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Waterwheels, Australia

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Coast north of Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia, February 2021
Quarry Bay. Photo: Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Waterwheels

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

The spot faces SW (245°), so it takes swell from the SW. The wind blows offshore from the NE (65°). It is exposed to the open swell. It suits expert surfers. It works in 3–20 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves gently: 10 m deep about 700 m out (1 in 72). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would spill softly. The sea is about 18°C in September, its coldest month (2 mm shorty), and 21°C in March, its warmest (2 mm shorty). For expert surfers the best months are usually April and May, with about 4 good days in 7. From the weather of past years. The town to stay in is Augusta, 6.5 km away (about 15 min by car). Within 5 km we also list 1 surf spot.

Water about 18°C: 2 mm shorty. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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Forecast

Waterwheels does not suit intermediates. This is the forecast for experts, so you can see what it does.

The score for experts, coloured as on the area pages:GoodFairPoorToo bigToo small

DayScoreExpertSwellEnergyWindTemp
Sun 18Oct1911 ft10 smushy2,316kJ16°C
Mon 19Oct299 ft8 smushy1,012kJ16°C
Tue 20Oct1811 ft11 smushy2,626kJ18°C
Wed 21Oct2014 ft12 smushy5,726kJ18°C
Thu 22Oct2216 ft11 smushy5,559kJ15°C
Fri 23Oct1914 ft11 smushy4,589kJ13°C
Sat 24Oct2414 ft10 smushy3,957kJ14°C
Sun 25Oct209 ft9 smushy1,159kJ16°C
Mon 26Oct439 ft8 smushy853kJ16°C
Tue 27Oct507 ft10 ssoft1,019kJ16°C
Wed 28Oct0––––

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.

Your trip, day by day

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

  1. Mon 19 Oct
    Travel out

    No way there we can work out.

  2. Tue 20 Oct
    Surf Augusta Rivermouth

    Best 17:00 to 20:00 local time: 11 ft at 11 s, offshore wind.

  3. Wed 21 Oct
    Surf Augusta Rivermouth

    Best 14:00 to 17:00 local time: 13 ft at 13 s, offshore wind.

  4. Thu 22 Oct
    Surf Augusta Rivermouth

    Best 11:00 to 14:00 local time: 14 ft at 11 s, wind 14 kn (26 km/h).

  5. Fri 23 Oct
    Rest day

    Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 30 of 80.

  6. Sat 24 Oct
    Surf Augusta Rivermouth

    Best 14:00 to 17:00 local time: 14 ft at 10 s, wind 13 kn (24 km/h).

  7. Sun 25 Oct
    Travel home

    No way there we can work out.

The plan picks the best of 3 spots near Augusta each day: Augusta Rivermouth, Stormie and Flinders Bay, Waterwheels.

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