La Palue Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, I'm Rusty, and I've got the surf picture for La Palue. Let's look at what's coming.

Alright, fair dinkum, this is a tough stretch. The finder's got nothing good for any of the days, so we're lookin' at a proper blank run for the next couple of weeks. The wave energy is mostly weak, barely crackin' triple digits at its best, and even then, the wind's all wrong. It's a bleak run, but sometimes that's just how it goes here.

The first chance you'd even paddle out is Wednesday morning, July 8th. Now, don't get excited. We've got a tiny 3ft swell out of the WNW with a 10-second period. The combined energy is a paltry 109, so we're talking weak sauce. The only thing savin' it is the wind is glassy, dead calm out of the NNW at 3 mph. That'll keep the surface clean as a whistle, but you'll be fightin' for scraps. By the arvo, that wind fires up to 16 mph cross-shore and it's all over.

Thursday morning the 9th is similar – still 3ft WNW swell, but with a nicer NNE cross-offshore breeze at 9 mph that'll groom it up. It's clean, but still just ordinary. By the end of the week and into the weekend, the swell just drops off the face of the earth. Friday the 10th morning has a sniff of 3ft with clean cross-off wind, but after that, we're talkin' knee-high dribble with no power.

There's a bit of a spike around Friday the 17th of July, with a 5ft to 6ft south-west swell pushing through. That's proper size for La Palue, but look at the combined energy: 283 to 320. That's a bit of grunt. The problem is it's all onshore wind, howlin' from the W and WSW. That's gonna make it a choppy, blown-out mess. For a beach-and-reef setup like this, that's more of a kite-surfing situation than a fun paddle session. Not worth it.

Then again, on the 22nd of July, we see the biggest energy of the forecast – a 7ft WNW groundswell with a combined energy of 472. That's got some power, but it's huge for this spot. Head-high plus with onshore WSW wind howlin' at 25 mph? That's an expert-only day and even then, it'll be a battle with the chop. The wind is just goin' to ruin it.

So, to sum it up: the first real stand-out for a *chance* at something rideable is that Wednesday morning, July 8th. The swell is minimal, but if you're desperate for a glassy session on a longboard, you might snag a few. Don't hold your breath for anything after that. The longer-range stuff on the 17th and 22nd is too compromised by the wind to be called good. It's a waiting game, lads.

Rusty.

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