Inchydoney Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty. Let's be straight with you about Inchydoney for the next couple of weeks.

Look, I'm looking at the whole 16-day window, and I gotta be honest with you: this is a tough stretch. The first recommendation doesn't even pop up until Sunday morning, July 5th, and even then it's a struggle. The whole run is basically a write-off for decent paddle surfing. We're talking tiny waves, mostly around 0.7 ft to 1 ft, with a lot of cross-shore and cross-onshore wind messing things up. The combined swell energy is weak, barely cracking 30 or 40 (24 to 69 range for most of it), which tells you there's just no push behind it.

This is a sheltered river break, and it's inconsistent at the best of times, so a blank run like this isn't totally out of the ordinary for the area. The water temp is about average for this time of year, nothing weird going on there.

For the first week, from the 5th right through to the 10th, it's pretty grim. The wind is all over the place, and the wave heights are tiny. There's a moment on the morning of Wednesday the 8th with glassy conditions, but the swell is still a pathetic 0.7 ft. It's just not enough to ride.

The second week is where things get a *tiny* bit more interesting, but don't get your hopes up. By Monday the 13th and Tuesday the 14th, the swell direction is locked into the SSW, which is the optimum direction for Inchydoney. The heights are still small—1 ft to 1 ft—but the energy finally picks up a notch, with moderate readings like 110 on Monday the 13th and 153 on Tuesday the 14th. The winds on those mornings are clean and cross-offshore from the ENE, which is about as good as it gets for this spot. It'll be clean, but you're still looking at barely rideable bumps. The long-period energy on the 13th (19 seconds) means there could be a few lined-up waves for a river mouth, but they'll be few and far between.

The best of the whole lot, and I mean the *best*, is probably Wednesday morning the 15th. It’s still only 1 ft of SSW swell, but the combined energy is moderate at 71 and the wind is a light cross-shore from the west, keeping it pretty clean. Then on Thursday afternoon the 16th, we get glassy conditions again with the same tiny 1 ft swell. If you're a beginner and just want to sit on a longboard in perfect conditions, that's your window.

If the swell stays this weak and the winds stay cross, this setup looks more interesting for a kite surfer than a paddle surfer. Honestly, keep an eye on the forecasts; it tends not to stay this poor for long around here. But for now, leave the boards in the car.

Rusty.

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