Freshwater Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G'day, I'm Rusty. Let's be straight up with you – the next couple of weeks ain't looking flash for a proper paddle at Freshwater Bay. Most of the time, the conditions are just going to be poor for surfing, with messy winds and weak, inconsistent swell. There are no real standout sessions where everything lines up and you'd be calling in sick for work. The energy, when it shows, is mostly in the moderate range, like a combined 178 or 264, but it's never backed up by clean winds.

Friday the 28th of August kicks things off with a weak 3ft swell from the WSW and a moderate cross-shore wind. It's not worth getting wet for. The afternoon jumps to 6ft, but that comes with a strong 25 mph cross-shore, creating a messy cross-chop. Saturday the 29th is worse – onshore wind in the morning and a near-gale cross-onshore in the afternoon blowing out a 10ft south-west swell. That size is getting into the too-big-for-beginners zone, but with that wind, it's a write-off. Sunday is more of the same: lumpy, cross-onshore, and not fun.

We get a small window Monday the 31st of August morning. There's a clean, 7ft swell from the WSW with a fresh cross-offshore breeze. That's the closest thing to a decent wave this week, but the energy is only moderate (394) and the period is a short 7 seconds, so it won't have much punch. After that, it fades fast. Tuesday the 1st of September drops to ankle-slapping 2ft. Wednesday is even smaller. The end of the first week and start of the second is just flat or tiny, with a few light breezes but no swell to speak of. There's a small bump on Thursday the 3rd of September – a 6ft swell in the morning – but it's mushy with a cross-chop.

For the second week, the outlook is grim. From the 6th of September onwards, the swell drops to nearly nothing. A 1.0ft swell on Sunday the 6th, then flat as a tack by the 7th and 8th. There's a little pulse of 4ft on the 12th of September, but it's from a short-period WSW windswell with a strong cross-shore wind, so it will be choppy and ugly. Honestly, for the whole 16-day run, there's nothing I can recommend over another.

If you're a kitesurfer, you might get some fun on Saturday the 29th of August with that strong cross-onshore wind and a 10ft swell. For the rest of us on a paddleboard or a shortboard, it's a long stretch of flat, poor conditions. The water temp at the start is a very unusual 69°, which is much warmer than normal for this time of year, so at least you won't freeze waiting for a wave that doesn't come.

Keep your board in the car, check the forecast next week, because sometimes it changes, but right now, it's a blank run.

Rusty

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