Dreamtime Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Lookin’ at the next couple weeks at Dreamtime, and I gotta say, it’s a bit of a slow burn. We’ve got plenty of small, ordinary surf to start, but there’s a real standout window around the middle of the month that’s got my hopes up. For now, we’re in a waiting game.

The first real action worth paddling for is on Sunday morning, the 9th of August. The wind’s gonna be light and cross-offshore from the north, making the 4 ft waves from the east with a 9 second period clean as a whistle. The combined energy is moderate, sitting at 244, but it’s not gonna blow your mind. Still, for a Sunday morning session, you could do a lot worse. The water temp is around 69°, which is pretty much normal for this time of year.

That little window of clean surf holds through Monday morning, the 10th, with a similar 3 ft east swell. The wind turns offshore from the northwest at 15 mph, keeping it clean, but the energy drops to 120. After that, Tuesday and Wednesday stay small and clean in the mornings, but the swell barely pushes 2 ft to 2 ft – not much to work with.

Now, here’s the real standout: Thursday morning, the 14th of August. A new 4 ft swell from the south rolls in, with a 9 second period, and the wind is completely glassy – dead calm. The combined energy jumps to 607, which is a solid moderate push. This is the best-looking window of the whole forecast. The waves should be clean and offering proper shape. That morning is the one to circle on the calendar.

Friday the 15th keeps things going with a 5 ft swell from the south-southeast, glassy again in the morning (energy 434). But by the afternoon, the wind swings onshore, and things get messy. Saturday the 16th is a write-off with strong cross-shore winds.

After that, the swell builds but the wind stays nasty. From the 17th through the 21st, we see waves from 6 ft all the way up to 10 ft, but the wind is cross-shore or cross-onshore, and the wave period drops to 7-8 seconds for a while. The energy hits four-digit numbers (up to 2757 on the 21st), but the quality is poor. The swell is just too big and messy for Dreamtime, and the wind won’t cooperate. This setup actually looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

The 10 ft swell on the 19th, 20th, and 21st is too big for this break – purely for experts only, and even then, the wind is junk. The 22nd of August sees the swell ease back to 6 ft from the east, with a long 12 second period, but the wind is cross-onshore, so it’s still marginal.

Overall, ride the small, clean windows on the 9th, 10th, and absolutely pin Thursday the 14th for the best session. The rest is a mix of too small, too windy, or too big.

Rusty.

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