Big Sur Rivermouth Surf Report & Forecast

The driftwood-strewn beach here is safeguarded from all wind directions except W, so it blows offshore almost every day of the year. The prevailing NW winds whip around and shoot directly into the oncoming waves -- sometimes too fiercely to grant you wave entry. The flow from the Big Sur River does a fine job of maintaining the gravelly sandbar in its correct alignment here, resulting in a semi-point setup with fast, thin rights and shorter, mushier lefts burgering into the rivermouth itself. Be... Read more