Haubush Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, surfers, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what Haubush has on offer over the next couple of weeks.

The opening stanza is pretty bleak, to be honest. We’ve got a blustery Tuesday with onshore winds and a lumpy 8.2ft of wind swell that’s just not going to be any fun. That surf energy is up there at 2272, but the quality is zip. You’d be battling a fresh cross-onshore for a mess of waves. That’s a clear miss.

The next day, Wednesday the 9th, things back off way down to 3ft of long-period groundswell from the SSW. It’s glassy at times, but the swell energy has dropped to 500 and the period is a long 14 seconds, which can make it a bit walled. It’s marginal at best.

We then drift into a long, slow patch. From Thursday the 10th through to Sunday the 13th, the swell stays small and the cross-shore winds chop it up. It’s a few days of not much worth paddling out for. Even though the period looks good on paper, the size and the wind just aren’t cooperating.

There is a moment on Monday afternoon, the 14th, when the wind drops to glass and a long-period 22-second SSW groundswell pushes in at 1.6ft. The energy reading is 346, which is pretty weak, but that combo of glassy conditions and a long-period swell on a reef could clean up the lines. It’s a quiet, clean little window for a log, not much more.

Tuesday the 15th sees the breeze get up again, and we’re back to junk. The next few days are a struggle. A new pulse of short-period ENE swell shows up on Friday the 18th, but the period is only 8 seconds, which is junky. It’s still poor and messy.

Then, we get to our one true standout. Saturday the 19th of September. The morning is still a bit iffy with a light onshore, but by the afternoon, the wind dies completely and it goes glassy. We’ve got a 3.6ft SSW groundswell with a solid 16-second period, and the surf energy is sitting at 746. The direction from the SSW is right in the optimum for this exposed reef break. The water temp is about average for this time of year, so no worries there. This is the session to circle. Light winds, clean lines, and a pulse of energy. It’s small, but it will be fun and clean. It’s not a beast, but it’s the best we’re going to see.

After that, the lights go out again. The final stretch from the 20th onwards is a wasteland of small, weak swell and fresh cross-shore winds that get lumpy. The energy readings drop right off, and it’s not worth getting wet. That’s the long and short of it. Get that Saturday arvo tide right and you might get a couple of clean ones.

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