Nesika Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what Nesika Beach has got cooking for us over the next couple of weeks.

Right off the bat, I gotta be honest with you: it’s a tough stretch ahead. We’re looking at a long, dry spell with barely a ripple worth mentioning for the first week and a half. The water is sitting at 53° – that’s a solid 5° colder than what’s normal for this time of year, so you’ll be wanting a good thick wetsuit if you’re even thinking about getting wet. The combined swell energy is hovering in the moderate range (253-540), but with the wind almost always blowing onshore or cross-onshore from the NNW at 9 to 22 mph, it’s just choppy, lumpy, and messy. The swell itself is small, mostly 1 ft to 4 ft, and what’s there is too wind-affected to be any good. There’s a real barren stretch from Tuesday the 18th all the way through to Saturday the 29th of August where the surf is either totally junk or just non-existent. You’d be better off checking the kite forecast because with this wind, that’s all that’s working.

Now, after that long wait, there is a tiny window of hope. On Sunday the 30th of August, we finally see things calm down. The morning is still just marginal, but by the afternoon the wind goes totally glassy – a dead calm from the W at 3 mph. The swell is small, about 3 ft from the SW, but it’s got a nice long period of 16 seconds, which means real groundswell energy. The combined energy is strong at 410, so there’s some push behind it. For a beach break like Nesika, that long period can make it close out a bit, but with glassy conditions, it’ll be clean and fun on a longboard or a fish. Expect it to be inconsistent, but if you’re patient, it’ll be the best session of the whole forecast.

That brief flirtation with quality passes quickly though. Monday the 31st of August goes back to marginal with a small 2 ft SW swell and a cross-onshore breeze, and Tuesday the 1st of September looks iffy again with some light rain and onshore winds. It’s a real shame, because the potential is there, but the timing just isn’t on our side this time.

So, the one true standout, the only real highlight in the whole 16 days, is that Sunday the 30th of August afternoon at Nesika Beach. It’s not big, it’s not powerful, but it’s clean – and that’s as good as it gets right now.

Rusty.

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