Barinatxe - La Salvaje Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's lined up for Barinatxe - La Salvaje.

Right off the bat, I gotta be straight with you: the next couple of weeks are a real mixed bag, and honestly, pretty disappointing for a place that can be so good. There's a big gap of nothing special ahead. The first week is mostly small and ordinary, and even when there's a little bump in size, the conditions just aren't playing ball.

Sunday the 5th is the only real standout in the whole run, but it's a delicate one. We’ve got a tiny 2ft groundswell from the NNW with a period of 11 seconds – that's a long-period groundswell, so there's some energy there (moderate wave energy at 114). The real beauty of this morning is the glassy conditions with no wind. That'll make the water look like a mirror. The water is a very unusual 73°, more than 3° warmer than normal for this time of year, so that's a treat. It's an expert break, so it's not for the faint-hearted, but for those who know it, that window of glassy conditions on a long-period NW swell is the moment to be out there. Afternoon sees a cross-onshore breeze come up, and the session turns ordinary.

After that, we hit a long stretch of poor conditions. Monday the 6th through to Tuesday the 14th is just two weeks of tiny surf, mostly under 2ft, with winds that are either onshore or cross-shore and a lot of chop. The wave energy stays weak, mostly below 100, so there's just no grunt in the water. There's a brief chance on Wednesday morning the 15th with a tiny 2ft wave and glassy conditions, but again, it's very ordinary.

Then, around Friday the 17th, we see a spike in size but the wind is a mess. The swell jumps to 6ft from the WNW (strong wave energy at 269), but it's coming with a fresh 9 mph cross-onshore wind and a short period of 7 seconds. That's a wind-swell mess, lumpy and choppy. For a beach and reef setup like this, that's more interesting for a kite surfer than a paddle surfer. Saturday the 18th is just howling onshore wind and even smaller.

So, the one real highlight is Sunday morning, the 5th of July, at La Salvaje (Barinatxe - La Salvaje) with glassy conditions and that long-period NNW swell. Get after it if you can. The rest is a write-off until the end of the window, and even then, it's uncertain.

Keep your eyes peeled.

Rusty.

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