Tamaris Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cooking for Tamaris.

The short story is: don’t get your hopes up. This is a real flat spell we’re looking at, stretching right through the entire 16-day window. There’s nothing on the table that I’d recommend paddling out for. The surf quality is poor across the board, and that’s being honest.

Looking at the first few days, from Monday the 24th of August, we’ve got a tiny, weak swell. Monday morning shows a 0.3 ft south-west swell with a period of only 4 seconds, and the combined energy is a meagre 1. The wind is a cross-onshore breeze at 9 mph, so it’s choppy and messy. The afternoon is a bit bigger at 2.6 ft but still tiny, with a 19 mph cross-onshore wind making it lumpy. Not a chance.

The whole week pretty much stays the same. Tuesday the 25th and Wednesday the 26th are a write-off. Thursday the 27th shows a 4.6 ft swell from the east-south-east, but the energy is still only moderate (184), and it’s blown out by a 12 mph cross-shore wind. The biggest wave of the period comes on Thursday afternoon – 5.6 ft from the south-east – but with a 28 mph cross-onshore wind, it’s a complete mess. Not for surfing.

After that, it’s a long, drawn-out fade. The end of August and into the first week of September sees nothing but tiny, ankle-to-knee-high dribble. The wind does turn clean and offshore at times, like Friday afternoon the 28th with a light cross-offshore breeze, but on a 2.0 ft, 6-second south-west swell with only 49 energy, it’s just not worth the paddle. The weekend of the 30th and 31st is similar – clean, but with waves barely 1.3 ft. It’s a glassy pond, not a surf break.

Then we hit a real dead zone. Tuesday the 1st of September has zero swell – the chart shows nothing. That continues through to the 3rd, when we get a tiny 1.6 ft bump on the 3rd, and a 3.3 ft, 6-second west swell on the afternoon of the 3rd, but with 19 mph cross-offshore wind, it’s just a clean, blown-out line. The energy is moderate at 73, but it’s straight and weak.

The rest of the forecast is a ghost town. The 4th, 5th, and 6th of September have absolutely nothing rideable. The 7th is flat again. The 8th is a 1.6 ft south-west swell with a cross-shore wind, but it’s over.

There is no standout. There is no best day. The forecast confidence is high for the first week, and it’s all bad news. For a reef break that’s meant to be fairly consistent, this is a tough run. It’s the kind of situation where you’d be better off cleaning the wax off your board and waiting for the next system. The outlook for the area is simply a long, flat patch.

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