Fox Hill Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s switch it up for the imperial folks. Rusty here, same story.

Right off the bat, I gotta be straight with you – it's a tough stretch ahead. For the next sixteen days, Fox Hill Point is looking at a whole lot of "poor surf conditions" on the cards. That's a big gap of quiet water to work through, so don't be in a rush to wax up.

We start off the run on Sunday the 16th of August. It's small, it's messy. We're talking a tiny 1ft swell from the SE, with a weak combined wave energy (12-13) and onshore or cross-onshore breezes. Not a single wave worth paddling for.

Moving into the start of the week, Monday and Tuesday the 17th and 18th, we see a bit more size, around 3ft, but the period is terrible, only 5 to 8 seconds. That's windswell junk. The energy climbs to a moderate 59-105, but the winds are all wrong – cross or cross-onshore, just chopping everything up. It's still a no-go.

Then we hit what might be the closest thing to a highlight in this whole outlook. On Wednesday the 19th of August, during the morning, we finally get a break. The wind swings to a light WSW offshore at 3 mph. The swell is still small at 2ft from the SE, but the wind cleans it right up. The energy is weak (74), but for a brief moment it'll be clean. That's your best chance for a sneaky session, but you'll be scratching for 2ft waves. After that, it's back to the same old story.

The rest of the run through late August into the first days of September is more of the same. We see a few spikes of energy, like on Saturday the 22nd with 3ft and moderate energy (131), but it's accompanied by a gentle cross-onshore breeze and fairly choppy. There's a real tease on Wednesday the 26th of August in the afternoon, when we get a 1ft swell with a very long 15-second period from the SE, giving a moderate energy boost (137) and clean offshore wind. But don't be fooled – 1ft with that kind of period at a point break like this will be fat, slow, and barely breaking. Not worth getting excited about. After that, the energy stays moderate into the 28th, but the winds aren't cooperating.

Honestly, the only window that has any real potential for a cleaner wave is that Wednesday morning the 19th. Everything else is small, chopped up, or just plain poor. The swell direction throughout is SE or close to it, which is what Fox Hill Point wants to see, but the height just isn't there and the wind is a constant enemy. This is a quiet spell, plain and simple.

Rusty.

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