch.

Honestly, this is a tough one. The whole 16-day window is a real struggle. We’ve got a persistent run of very small, weak, short-period windswell that’s barely pushing above 3 ft at its best. The combined wave energy is mostly a weak two-digit number, never getting past a moderate 104 for a single afternoon session. The wind is a constant problem too – we see a lot of cross-onshore and onshore flow, which is going to keep things messy. The water temperature is sitting at 85°F which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year.

The only real window offering anything that’s even surfable is the morning of Sunday, August 9th. The swell is a tiny 3 ft at 7 seconds from the WNW, and the combined energy is a weak 59, but the wind is a light cross-offshore breeze from the SW. That’s clean. The morning of Friday, August 15th, is also clean with a light cross-off from the SW and a similar 3 ft swell, but it’s still just on the edge of being worth a paddle. The last glimmer is on the morning of Monday, August 17th, with a clean 3 ft swell and a combined energy of 70.

The best bet of the whole period is the morning of Sunday, August 9th. It’s clean, the swell is as big as it gets for a while, and it’s consistent enough. The crowd factor is “sometimes” here, so you might have a few others with the same idea. For a beginner-friendly spot, this tiny, clean, weak swell is about as good as it’s going to get.

There are huge gaps. From the afternoon of August 9th all the way through to the end of the forecast, there are no days with a “surfable” morning session. The afternoon sessions are all a write-off due to the wind.

The long range, like the morning of Wednesday, August 19th, shows a clean 3 ft swell from the NW, but with a combined energy of only 91, it’s still weak. That’s a promising but less certain call.

Rusty.

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