Hullets Reef Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Look, I’m gonna be straight with you – this is a tough forecast for Hullets Reef. We’ve got a lot of wind and messy conditions to wade through before we find anything decent. The first real chance of a surf doesn’t arrive until Tuesday the 8th, and even then it’s a bit of a tease. There are some promising waves later on, but you’ll need patience.

The water temp is sitting at 64°, which is pretty much bang on average for this time of year, so no surprises there.

The first few days are a write-off. From Thursday the 3rd right through to Monday the 7th, it’s a mess of cross-shore and cross-onshore winds, lumpy chop, and poor conditions. We get a pulse of swell on the 3rd – 8ft from the SSW with a fair period of 13 seconds, but the cross wind just ruins it. The energy is there (1839), but it’s not surfable. The wind only gets worse, with Friday the 4th seeing 22 mph cross winds and a bumpy 12ft SSE swell (1780 energy) – that’s too big for beginners and only for the very keen, but the quality is trash. Sunday the 6th has some serious size, 8ft on the afternoon with a massive 5357 combined energy, but it’s a strong onshore mess. Kite surfers might be frothing, but for a paddle surfer, it’s a hard pass.

Now, the standout window appears on Tuesday the 8th. The morning session is the pick of the first week. We get a clean 5ft SW groundswell, a 13-second period, and crucially, the wind goes to glassy calm – zero mph from the SW. That’s pure glass. The combined energy is a solid 1137, so there’s some push. This is a beginner-friendly wave at a reef break, and with that offshore direction (SW) being spot on for the optimum, it’s going to be clean and fun. The crowd factor is “sometimes” so you might have company, but for this quality, it’s worth it.

After that, we get a couple of clean offshore mornings on the 9th with smaller 3-4ft SW swell, but the size fades. Then we’re back into a grim run of onshore winds from the 10th through the 12th. The 13th and 14th see a huge jump in size – 12ft to 13ft SSW swells (close to 6000 energy) – but it’s all cross-onshore again, blown out and messy. Only for the hardcore or the kite crew.

Things start to turn around again on Tuesday the 15th, with a clean cross-off wind and a 6ft SSW swell, but the real highlight of the whole forecast comes on Wednesday the 16th. This is the one to circle. The morning session offers up 6ft of S swell, with a moderate offshore breeze (12 mph from the WSW) making it clean. The period is 11 seconds, so it has some grunt, and the combined energy is 1597 – nice and solid. The notes say “excellent surf conditions for experienced surfers.” The difficulty for this break is beginner, so the 6ft size is pushing it for learners, but for any intermediate or above, this is the best quality wave of the entire 16 days. The afternoon also stays clean with a 6ft SW swell and a longer 16-second period, but the wind picks up to 22 mph, so the morning is your best bet.

We finish the run on the 17th and 18th with moderate to clean cross-off winds and some decent sized SW swell (7ft to 12ft), but the conditions are described as marginal, so it’s not quite as crisp as the 16th.

So, to sum it up: the best on offer is Tuesday the 8th morning for that glassy, fun-size wave, and Wednesday the 16th morning for the best quality, bigger wave. Everything else is a battle with the wind.

Rusty.

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