Haubush Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, I’m Rusty. Let’s get straight into it.

Well, I’ve had a good look at what’s on the cards for the next 16 days, and I’m not gonna sugar-coat it – it’s pretty grim out there. We’re looking at a long stretch of poor conditions, and I can’t pick a single standout session worth paddling out for. The whole window is a write-off for decent waves.

We kick off on Saturday the 4th of July and honestly, it’s all downhill from there. For the first nine days straight, every surf report is labelled “poor surf conditions.” There’s not a single session that scores enough to even be a second thought. The wind is stuck in a cross-shore pattern, mostly from the ENE, blowing at 18 to 22 mph, which is a fresh breeze that’s just going to leave everything lumpy and cross-chop. That’s with combined swell energy readings between 290 and 905 – that’s moderate energy, but it’s completely wasted.

For the first few days, swell height is small – around 2 ft to 3 ft – coming from the S or SSW with very long periods around 18 to 21 seconds. That’s a proper groundswell, but with that messy wind it’ll be a bumpy, unrideable mess. By Monday the 6th, the period drops into the 15 to 16 second range, still long, still no good with that cross-shore breeze.

Around Tuesday the 7th into Wednesday the 8th, we get a brief bump in swell height, with 5 ft to 6 ft from the ENE, but the period crashes to just 7 to 8 seconds – that’s a short, weak windswell. The energy drops into the 300s, and the wind is still a fresh cross-shore. So again, just poor surf.

Even by Sunday the 12th, we see a marginal session pop up – you know, where a guy might think “maybe it’s okay” – with 3 ft from the SSW at 16 seconds. But even then, the wind is a moderate cross-shore, and the report says “marginal surf forecast or questionable tide conditions.” That’s about as good as it gets, and it’s still not worth driving for.

Through the second week, nothing changes. The wind does ease a little to 12 to 16 mph on Monday the 13th, but the swell stays tiny, and the wind direction is still cross or even cross-onshore by Tuesday the 14th. We get another brief pulse of short-period ENE swell on the 17th and 18th, around 4 ft to 5 ft, but again, with 7 to 8 second periods and 18 to 22 mph cross-shore winds, it’s just lumpy, choppy, and poor. The last session on the 19th shows 2 ft from the S at 15 seconds, but the same fresh cross-shore wind ruins it.

The water temperature is about average for the time of year, nothing weird going on there.

So honestly, this is one of those blanks that’s just normal for the area when the patterns lock in like this. It tends not to stay this poor forever, but for these 16 days, I’d save your energy, take a long walk, or maybe just tune in next week – forecasts can and do change. There’s nothing here worth paddling for.

Rusty.

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