Towradgi Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you—looking at the next couple of weeks for Towradgi, it’s a pretty bleak stretch for a while. There’s a run of tiny, messy, and just plain ordinary surf that’ll have you checking your board for dust. We’re talking days and days of small, cross-onshore slop with barely enough energy to push you around. It’s not going to be worth paddling out for much at all until we get to the very end of the month. Once we hit the 31st of August, though, things finally switch on.

Right now, starting Sunday the 16th, the water’s sitting at 64°, which is about average for this time of year. Not warm, not cold—just standard. The surf, though, is poor. A small 3ft south swell with an 11-second period is getting chopped up by a cross-onshore wind. It’s a bit of a tease, really. That pattern holds through the week—Monday sees a tiny 2ft south pulse, all rippled, then Tuesday morning has a moment of glassy calm but with only 3ft of short-period east-southeast slop. It’s surfable, but you’ll be scratching for a wave, and the conditions are still ordinary. The energy’s weak too—just 153 to 268 units, nothing that’ll have your heart racing.

Into the middle of the week, the swell gets even smaller. Wednesday afternoon, a moderate cross-onshore wind and only 3ft of east-southeast swell—again, poor. Thursday stays small, with weak energy dropping below 100. Friday and Saturday are pure flatness and bad winds—honestly, you’d be better off checking the tide pools. By Sunday the 23rd, it’s still tiny, and a fresh cross-onshore breeze makes it lumpy as anything. The energy is up and down, but never enough to matter. I’m telling you, there is a big block of nothing from the 16th all the way through the 30th. It’s a solid two weeks of not much, unless you’re desperate.

Now, the one bright spot—and it’s a proper one—is the final day of the period. On Monday the 31st of August, things finally fire. A solid south swell rolls in, picking up to 8ft in the morning with a period of 9 seconds, and the energy jumps way up to 1032 units. By the afternoon, it’s even better: 10ft of south swell, 1791 units of energy, and a clean offshore west-southwest breeze. This is the standout of the whole outlook. This is not for beginners—when it’s over 8ft, you need to know what you’re doing. The wind will be offshore, so it should be clean and lined up, and this reef of yours should handle it. It’s still a week and a half away, so treat it as promising but don’t book the day off yet—long-range calls are always less certain.

So keep it on your radar, but don’t bother waxing up before then. The 31st is the day, and it looks like one for the experienced crew. I’d be getting excited about that one.

Stay salty,
Rusty

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