The Peak Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, let’s have a look at what’s on offer for The Peak over the next couple of weeks. Gotta be straight with you—this stretch isn’t exactly firing, but there’s a tiny window of hope if you’re patient.

The Peak is a reef set-up that gets exposed to west swell, and that’s our main source through this whole run. The water temps are sitting at 63°F – a full 6°F warmer than normal for this time of year, so that’s a very unusual warm patch. Won’t need the thickest rubber.

We start off with a real dud. Saturday the 4th sees onshore WSW winds pumping at 19 mph, cross and cross-on, with a chunky 5ft to 6ft west swell but it’s blown out. Poor conditions from the get-go. The combined swell energy is moderate, reading 398, but it’s not working for us. Sunday and Monday follow the same tired pattern—swell drops to 4ft, then 4ft, winds stay on it, and the wave quality is junk. No scores to speak of.

Tuesday the 7th tries to calm down with the wind going lighter, but it’s still cross-on and the swell is only 4ft. Not worth paddling out for.

Then we get a little window. Wednesday the 8th morning: glassy conditions with a light SSW breeze at 3 mph, swell down to 3ft from the west, period 9 seconds. The combined energy is 127 – weak, but those glassy conditions make it clean. It’s surfable but very ordinary. Thursday the 9th morning picks up with a light SE offshore wind at 6 mph, 3ft west swell. Still small, but offshore is nice. Thursday afternoon turns glassy again with a 3ft swell. These two mornings and the Thursday arvo are your best shouts across the whole outlook. The crowd factor here is ‘sometimes’, so expect a few others with the same idea.

Friday the 10th brings a 3ft west swell with a longer period of 11 seconds, which gives it a bit more grunt (combined energy 198), but the wind switches to cross-off from the ESE at 6 mph. Marginal. Saturday the 11th morning is cross-off again with a 3ft WNW swell, period 9 seconds – still small and ordinary.

After that, it properly drops away. From Sunday the 12th onward, the swell dribbles down to 2ft or less, with combined energy in the 20–80 range. Some glassy moments on the Monday the 13th arvo and even a patch of glass on Saturday the 18th, but there’s almost no swell to work with—1.0ft or 0.7ft. The second week is a write-off: tiny, weak, and wonky winds, mostly onshore. There’s a little spike on Sunday the 19th afternoon with 2ft from the WNW, but it’s still poor.

So, the honest take: if you’re desperate for a paddle, the only standouts are Wednesday the 8th morning and Thursday the 9th morning/afternoon. Clean, small waves, but you won’t be getting any barrels. The rest of the 16 days is a long gap of nearly nothing.

Keep an eye on it though – forecasts change.

Rusty

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