Super Tubes Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s cut through the noise and get you onto the good waves. The next 16 days are a bit of a mixed bag, with a slow start, a solid pulse mid-week, and some real size for the experts further out. We’ll be looking at Super Tubes, and only Super Tubes, so keep your focus there.

The first few days are pretty ordinary. Wednesday the 9th is flat and messy, with a tiny 2ft swell and 316 energy. Not worth your time. Thursday the 10th, though, we start seeing something. The swell jumps to 3ft from the SSW with a 17-second period, and that’s proper groundswell energy – breaking 899. The morning wind is a moderate offshore from the WSW. That’s a goer, maybe not for the faint-hearted as the tide could be funky, but it’s the first real surf of the run. The afternoon gets even better with 5ft and 1677 energy, but that’s pushing into experienced territory.

Friday the 11th is the standout for the early period. The morning is glassy – a total calm – with 7ft of SW swell at 13 seconds. Clean, powerful, and on the good side of big. This is the pick of the first week. The afternoon still has 7ft but a cross-shore breeze starts to mess it up.

Saturday and Sunday turn to junk. Onshore winds, chop, and a real mess. Not your day. Monday the 14th brings a brief calm with 4ft and glassy conditions, a quick chance for a clean one, but then we get into a bit of a lull.

Now, the big news. Wednesday the 16th and Thursday the 17th are the true standouts for anyone who charges. Wednesday morning brings 8ft at 6324 energy in the afternoon, with a cross-off wind. That’s big, powerful, and for experts only. Thursday the 17th holds 10ft in the morning with light winds. This is the heavy stuff, the kind of day that separates the men from the boys. If you’re advanced, this is your window.

After that, things drop off into a messy, onshore pattern for the weekend of the 19th and 20th, and things get blown out. We finally see a return to cleaner conditions on Tuesday the 23rd, with a 5ft SW swell and a cross-off wind, but nothing on the scale of the mid-week pulse. The very end of the window is still holding some energy, but the winds aren’t as clean.

A note on the water: the first good session on Thursday the 10th, the water temp is 54°, which is 12° colder than normal for this time of year. That’s seriously cold water, so bring the thickest suit you own.

Super Tubes is a reef and point, very consistent, and handles SW swell best. When it’s on, it’s world-class, and crowds are often an issue. But with these sizes, most of the crew might be letting it pass.

So, to sum it up: the early window on Friday the 11th is your clean, gnarly classic. The mid-week window on the 16th and 17th is the big, expert-only swell. And the 23rd is a fun, smaller option. Don’t waste your time on the flat and blown-out days in between.

Rusty out.

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