The Spit Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, cobber, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at the next couple of weeks for The Spit.

To be straight with you, this isn’t a period that’s going to have you setting the alarm early every day. We’ve got a lot of small, junky surf on the menu with winds that are going to mess things up more often than not. The swell energy is mostly weak to moderate, hovering around the 55 to 95 mark for the first stretch. There are a few moments where it pokes its head up, but you’re going to have to pick your moments carefully.

The story for the next week or so is about tiny swell and onshore or cross-shore winds. Friday the 21st kicks off with a poor, choppy 3ft of east swell at 7 seconds, and the breeze is cross-on. It’s not worth getting wet. Saturday morning the 22nd sees a slight improvement with a clean 2ft and a light offshore, but it’s still very ordinary. That window closes quickly as the wind swings around. We get a couple of glassy windows on Tuesday the 25th morning and again on Friday the 28th morning, with the swell holding around 3-3ft. These will be your best, most user-friendly waves of the first week, but they’re not standouts by any stretch. By Thursday the 27th, the swell bumps up to 4-5ft but the wind is howling from the southeast, making it a complete mess. That’s kite-surfing conditions, not surfing conditions. If you’re a beginner, those mornings with glassy conditions and sub-3ft surf are your window.

Now, for the one true highlight. It’s further out, so we need to talk about dates. Mark your calendar for the morning of Monday, the 1st of September. The wind is forecast to be almost nothing, glassy, and we’ve got a clean 3ft of east swell with the period pushing up to 9 seconds. The energy reading jumps to 252, which is the strongest we see in the whole run. It’s a river break, so it’ll be handling the east swell well. The water temp is currently 68°, which is about average for this time of year, so a good wetsuit is your friend.

The other window worth a mention is the morning of Wednesday the 26th of August. It’s not as good as the September 1st call, but a 3ft east swell with an offshore wind gives you a clean option. After the 1st, the swell drops back down and the periods get longer, but the winds stay messy. The following week looks promising but less certain, with the swell around 3ft and a longer 10-second period, but cross-shore winds are likely to be the main issue.

So, the bottom line is to be patient. There’s one solid morning coming up on the 1st of September. Don’t sleep on that one. Before that, it’s a case of grabbing the small, clean moments when they appear.

Signing off,
Rusty

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