Junkyards Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty, and I gotta be straight with you. Lookin' at the charts for our little corner of the world here, and it's a bit of a tough stretch. We've got Junkyards, a reef setup that loves a good SW swell, but the next couple of weeks are lookin' pretty flat and sad.

We start off on Friday the 17th with some tiny, weak 3 ft swell from the SW, but the wind is on it, blowin' straight onshore at 12 mph. That's just messy, and the wave energy is weak, sittin' at 120. That theme continues right through the weekend and into the next week. Saturday and Sunday are the same story—small, onshore junk. The water's a touch colder than usual for this time of year, but honestly, you won't even care because the surf is so poor.

We hit a real flat spell. From Monday the 20th, it just gets smaller and smaller. By Wednesday the 22nd and Thursday the 23rd, we're talkin' ankle-biters at 1.0 ft to 1 ft, with practically no energy left (15 to 8). It gets glassy, which is nice for a paddle, but there's not a wave to ride. This empty stretch of tiny nothing lasts for about four or five days, all the way through to the end of that week.

Now, late in the month, things get wild, but not in a good way for Junkyards. On Thursday the 30th of July, a massive, dangerous swell shows up. We're talkin' 23 ft to 25 ft of WNW swell, with a very long 11 to 12-second period, and the wave energy is absolutely insane, hittin' values like 11,178 and 14,770. The wind is light and cross-onshore, which would be clean, but the report says it's just too big for this break. That's expert territory only, and even then, it's a maybe.

The day after that, Friday the 31st, it's still huge and maxed out, with 15 ft to 16 ft waves and energy readings well over 8,000. The wind is cross-shore, makin' it a bit lumpy. It's still too much for a good time.

Finally, we get a glimpse of hope. On Saturday, the 1st of August, the swell settles down to a still-chunky 8 ft from the WNW, with a solid 12-second period. The wind turns offshore, light from the NNE, and it's clean. The wave energy is strong, sittin' around 2,333. This is the one. This is the standout. For experienced surfers, this is excellent. The swell direction is a bit west of the optimum SW, but with that clean offshore wind and that much power, Junkyards should have some proper, grinding reef walls. Just know it's a heavy wave at that size.

So, the long and short of it is: a whole lot of flat, then a period of terrifyingly big swell, and then one solid, clean day for the crew that can handle it.

Rusty.

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