Fence posts, Australia

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Carnarvon, is 113 km away.

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Facing, offshore wind, exposure, level and swell range are estimated. Facts: verified, surf details estimated.

The spot faces NW (302°), so it takes swell from the NW. The wind blows offshore from the SE (122°). It is sheltered to the open swell. It suits intermediate surfers and up, because of a steep sea floor. It works in 3–12 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves steeply: 10 m deep about 100 m out (1 in 10). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would break hollow. The sea is about 22°C in September, its coldest month (2 mm shorty), and 27°C in April, its warmest (no wetsuit). For intermediate surfers the best month is usually June, with about 3 good days in 7. From the weather of past years. No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Carnarvon, is 113 km away. Within 5 km we also list 1 surf spot.

Water about 22°C: 2 mm shorty. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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Forecast and score for expert surfers at Fence posts, each day
Day	Score for experts	Swell	Energy	Wind	Temp
Sun 18Oct	52, good	8 ft12 shollow	1,444kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 8 knots, offshore	27°C
Mon 19Oct	45, fair	7 ft10 shollow	938kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 9 knots, offshore	29°C
Tue 20Oct	18, too small	5 ft10 shollow	426kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 8 knots	25°C
Wed 21Oct	36, fair	6 ft13 shollow	1,039kJ	wind from the south-south-west, 8 knots	26°C
Thu 22Oct	49, good	8 ft13 shollow	2,056kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 14 knots, offshore	27°C
Fri 23Oct	52, good	8 ft13 shollow	1,945kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 14 knots, offshore	26°C
Sat 24Oct	66, good	9 ft11 shollow	1,609kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 18 knots, offshore	28°C
Sun 25Oct	58, good	8 ft9 shollow	1,118kJ	wind from the south-east, 17 knots, offshore	30°C
Mon 26Oct	29, too small	5 ft7 shollow	211kJ	wind from the south-east, 15 knots, offshore	34°C
Tue 27Oct	17, too small	5 ft8 shollow	222kJ	wind from the south-south-west, 5 knots	32°C
Wed 28Oct	0, poor	–	–	–	–

Day scores here are the conditions out of 80; a trip's score on the results is the same conditions out of 100. The journey never scores. The forecast reaches about 10 days. Energy is the swell's power in kJ per metre of wave, from its height and interval: it grows with the square of each, so a long-period swell hits far harder than a short one the same size. The word under the swell is the wave's shape, our estimate from the sea floor. Wind is in knots: 10 kn is about 19 km/h. The arrow points where the wind blows to; offshore wind, blowing from the land out to sea, is green and says so.

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6 nights from Mon 19 Oct, leaving from Chicago, for expert surfers. Change dates

Mon 19 Oct
Travel out
No way there we can work out.
Tue 20 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 34 of 80.
Wed 21 Oct
Surf Fence posts
Best 11:00 to 14:00 local time: 6 ft at 13 s, wind 8 kn (16 km/h).
Thu 22 Oct
Surf Fence posts
Best 08:00 to 11:00 local time: 8 ft at 13 s, offshore wind.
Fri 23 Oct
Surf Fence posts
Best 08:00 to 11:00 local time: 8 ft at 13 s, offshore wind.
Sat 24 Oct
Surf Fence posts
Best 08:00 to 11:00 local time: 9 ft at 11 s, offshore wind.
Sun 25 Oct
Travel home
No way there we can work out.

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