Westport-The Groins Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you – looking at the Westport-The Groins (Westport) stretch, this isn’t a week to be planning your life around. The whole 16-day window is a bit of a grind, with only a few brief moments where you’d even bother waxing up. The first real chance of anything halfway decent doesn’t show until Thursday the 6th, and even then, it’s pretty ordinary.

The water’s sitting at 65° – that’s a solid 6° warmer than usual for this time of year, which is a bit of a standout. You’ll notice it immediately, no need for a thick suit.

The pattern is a mess of northwesterly winds, mostly cross-on or choppy, and the swell is all over the place. The first few days are a write-off. Tuesday the 4th and Wednesday the 5th are full of weak, short-period WNW swell (3ft to 4ft) with onshore winds, just messy. Don’t bother.

Thursday the 6th, we finally get a morning with a light cross-offshore breeze out of the WSW. The swell is 4ft at 8 seconds, and the combined energy is moderate (255). It’s clean, but it’s not gonna be world-class. It’s surfable, but you’ll be working for it. Friday the 7th goes straight back to poor, and the weekend is a flat, long-period SW pulse that’s just too small at 1ft to do anything with, even if the period is 16-18 seconds. That’s a cruel tease.

There’s a dead stretch from Friday the 7th through Monday the 10th that’s essentially a write-off. Then, Tuesday the 11th and Wednesday the 12th show a little more promise. The morning of the 11th has clean conditions with a light WSW cross-off at 4ft, and the 12th is a bit better – 5ft in the morning and 4ft in the afternoon, clean, with energy picking up to 391 and 368. This is the best of the first week, but it’s still just “ordinary.”

The swell starts to push up a bit from Thursday the 13th, hitting 5ft to 6ft, but the winds stay cross or cross-on, so it’s still going to be lumpy and not worth the paddle. The big jump comes Saturday the 15th with 6ft at 9 seconds, but the cross-on wind is going to chop it up. That’s the biggest swell of the window, but it’s not going to be clean. It’s a real shame.

The second week falls away again. The 17th and 18th are back to small, long-period SW groundswell (2ft to 2ft) with onshore winds, and the 19th brings a 4ft WNW swell but with fresh cross-onshore winds. Nothing to get excited about.

So, overall, the standout window is the morning of Wednesday the 12th. That’s your one true opportunity for a session that’s clean and has a bit of push. It’s still not big, but it’s the best on offer. After that, the 15th has the size, but the wind will rape it. For a beginner, anything over 5ft is too much, so the 13th and 14th will be pushing it, and the 15th is definitely for more experienced heads only. The longer period swells from the SW are better for a point or reef, but here at the jetty, they’ll be straight and pretty useless.

Honestly, if you’re desperate, keep an eye on the 12th. Otherwise, this stretch looks like it’ll be more fun for the kite crew than the paddle crew, especially on those bigger, wind-blown days. Keep the faith, it won’t be like this forever.

Rusty.

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