Wurtulla Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you. Looking at the next stretch, we’ve got a bit of a flat spell to wade through before things get moving again. There’s a gap at the start with nothing worth paddling out for. We’re talking several days of onshore slop and tiny leftovers. It’s not going to be pretty, but the charts are showing some life kicking in later.

For the first part of the run, from the 27th of August right through to the end of the month, it’s poor. Thursday the 27th has a weak 4ft SE swell, but it’s a cross-on mess with a light chop. The energy is weak, sitting at 166, and it’s just not doing anything for us. Friday the 28th tries to step up a little with a bit more south in the swell and 8-second period, energy climbs to 293, but it’s still cross-shore and bumpy. You’d be fighting it for nothing. The weekend stays in that same rut – Sunday the 30th brings a touch more size, 5ft, but that fresh SSE breeze makes it lumpy and poor. Basically, through the first week, the only thing consistent is the lack of quality at Wurtulla.

We finally see the wind drop a little around the 2nd and 3rd of September, but the swell is tiny and weak. Glassy conditions on Thursday the 3rd morning, but it’s only 2ft of weak NE windswell, energy at a paltry 64. It’s surfable if you’re truly desperate, but it's very ordinary. That theme carries through into the next couple of days. We get some clean windows – Friday the 4th morning is dead calm with a bit of NE swell, and Saturday the 5th morning is glassy too, but we’re talking knee-high slop at best. The energy readings are low, and there’s no push in it.

Now, for the standout. Look towards Wurtulla for Sunday the 6th of September, but that’s not it either – the morning is poor, and the afternoon gets messy with a rising NNE wind. The real promise is in the second week. We’ve got a pulse of proper groundswell arriving around Tuesday the 8th of September afternoon. The period jumps to 13 seconds, and the energy just about triples to 348. That’s a real signal. It’s showing a 3ft SSE swell, but that long period will be the key. This is the one to watch. It’s a longer period for Wurtulla, so the beach break might get a little straight, but the push and the power will be there.

That pulse clears out and builds. Later in the week, the 9th and the 11th of September, we see the swell really start to fill in, with heights pushing over 8ft. The energy readings are high – we're talking 621 on the 9th morning and 639 on the 11th morning. But here’s the rub: the wind is cross-onshore from the SE every time it gets big. It’s going to be a stormy, choppy mess. All that energy, all that size, and it’s going to be a battle. For a beginner, anything over 5ft is going to be too much, and we’re well over that. This setup, with that much swell and a strong onshore wind on a beach break, honestly looks more suited to the kitesurfers than the paddle surfers.

So, to sum it up. There is no standout perfect day in this window. The best of a bad bunch is the Tuesday the 8th of September afternoon. That long-period swell, even at 3ft, is going to have some power, and we might luck into a cleaner window before the wind howls. It's not massive, but it’s the most promising. The first 8 days are a write-off for anything decent. The bigger swells later on are all windblown. It’s a frustrating pattern, but that’s the coast for you. Forecasts can shift.

Keep an eye on the charts, lads. This one could change.

Rusty.

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