Elliott Heads Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a straight-up look at what's on offer for Elliott Heads over the next couple of weeks. I'm not gonna lie to you, it's a tough stretch ahead.

Right from the get-go, we've got a real flat spell. The first bit of swell that shows up from Friday the 3rd is just a tiny 2ft from the ENE with a short, weak 8-second period, and the combined energy is barely a whisper at 46. The wind’s glassy on Friday morning, which is a tease, but the swell is just too weak to do anything with. It's poor surf conditions, plain and simple. This weak, onshore pattern just keeps rolling through the weekend and into the start of the next week.

We get a bit of a bump in size around Monday the 6th with the swell climbing to 5ft, but the period is still a pathetic 5 seconds. That's just wind slop. The combined energy hits 195, which is moderate, but with a fresh SE cross-onshore wind at 19 mph, it’s going to be a lumpy, choppy mess. That’s not surf, that’s a washing machine. The setup at Elliott Heads, a reef break that’s inconsistent and exposed to ENE, just isn’t going to handle these onshore winds well at all.

Honestly, there's nothing here worth paddling out for. This whole 16-day window is a write-off. The swell either vanishes entirely or gets ruined by those persistent onshore winds from the south and southeast. The water temp is about average for the time of year, but that doesn't help the lack of waves. When the swell finally does drop to nothing by the second week, we get some clean, offshore breezes from the SW, but there's no swell to clean up. A 0.3ft wave with a 10-second period is just a ripple. There is no standout, not even a single day I’d recommend. It’s a blank run, and for an area like this, that’s not unusual.

Keep the board in the car, but maybe don't take it out. The forecasts can always change.

Rusty.

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