Mullaway Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Look, I’ll be straight with you – the next 16 days at Mullaway are a bit of a mixed bag with a whole lot of average to sit through before we get a couple of real shiny moments. The pattern starts rough and stays that way for a while, so don’t get your hopes up early.

The first good surf on offer doesn’t kick in until Tuesday the 21st. Tuesday morning, the wind goes glassy, and the swell drops to a clean 6 ft from the east with a 10-second period. The combined energy is moderate at 612, which is a solid little pulse for a point break. The water’s sitting at 68°, which is about average for this time of year – nothing weird here. This is the standout of the whole run: clean, glassy Mullaway, and those east swells wrap in nicely. The wind is dead calm, so it’ll be smooth as. Crowds are often around here, so expect a few others with the same idea.

Then Tuesday afternoon, the wind switches to east onshore at 6 mph, dropping the swell to 5 ft and the energy to 525. It’s still surfable, but you’ll want to be out in the morning.

Wednesday the 22nd morning, we get a light cross-offshore breeze from the northwest at 6 mph, with the swell down to 4 ft east at 9 seconds. Energy’s only 258, so it’s small and clean but nothing to write home about. Wednesday afternoon gets messy again.

From Thursday the 23rd through to the end of the forecast, it’s mostly small, weak, and plagued by cross-shore or cross-onshore winds. The swell drops to under 3 ft, periods are short, and the energy falls into the double digits. There’s a bit of a bump on Saturday the 26th morning with a 3 ft south swell and a very long 14-second period, but energy is only 233, and it’s cross-shore – that long period will make it break straight at this beachy point, so it’s more for the longboarders or a sneaky paddle.

The very end of the run, on Saturday the 1st of August afternoon, we get a clean little 3 ft south-southeast swell with a 17-second period and 427 energy, with light cross-offshore wind. That’s your second highlight – glassy, clean, but small. Still, way better than the rubbish in between.

The first week is a write-off: Friday the 17th through Monday the 20th, it’s all cross-onshore winds over 12 mph, lumpy, messy, and the swell is too big with poor quality. Sunday the 19th has 12 ft of east-southeast at 10 seconds – that’s well over 8 ft, so only for experts, and with strong cross-onshore winds, it’ll be a washing machine. That setup looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

For the keen ones, get on Tuesday the 21st morning. That’s the pick of the whole forecast. The rest is a long wait for a few small windows.

Rusty.

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