Snapper Rocks Surf Report & Forecast
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Current Surf Conditions
Condition Rating
Surf Height
3-4FT+
Waist to shoulder
Swell
Wind
5KTSWSW
6kts gusts, Offshore
Tide
Temperature
71°F
1mm wetsuit
Gold Coast Forecast
Anthony Spinks •Today
A fun sized bump in ENE swell. Variable local winds in between the rain showers.
ENE wind-swell has bumped up the size a touch. Chest to occ head high across the more exposed breaks., waist to chest high or so for the tops of the points. It's looking average but there's a surfable wave there for shore.
Local winds are the main factor, swirling around in between the rain showers. Currently NW down the S coast, trending lightish onshore E winds up the N coast. Expecting a lightish onshore flow through the afternoon.
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Snapper Rocks Surf Guide
On the north side of the point begins the extraordinary line of Snapper Rocks, Rainbow Bay and Greenmount Point, almost a mile of right sandbar pointbreak and probably the single most crowded surfing area in the world. The waves begin at Snapper, a gnarly outcrop of old lava rock set sideways to the line of coast; often they start with a dramatic, backwashy takeoff behind the rock, and run past another smaller outcrop known as Little Marley Point a couple hundred yards down the line before openi... Read more