Right and Left Side Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s coming down the pipe for the next couple of weeks.

Right off the bat, I gotta be honest with you – the first week or so is looking pretty grim. We’ve got a stretch from Saturday the 5th right through to the end of the following week where the conditions are just messy. There’s wave energy, for sure – moderate, hitting around the 200s to 400s in some spots – but it's arriving with all the wrong company. The wind is mostly cross or cross-onshore, and in the afternoons it's just choppy and lumpy. You’d be fighting a losing battle. Not worth the paddle.

The only real standout in this whole two-week window is Right and Left Side. It’s an exposed reef break, and while it’s usually pretty inconsistent, we’ve got a little window of something good. Starting Saturday the 12th, we get a lovely clean-up. That morning we've got glassy conditions and the wind is light cross-offshore from the ESE. The swell runs about 3 ft with a long 14-second period from the ENE. That’s some clean, ground-swell energy – it’ll be a slower, more powerful wave, very suited to this kind of reef. By the afternoon the wind goes straight offshore from the ESE, still light, and the wave quality holds. The wave energy is strong (380 to 360 in the charts), so there's solid push behind it. The swell direction syncs with the optimum N direction about as well as you can hope for here. It’s a small, clean wave. Not huge, not for the big-wave crowd, but for a picky reef that rarely shows its face, this is the moment.

This good spell stretches into Sunday the 13th and Monday the 14th with similar offshore breezes from the SE, and swell holding at 3 ft. The period dips just a little, but the quality stays high. The Tuesday the 15th continues the trend with nice clean morning conditions and light winds. There is a possible crowd factor – this spot can get busy sometimes – and with conditions like this, you can bet a few locals will be stoked.

After that, the surf fades. By Wednesday the 16th we get some glassy afternoon waves, but the size drops off, and by the end of the week we’re down to small, weak 2-2 ft and next to no energy. The good days are that weekend right in the middle – Saturday the 12th through Tuesday the 15th. That's your window.

Rusty.

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