Turtle Cove Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Honestly, this forecast for Turtle Cove is a pretty quiet one. The whole 16-day window looks like a slow, drawn-out period of small, weak, and messy surf. There’s a big gap from now through the 3rd of September where the waves are mostly knee-high or less. We get a bit of size by the 11th of September, but the wind is set to ruin it.

Let’s start with Turtle Cove (Big Island). It’s a reef and point, fairly consistent, but the swell is tiny. Water temp is running at about 70°, which is pretty normal for this time of year.

Friday, August 28th has a little bit of swell – about 3ft from the SE with an 8-second period. Combined energy is 109. The wind is a light cross-off at 6 mph, so it’ll be clean, but the waves are ordinary and weak. By afternoon the wind picks up to 12 mph, and it’s poor.

The weekend is a bust. Saturday the 29th drops to 2ft with only 80 energy. Light cross wind. Not good. Sunday the 30th is worse, down to 1ft and energy of 28. It’s blowing 16 mph. Not worth it.

Monday the 31st has a tiny 1ft pulse from the SE with light cross-off wind. Energy is 66. You could get a couple of knee-high waves, but it’s very ordinary. That’s the only “maybe” for a few days.

Into September, everything is flat. From the 1st to the morning of the 4th, it’s all under 3ft, with energy between 29 and 109. There’s a brief pulse on the 3rd morning of 3ft from the S with 109 energy, but the wind is a fresh 22 mph cross-off. Clean, but blown wide open.

Friday the 5th of September morning has a little 3ft pulse from ENE with a short 5-second period, energy 72, and it’s cross-shore. Not worth chasing.

Then quiet again until Sunday the 7th of September morning, where we get a tiny 2ft from the E with an 11-second period. The wind is glassy – dead calm. Energy is 91. It’s clean and pretty, but it’s only knee-high. The long period means long waits. If you’re patient, you might get a couple.

The next real event is Thursday the 11th of September. The swell builds into the afternoon to about 4ft from the S with a 7-second period. Energy jumps to 282. That has some push. But the wind is onshore. Morning is 4ft from the SSE with 129 energy, and the wind is onshore and messy. It’s going to be choppy. On Saturday the 12th, we get a similar 4ft from the SW with 190 energy, and the wind is a light cross. That’s the best of a bad bunch, but it’s still lumpy and short-period.

There’s no real standout here. The 11th and 12th of September have some size, but the onshore wind and lumpy conditions make it more of a kite-surfing setup than clean surf. You could get a couple on the 7th morning in glassy conditions, but they’ll be tiny. It’s a long dry run, mate. Forecasts can shift, but for now, just wait.

Rusty.

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