Haubush Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s keep it real—this forecast is a grind. Haubush is the only break on the map, a reef that’s fully exposed, but it’s staring down a couple of weeks of messy, cross-onshore winds and lumpy surf. The water’s a normal 81° for this time of year, so nothing unusual there. It’s mostly a waiting game for a decent window.

The first few days are a total loss. Monday the 7th starts with thunderstorm risk and a 30 km/h cross-onshore breeze shoving around a 7ft easterly swell with the energy reading 2472—moderate to strong, but chopped up. The afternoon gets worse: 8ft of southwest swell, 40 km/h winds, and the energy spikes to 5026. It’s powerful, but it’s a blown-out mess. Tuesday the 8th is no better—cross-onshore wind and lumpy waves, 8ft in the morning, 7ft in the afternoon. You’d be fighting a losing battle.

Finally, Wednesday the 9th gives us a breather. The swell drops to 3ft from the SSW with a long 14-second period, and the wind eases to 10 km/h onshore in the morning. It’s still only marginal—the energy is weak at 500—but it’s the first window where the reef might hold a clean-ish wave. The afternoon stays small and weedy, rain showers moving through. Not great, but it’s your first real chance to get wet without getting thrashed.

Thursday the 10th, the wind goes cross-shore and picks up, and the swell is all over the place—5ft from the ENE in the morning, dropping to 2ft in the afternoon. The period is all over the shop, 7 seconds in the morning (short and junky), then 18 seconds in the afternoon, but there’s no size behind it. Friday the 11th is more of the same: small, cross-shore, marginal. The morning has 2ft at 16 seconds, and the afternoon gets a touch better with 4ft from the ENE at 11 seconds, but the energy is still weak. A paddle, not a session.

Saturday the 12th and Sunday the 13th are pretty poor again. Small surf, short period, cross-shore winds, and the energy readings dropping into the low hundreds. You’re looking at ankle-biters and chop. Not worth the drive.

Now, here’s the one bright spot. Monday the 14th afternoon. The wind goes glassy—absolutely dead calm, 5 km/h from the south—and while the swell is only 2ft, the period is a huge 22 seconds. That’s very long period groundswell, and the energy is still weak at 385, but on a reef like Haubush, that kind of pulse can turn into clean, lined-up walls when the tide’s right. This is the standout for the whole forecast, but it’s a small one. You’ll want a high-performance board, not a log.

Tuesday the 15th stays in the same family—3ft at 20 seconds in the morning, 3ft at 19 seconds in the afternoon—but the wind starts to freshen from the east again, so it’s a step down in quality. Still cleaner than what we’ve had for a week. After that, we slide back into a long stretch of onshore and cross-shore breezes. By Friday the 18th, we’ve got 4ft of SSW swell at 18 seconds, but the wind is screaming at 40 km/h from the ENE, and the energy is 1146—a full-on windy mess. That’s more for the kite crew than the paddle crew.

The rest of the second week, right through to the 22nd, is a write-off—fresh to strong cross-shore winds, small to mediocre surf, everything blown out. The long-period energy is there in the background, but without clean wind, it’s useless. This reef needs the wind to cooperate, and it just doesn’t look like it will for more than a few hours at a time.

So, bottom line: the only real window worth chasing is Monday afternoon the 14th, when it goes glassy and that long-period SW swell shows up. It’s small, but it’s clean. Everything else is a battle with the chop and the cross-breeze.

Rusty.

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