Schnappers Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you – this outlook for the next sixteen days is a tough one. We’ve got Schnappers Point as our only option on the table, and honestly, it’s a quiet stretch. The break is a point setup, fairly consistent, but the swell and wind just aren’t lining up for any standout sessions. There’s a big gap of nothing happening at all, and when there is surf, it’s small and messy. Let’s walk through it.

Right now, Tuesday afternoon the 25th of August, there’s a tiny 2ft swell from the NW with a short 5 second period. The combined swell energy is weak at 23. A cross breeze from the WSW at 12 mph is making it choppy. It’s poor. Not worth waxing up.

Wednesday the 26th is a write-off – glassy and calm, but there’s zero swell in the water. Same for Thursday morning the 27th: a cleaner offshore breeze from the SE at 3 mph, but you’re looking at only 1ft of swell. Thursday afternoon goes glassy with a 0.3ft swell that has a very long 16 second period (that’s groundswell), but it’s so small it’s barely a ripple.

Now, Friday the 28th of August brings a pulse. The morning shows a solid 8ft swell from the north, period of 8 seconds, and the combined energy jumps to 871 – that’s strong wave energy. But it’s onshore wind from the north at 25 mph, making it a complete mess. This is expert-only territory size-wise (over 8ft), but with that wind, even experts won’t want it. The afternoon is still onshore, 6ft swell, energy at 614, but again blown out. More of a kite-surfing scene than a paddling one.

Saturday the 29th is our first tiny glimpse of hope. The morning is glassy, clean, with a SW breeze at just 3 mph, and a small 2ft swell from the north, 8-second period. The energy is weak at 61. It’s surfable but very ordinary. The best of a bad lot, but nothing to get excited about.

After that, it’s a long, flat gap. Sunday the 30th through to Monday the 7th of September is a wasteland. Swells hover between 0.3ft and 3ft, periods are short or way too long for the tiny size, and winds are variable but never helpful. Tuesday the 1st of September sees zero swell. Wednesday the 2nd has only 0.7ft to 2ft with a choppy cross-onshore breeze.

We get another little bump on Sunday the 6th of September morning: 3ft from the NW, 5-second period, energy at 67, with a clean cross-offshore breeze from the SW at 6 mph. It’s surfable, but still very ordinary. That afternoon turns onshore again.

The very last day worth mentioning is Wednesday the 9th of September. The morning serves up 4ft from the NW, 6-second period, with a moderate energy reading of 103. But it’s onshore wind from the NNW at 6 mph, and there’s heavy rain in the afternoon with a strong 22 mph onshore wind. Not a day to be in the water.

Water temp at the start (25th) was 54°, which is average for this time of year – no anomaly to report. So nothing weird going on there.

Honestly, this is a flat period. If you’ve got to paddle out, the best shot is Saturday morning the 29th of August – glassy, tiny waves, but at least it’s clean. Everything else is either blown out, flat, or huge and messy. Don’t hold your breath.

Rusty.

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