Saint Annes Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Gonna be straight with you – it's a tough stretch ahead for Saint Annes. This is a sheltered reef break that works best on a WNW swell, and we just aren't seeing that. For the next week and a half, it's a whole lot of nothing special.

The surf is tiny, and the wind is nearly always coming from the wrong direction, putting a cross-on or cross-shore chop on everything. The water temp is about average for this time of year, nothing to write home about. The combined swell energy is weak, mostly sitting between 200 and 500 (204), which is just not enough to get the reef working. You'll be bobbing around on messy, 1ft to 3ft waves with a period around 15-19 seconds – that's a long, drawn-out groundswell that doesn't have the power to wrap in properly here. Basically, it's a lot of waiting for a weak, wonky ride.

From Tuesday 11 August right through to Thursday 20 August, the story is the same: poor surf conditions. There's a slight uptick on the morning of Saturday 15 August, where the swell hits 3ft and the score is a "1", but it's still cross-on and messy. The morning of Sunday 16 August is the same story. The only real change comes on the afternoon of Saturday 22 August. The swell jumps to 8ft from the WNW with a short period of 7 seconds, and the combined energy jumps up to 702 (moderate). That's big for Saint Annes, but it's a short-period windswell, meaning it will be a bumpy, choppy mess. The wind is still cross-on from the W at 6 mph. At 8ft, this is expert-only territory, but the conditions won't be clean enough even for them. Given the messy, windy conditions, this setup looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing.

Honestly, this is a blank run. There are no standouts in this entire 16-day window. The consistent onshore flow and tiny swell just aren't giving us anything to work with.

Rusty.

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