Honkeys Surf Forecast and Surf Report

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

Honestly, it’s a pretty bleak picture. We’ve got a solid 16-day window, but there’s not a single morning or afternoon that I’d look at and say, “Yeah, that’s a go.” The water’s warm at 85°, which is about average for this time of year, but that’s the only thing that’s average. The rest is a mess.

The problem is the wind. Almost every session is plagued by a cross-onshore breeze, keeping the surface chopped up and bumpy. The swell doesn’t do us any favours either. For Honkeys (a reef break that needs a clean S swell), we get some S and SSE pulses, but the wind just kills any chance of quality. The wave energy is moderate at best, hitting values like 318 in the early going, which doesn’t mean much when it’s messy.

We start off with Sunday, 12 July, no dice. Monday, 13 July, through to Wednesday, 15 July, we see some chest-high swell around 3 to 4ft, but the cross-wind keeps it from ever coming together. The swell period is decent at 11 to 16 seconds, suggesting some real groundswell energy, but with the wind all wrong, it’s wasted. The combined energy climbs up to 685 on Monday arvo, which is solid, but the wave comment basically says it’s all for nothing.

We go through a long, uninspiring stretch. The entire first week is just a write-off. There’s a period from Sunday, 12 July all the way through to the end of the window on Monday, 27 July, where every session is rated poor or marginal. That’s a gap of over two weeks with nothing worth paddling out for.

Around Monday, 20 July, we get a glimpse of a 17-second period swell pulsing in from the S, hitting 3ft, but again, the wind is cross-onshore. It’s a teaser, not a session.

On Wednesday, 22 July, there’s a very long period swell from the S with 21 seconds, producing weak-looking 2ft, but a combined energy of 445. That’s a classic indicator of a clean, powerful groundswell, but with such a small height and persistent onshore flow, it’s only interesting for the numbers, not for riding.

The best we can say is for Thursday, 24 July, and Friday, 25 July, the winds drop to a light cross-onshore or even a light cross-shore. The swell holds around 3 to 4ft from the SSE to SE. The combined energy is moderate, around 400. It’s not good, but it’s less terrible. If you absolutely have to get wet, you could poke around Honkeys on the Friday morning and find a few, but it’ll be a grovel.

Nothing here is a standout. There’s no session I’d recommend over another. Given the setup is a reef break that’s fairly consistent, you’d expect more, but when the wind blows like this, there’s not much to do but wait for the next forecast update.

Rusty.

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