Spring Lake Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it. Rusty here, checking the charts for Spring Lake.

Honestly, mate, it’s a pretty flat and frustrating outlook for the next 16 days. There’s a little pulse early on, but nothing that gets the blood pumping. Let’s break it down.

The first bit of surf worth paddling out for kicks off Wednesday morning, the 29th of July. We’ve got a modest 5ft swell sneaking in from the southeast with a short 7-second period. The combined energy is moderate at best (188). Spring Lake is an exposed sandbar, and the wind is light offshore from the WNW, so conditions will be clean despite the weak, short-period stuff. It’s not going to set the world on fire, but for a Wednesday morning, you can get a few grovelly ones if you’re desperate. That afternoon, the swell drops to 4ft, still from the SE, period same dodgy 7 seconds, and the offshore breeze stiffens a little. It’s clean, but small and weak.

Thursday the 30th is your best shot of the whole run, and even that’s a stretch. Morning sees 3ft swell from the SSE, period bumping to 8 seconds. The offshore wind from the NW is light, keeping it tidy. The combined energy is weak (101). It’s head-high at best on the sets and gutless, but the cleanest it’ll be for a while. Afternoon turns to rubbish as a strong cross-shore from the NNE messes it up.

From Thursday afternoon onward, it’s a slow death. Friday the 31st through to Tuesday the 11th of August is a massive dry spell. You’ll see tiny little knee-high wobbles and onshore junk. The combined energy numbers drop into the weak two-digit range – a few readings down to single digits (6, 8, 9). There’s a bit of a bump Monday the 10th with 3ft from the ENE but the period is a terrible 5 seconds and the wind is cross-shore. It’s not worth getting wet for.

Finally, on Tuesday the 11th of August, we get a tiny flicker. 2ft from the east with a 7-second period, and a light cross-offshore breeze from the NNW in the morning keeps it clean. Combined energy is a weak 63. It’s surfable but very ordinary. After that, it fades back to nothing through Wednesday and Thursday.

There’s no standout here, nothing even close. If you absolutely have to surf, Thursday the 30th morning is the pick of a bad bunch – clean, small, and weak. But honestly, for kites, the windy afternoons with some chop might offer more fun than a paddle board will get.

Rusty out.

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