Schnappers Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here, looking at the local picture for the next 16 days at our one and only spot, Schnappers Point. To be straight with you, it’s a pretty grim outlook overall. The first few days do have some surf, but it’s tiny and nothing to get excited about. There’s a long stretch of flat, poor conditions in the middle, and the second week doesn’t offer much hope either.

We start off on Saturday the 25th of July morning with a small 3ft swell from the north, running at 8 seconds. The combined energy is weak at 108 points. It’s surfable, but the wind is a cross-off from the SSW at 6 mph, so it’s clean, but not special. By the afternoon, the rain moves in and the swell drops to 2ft – not worth the effort.

Sunday the 26th of July morning is a different story, but not for the size. The swell is tiny at 0.7ft, pushing in from the NNW with a very long 14-second period. The wind is glassy calm from the SE at 3 mph. The water temp is 54°, which is about average for this time of year. It’s a beautiful, glassy morning, but the waves are just too small to make a proper session worthwhile. The afternoon stays glassy, but the swell is even smaller.

Monday the 27th of July is dead flat to tiny, with a 0.7ft swell and light cross-off winds. The rest of the week from Tuesday the 28th through to the end of the month is a write-off, with swell heights barely reaching 3ft on Thursday the 30th, but the wind is onshore and messy. The combined energy is still weak, maxing at 83 points. Friday the 31st of July sees a 4ft northerly swell, the biggest of the whole period, with a moderate 230 combined energy reading, but it’s accompanied by moderate rain and a fresh onshore breeze at 19 mph from the north. It’s a messy, windy, rainy day – more of a wind-swept mess than surfable waves.

The first weekend of August (Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd) is almost flat, with offshore winds, but the swell is gone. The water temp anomaly is normal, but the whole stretch from around the 28th of July right through to the 9th of August is a long, flat gap. There’s a tiny pulse of very long-period 19-second groundswell on Monday the 3rd of August in the morning, but it’s only 0.7ft – not enough to even wet the rails. The second week is a steady diet of flat calm or tiny, unrideable waves.

Honestly, the only true standout is Sunday the 26th of July morning, but only because of the glassy conditions. The 0.7ft, 14-second swell from the NNW is a classic long-period groundswell, and at a point break like Schnappers Point, it should wrap in cleanly, but it’s just too small to call it a proper session. If you’re desperate for a paddle and a float, that’s your window. For the rest of the 16 days, you’re better off waxing the kiteboard – the wind and chop on Friday the 31st of July at least has some energy (230 combined energy), but it’s not for paddle surfing.

Rusty.

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