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 intermediate surfers at Fence posts, each day
Day	Score for intermediates	Swell	Energy	Wind	Temp
Mon 19Oct	0, too big	7 ft11 shollow	980kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 11 knots	28°C
Tue 20Oct	34, poor	5 ft10 shollow	438kJ	wind from the south, 12 knots	25°C
Wed 21Oct	14, poor	6 ft13 shollow	893kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 11 knots, offshore	26°C
Thu 22Oct	0, too big	8 ft13 shollow	1,899kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 12 knots	27°C
Fri 23Oct	0, too big	8 ft13 shollow	2,089kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 17 knots	26°C
Sat 24Oct	0, too big	8 ft10 shollow	1,308kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 19 knots	28°C
Sun 25Oct	8, poor	5 ft11 shollow	607kJ	wind from the south, 14 knots	33°C
Mon 26Oct	33, poor	5 ft7 shollow	227kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 13 knots, offshore	27°C
Tue 27Oct	30, poor	4 ft6 shollow	70kJ	wind from the south, 3 knots	24°C
Wed 28Oct	36, fair	3 ft7 shollow	92kJ	wind from the south, 6 knots	22°C

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 today, leaving from Chicago, for intermediate surfers. Change dates

Mon 19 Oct
Travel out
No way there we can work out.
Tue 20 Oct
Surf Fence posts
Best 08:00 to 11:00 local time: 5 ft at 10 s, wind 12 kn (22 km/h).
Wed 21 Oct
Surf Fence posts
Best 08:00 to 11:00 local time: 6 ft at 13 s, offshore wind.
Thu 22 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 0 of 80.
Fri 23 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 0 of 80.
Sat 24 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 0 of 80.
Sun 25 Oct
Travel home
No way there we can work out.

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