Turners Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right from the get-go, I gotta be straight with you: the next week and a half or so is gonna be a bit of a grind for surf at Turners Beach. We've got a long stretch of nothing special coming up, a real flat spell that’ll test your patience. The first decent chance of a wave that’s worth paddling out for doesn’t show its face until Thursday the 14th, and even then it’s a building swell. Before that, it's all small, short-period, and messy.

Starting this Friday the 7th, we’re looking at ankle to knee-high dribble with a cross-shore breeze. The energy is weak, and it's just not doing anything. Saturday the 8th stays in that same vein, a little bump but nothing with any push. The wind is light, but the swell is just too weak and short-period to make anything of it. We head into Sunday and Monday with the swell trying to pick up a bit, but the wind goes onshore and it just turns into a choppy mess. It’s all for nothing with that bump on it.

The middle of next week stays pretty grim. Tuesday the 12th is poor, but keep an eye on Wednesday afternoon. The wind goes glassy and the swell bumps up to 3ft, but it's from the NNE with a short 7-second period. It’ll be surfable but super ordinary, a real grovel session for the desperate.

Then, we get our window. Thursday the 13th starts to show some life, and by Friday the 14th, we finally see something with some grunt. The swell jumps to 6ft from the SSE with a proper 13-second period, and the energy readings are strong. This is the standout of the whole run. The wind is light and cross-off in the morning, keeping it clean. This is the one to point for. It’s a solid, powerful groundswell, and the size is on for sure. It might be a bit much for the groms and beginners, but for the rest of us, this is where it’s at. The afternoon stays good with a moderate offshore wind and still a solid 6ft of swell.

The weekend following that has some leftovers. Saturday the 15th is still fun with 5ft waves, but the wind is stronger. Sunday the 16th sees it ease down, and then we’re back into a smaller, trickier pattern with short-period windswell for the early part of the following week. The long-range stuff out around the 21st and 22nd shows some more size, but the wind is mostly onshore for it, turning things messy. The one thing I will say is that the 22nd has some promise with a glassy morning and a 4ft ENE swell, but that’s a long way off and forecasts will change. Keep the faith, there’s a window on the 14th that’s worth the wait.

Rusty.

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