Fox Hill Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Look, I’ve been staring at the charts for Fox Hill Point, and I won’t sugarcoat it – this is a tough run. We’re looking at a 16-day forecast and, honestly, the surf just isn’t showing up for a proper paddle session. It’s a lean stretch, and we’ll be waiting a good ten days before anything even remotely rideable pops up.

Right from the get-go, starting Monday the 17th of August, it’s all tiny and weak. We’re talking waist-high at best, but the energy is absolutely pathetic. The combined swell energy is sitting in the low double digits (34), which is basically a lake. The swell direction is from the SSE, but that’s not the optimum for Fox Hill Point (which wants SE). Winds are all over the place, mostly light cross-shore, but the wave quality is firmly “poor.” The water temp is 68°, which is about 1° above the long-term average, so pretty normal for this time of year. That whole first week is a write-off – same story with tiny, weak swells and onshore or cross-onshore winds chopping everything up.

We hit a little patch of hope around the 27th of August. The combined swell energy jumps up to a moderate 195, and the swell height starts to push a bit. Thursday morning the 27th has a small 2ft SSE swell, but the real interest is that Thursday afternoon – still a bit messy with a 4ft south-easterly swell, period of 6 seconds, so it’ll be a bit lumpy and short-period. The wind goes light cross-offshore, so the surface might actually be clean. The problem is the scores are still rubbish – it’s surfable, but just ordinary. This is the closest we get to anything, and it’s barely worth the drive.

Then from Friday the 28th of August, it all turns to dog food again. The swell bumps up to 5ft on the Friday morning, which is the biggest we’ll see, but the wind is a solid cross-onshore from the northeast at 12 mph, creating a choppy, messy mess. The combined energy climbs to 296, but with that wind, it’s unsurfable as a wave – more of a kite-surfing setup than a paddle board. That energy then drops off a cliff, and from the 29th of August through to the 1st of September, we’re back to tiny, weak, onshore slop with combined swell energy dropping into the 20s and 30s. Nothing worth a second look.

So, bottom line: there are no true standouts here. The only faint pulse of life is on Thursday the 27th of August, and even that is a 1 out of 10. For the rest of the 16 days, you’re better off fixing a ding or taking the dog for a walk. The blank run is long, but that’s just how it goes sometimes – forecasts can change, so don’t throw your board in the bin just yet. For now, I’d be looking for other hobbies for a couple of weeks.

Rusty.

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