Ruby Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G'day, Rusty here. Well, I've gotta be straight with ya – if you're looking for a surf this week, you're gonna be staring at a flat lake for a while. Ruby Bay is the only spot on the cards, and it's a tough one. This place is a sheltered little point, a beginner spot that rarely breaks, and the outlook is a long, drawn-out stretch of nothing. We're talking over a week of poor surf conditions, day after day, starting from today, the 7th of September. The water temp here is about average for this time of year, nothing to write home about.

There's a tiny window of tiny, crummy waves around the 7th and 8th, but that's it. Monday morning the 7th, there's a weak 3 ft swell from the ESE, but with a short period of only 5 seconds, it's all mush, and there's a bit of rain and cross-off wind to deal with. The energy is basically nothing (81). Monday afternoon, it drops to a glassy 1.0 ft from the north, with a period of 9 seconds – looks pretty but there's no push behind it, just 14 in the energy department. Tuesday is more of the same, tiny, weak waves. After that, it's a solid block of zeros – nothing, nada, for days. The wind is often offshore or glassy, but there's simply no swell to work with.

Now, there is a bit of a tease right at the end of the run. Around Saturday the 18th and into Sunday the 20th, we start to see some size appear. Saturday afternoon the 18th, the energy jumps to 119 with a 4 ft NW swell, but it's a short period of 6 seconds, so it'll be bumpy and weak. Sunday the 19th is similar, with a 4 ft N swell. But the real blip is on Sunday the 20th. Morning and afternoon both show a 5 ft N swell with a much better 10-second period, and the energy jumps to a solid 386. The wind is looking clean, cross-off in the morning and glassy in the afternoon. But don't get too excited – even then, the conditions are described as "very ordinary" and it only scrapes a score of 1 out of 10. It's a tiny, inconsistent point break, so a 5 ft swell might actually be the best it gets for a fleeting moment. But with a period of 10 seconds and a northerly swell coming from the opposite direction of the optimum (N), it's not going to wrap in properly. It'll likely be a messy, close-out shorebreak.

After that tease, it fades back to tiny, poor surf on the 21st and 22nd. Honestly, the whole 16-day window is a write-off. It’s a real bummer for a spot that so rarely offers anything. If you're desperate, keep an eye on that Sunday the 20th, but I wouldn't plan a trip around it. The forecast can change, but right now, it's looking like a long, flat spell.

Rusty.

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