Pont Blondin Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty here. We’ve got a 16-day window for Pont Blondin, and I’ll be straight with you – it starts off pretty flat and messy, with a whole heap of nothing on offer for the first stretch. From the 18th to the 21st of August, we’re looking at tiny, weak waves with poor conditions. You’d be better off doing something else. There’s a serious lull there, days of nothing surfable.

Things start to perk up a touch around the 22nd and 23rd, but it’s still pretty marginal. The swell pushes up over 4ft (4ft) from the northwest, and the energy gets a bit more moderate (240), but it’s still cross-onshore and choppy, so it’s not going to be pretty. We get a slight bump on the 24th with a 5ft swell from the NNW, but the wind is still all over it. It’s not until the 26th that we start to see some offshore wind sneak in, but the waves are still unremarkable.

Now, the standout window is the tail end of the month. The 28th of August, Thursday morning, is where you want to be. We’ve got a clean 6ft NW swell with a light NNE cross-offshore wind. The energy is strong (330) and the conditions are clean. This is the call. It’s the biggest swell of the window and the wind is right. Pont Blondin is a beach and point break, and a cross-off with that swell is going to line it up nicely. It’s pushing 6ft, which is still fine for most, but beginners might find it a little much.

The 29th and 30th also have good morning sessions with clean 5ft waves from the NW and the same light cross-off winds, but the 28th is the pick. The mornings are all on – light winds, clean surf, and a decent push of energy hitting 300+. The afternoons on those days get a bit cross-shore and lumpy, so get your fix early.

There’s a bit of a fade into the first few days of September. The 1st has a clean but smaller 4ft morning, and the 2nd drops away again to under 3ft. The long-range stuff looks promising but less certain, so keep an eye on the charts. The water temp is about average for this time of year, so it’s not going to be anything out of the ordinary. All in all, the 28th through the 30th are your best bets. Everything else is either too small, too messy, or just not worth the paddle out.

Rusty.

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