Hobson County Park Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right then, let’s have a look at what’s on the table. To be brutally honest, mate, the next couple of weeks are looking pretty flat and sad for Hobson County Park.

The water temperature is sitting at 71°, which is a whopping 7° warmer than normal for this time of year – that’s seriously unusual, like swimming in bathwater, but unfortunately, that's about the only exciting thing going on.

We start with Wednesday the 2nd of September, and there’s just nothing doing. Swell is a tiny 1ft from the SW, with a long period of 16 seconds. The combined energy is weak at 84. It’s a no-go. That sets the tone for the whole run.

The swell does try to pick up a touch. By Friday the 4th of September, we see 2ft from the SSW, period 17 seconds, and energy climbing to 230 – that’s moderate energy at least. Still, the wind is cross-on or onshore, and the surf reports are calling it poor. Saturday the 5th is the closest we get to anything, with a 2ft SSW swell and energy hitting 318 on the Saturday afternoon. The wind drops light and onshore, and the report scratches a 1 out of 10 for “marginal” conditions. That’s it. That’s the best of a bad bunch.

For the rest of the first week and into the second, it’s the same story. We get pulses of 3ft swell on the 7th and 8th, but it’s short period (13 seconds) and the wind is always on it. The energy stays moderate, peaking around 320, but it’s never clean, never good. The spot is a reef break, consistent, and handles a WSW optimum, but the conditions just refuse to line up.

After the 8th of September, we drop back into the 2ft to 1ft range with very long periods (up to 21 seconds on the 17th), but that kind of groundswell with no size just rolls through without any push. The total combined energy drops back under 200, and often under 100 by the second weekend. It’s a long, drawn-out flat spell with no standout windows.

Bottom line: there are no good surf options in this 16-day window. The spot is consistent enough that this run is unusual. It tends not to be this poor for this long, so don’t write it off forever. For now, the better call might be to leave the boards in the truck and just have a cold one.

Rusty.

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