Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you: the next couple of weeks are a real test of patience. We’ve got a long, flat, and mostly messy stretch ahead, but there’s a tiny light at the end of the tunnel if you’re willing to wait it out.

The first real chance of anything even remotely surfable doesn’t show up until Saturday the 12th, and even then, it’s marginal at best. Before that, we’re looking at a full week of nothing but small, weak, and chopped-up surf. The south-west swells are there, but they’re tiny, and the cross-shore winds are going to ruin any chance of a clean wave. It’s a proper blank run, to be honest.

The first sliver of hope comes on Saturday the 12th, but it’s a one-out-of-ten kind of morning. There might be a wave at Gold Beach/South Park/Hunter Creek, but it’s going to be a bumpy, walled-up mess. Not worth getting out of bed for, unless you just need to get wet.

The following week stays pretty grim. We see a slight increase in period, which is nice, but the size just isn’t there. The wind stays crossed up, and it’s all just a bit of a chore. There’s a brief moment on Thursday the 17th morning where it goes glassy, but the swell is only 2ft. It’s surfable, but barely.

Now, here’s the standout, and it’s a long way off. On the morning of Friday the 18th, we finally get a bit of everything coming together. The wind goes glassy, the period stretches out to 20 seconds, and the energy starts to build (301). It’s still small, around 2ft, but it’s clean and has some proper push. This is the pick of the entire run, but it’s still only a two-out-of-ten. It’s promising, but it’s a week and a half away, so don’t book the time off just yet.

The good news? The energy is on the rise after that. By Sunday the 20th afternoon, a proper pulse of north-west swell arrives, jumping to 7ft. But the wind is a fresh cross-shore, making it a lumpy, messy affair. That one’s for the experts only, and even then, it might be more of a kite-surfing day than a paddling one.

The following Monday the 21st keeps that size around 6-6ft, but the wind is howling at 18-25 mph. It’s not going to be pretty. It isn't until Tuesday the 22nd that things settle down a touch, with size dropping back to around 4ft and a gentler breeze, but the quality is still marginal.

So, there you have it. A long, flat, and windy fortnight with one small, glassy window on the 18th that might just give you a couple of clean ones. Keep an eye on the charts, because a run this bad can’t last forever.

Rusty.

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