Haubush Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Look, I’ve gotta be straight with you – this 16-day stretch for the Haubush area is a real heartbreaker. There’s barely a whisper of rideable surf, and the wind is just relentless. We’re talking a solid wall of cross-shore breeze that’s making a mess of everything. The water is sitting at 80°F which is pretty much bang on average for this time of year, so no complaints there, but you won’t be in the water long enough to enjoy it.

The first proper chance I can even squint at doesn’t come until Tuesday, July 21st. Even then, it’s a marginal call. For the morning, we’ve got a 3 ft swell from the east with a long 16-second period pushing through. The combined energy is strong at 1191, so there’s plenty of grunt, but that long period at a reef break like Haubush can make it a bit fat and straight. The problem is the wind is still a moderate cross-shore, so the surface will be a cross-chop. It’s not good, just less bad. The afternoon stays the same story with a fresh cross-shore. The day after, Wednesday the 22nd, is also a call of “marginal” with a 3 ft east swell, again hit by a cross wind.

Other than that window, it’s all “poor surf conditions” day after day. The wind is either a fresh or strong breeze, and it’s always cross-shore, creating lumpy, messy conditions. The swell direction flips around a bit – from a short, weak ENE to a long-period SSW – but it doesn’t matter because the wind ruins it. We see some strong energy peaks (like 876 and 1191) but they’re all wasted. For a setup like this, with that much wind and chop, you’d honestly be better off rigging a kite than paddling a surfboard.

So, the short version: don’t plan a trip. There’s one extremely marginal window around the 21st, but it’s not something I’d get excited about. The rest of the 16 days is a write-off.

Rusty

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