Indicator Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Righteo, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s coming up over the next couple of weeks. To be honest, it’s a pretty lean stretch for the Indicator reef-and-point set-up. The first solid recommendation doesn’t show up until Monday morning the 25th of August, and even then it’s not exactly firing.

The overall pattern is one of small, weak swells and a lot of onshore or cross-onshore wind, which is going to chop things up. There’s a bit of a run of nothing from the start of the window right through to Sunday the 24th afternoon – that first record shows poor surf with a tiny 1 ft swell.

The standout in this whole 16-day window is the Tuesday morning session on the 3rd of September. That’s a clean, cross-offshore morning with the water feeling much warmer than normal – we’re talking 72°F here, which is over five degrees warmer than usual for the time of year, so that’s really unusual. The swell is a small 1 ft from the SW, but with a long period of 16 seconds. That long-period groundswell will wrap in nicely at this reef-and-point break, and with the light S wind it’ll be clean. The combined swell energy at that time is a moderate 153. Not a big day, but the conditions will be right for a few tidy ones. Crowds are possible here in the better windows, so don’t expect to have it to yourself.

Before that, the best of the early run looks like Saturday morning the 30th of August. A small 4 ft from the W with a short period of 7 seconds, but it’s clean with a cross-off breeze. Combined energy is 116, so moderate. It’s not a standout, but it’s the best we get for a while.

The rest of the period is mostly poor surf or very ordinary. A few mornings like the 25th and 26th of August and the 3rd of September have clean conditions but tiny swell. There’s no real size here – nothing over 4 ft, so it’s all pretty small-scale. Most afternoons get chopped up by the W or WSW breeze.

For that Tuesday morning on the 3rd of September, that’s the one to circle. It’s still a week and a half away, so don’t lock it in just yet, but it looks the most promising by a long shot.

Rusty.

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