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Clean offshore at 30 km/h, solid 3.2m @ 10s swell.

Swell Wind
Wind 30 km/h SSE Swell SW — Spot faces WNW
Wind makes or breaks it, bru. Offshore (blowing land to sea) grooms the faces clean and glassy — lukka. Onshore chops it all into mush. Under about 10 km/h it hardly matters — basically glass.Wind ↓ 30 km/h SSE Offshore
3.2m @ 10s SW reads as: a 3.2 metre swell, 10 seconds between each wave, marching in from the SW. The @ is just "at".

Period is the secret, boet: 12s+ is proper groundswell — organised lines with real punch. Under 10s is local windswell that folds quick. Same size, longer period = way more klap.

Two numbers, two different things. The metres is the swell way out at sea. The feet is the wave face you'll actually be looking at when you paddle out — measured trough to crest on the side you ride, the way Surfline and every SA beach report calls it. It is not the old Hawaiian back-of-the-wave scale, which reads about half.

Rough guide: 3ft waist-to-chest · 5ft shoulder-to-head · 6ft+ overhead, and you'll know about it, ekse.
Swell
↓ 3.2m @ 10s SW≈ 11ft face
Size and period smashed into one number — the real 'is it worth it?' gauge, ekse.< 40 kJ basically flat40–100 small100–180 fun180–450 solid — punchy450+ heavy — vy with respectLong period klaps way harder than the same size at short period. See 'Swell shadow'? A headland or bay is blocking part of the swell — the number here is what actually reaches the spot, the offshore one is what's out at sea.Energy 468 kJ Heavy
2nd Swell ↓ 0.8m @ 13s WSW
Pushing in or draining out, and when it turns. Most banks have a favourite tide — right tide and the spot comes alive, wrong tide and it goes fat or dumpy. Time your session, china.Tide Low / Falling — Low in 1h 10m
Water 16°C · 3/2
UV Index Low — just a touch of sunscreen.
Scope it 30+ min — read the sets, rips & entry
Don't paddle out solo.
Trust, but verify — that's what the cam's for, boet.
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Beach Intermediate
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Surf Spot Details

Break:
Beach
Skill Level:
Intermediate
Best Tide:
Mid Tide
Sharky:
Nope
Best Season:
Summer, Spring
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