Damp Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s talk about Damp.

First up, the water temp is sitting at about 62°, which is pretty much spot on for this time of year, nothing unusual there.

Now, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it – this is a tough run. If you’re looking at the forecast from now, it’s a long, dry spell. We’re talking many days with zero surf on offer. The first tiny bit of life doesn’t show up until Sunday, July 12th, and even then it’s desperate. There’s a few days of small, weak stuff that pops up here and there, but honestly, for most of this 16-day stretch, the ocean is barely breathing.

There is only one spot that even makes the list, and that’s Damp itself. Being an inconsistent sandbar, it needs everything to line up, and it just doesn’t for almost all of this period.

The first little flicker is on Sunday the 12th in the afternoon. We get a tiny 0.7ft swell from the north with a super short period of just 3 seconds. The wind goes offshore from the west at 12 mph, so the surface will look clean. The combined wave energy is a measly (1), so it’s incredibly weak.

If you’re desperate for a paddle on that Sunday arvo, you might catch a knee-high ripple, but that’s about as generous as I can be. The wind is good, but there’s next to no swell to work with.

There’s another very small bump on Thursday the 16th. The swell picks up a touch – 2ft to 2ft from the east-northeast, with a period of 4 seconds. On Thursday afternoon, we get a gentle offshore wind from the west at 9 mph, and the combined energy creeps up to (17). The waves will be clean, but still tiny and weak. It’s the closest we get to something you could call a "surf," but only just.

After that, there’s a few more days with tiny 1ft to 2ft swells, mostly with clean wind, but the energy is always low (between 1 and 16). Nothing ever gets above waist-high for the entire forecast.

Look, the best on offer here – and I use the term loosely – is Thursday the 16th afternoon. For a beginner, that tiny offshore bump might be okay for a practice session on a foamie. But if you’re an experienced surfer, there is simply nothing to get excited about. The swell is tiny, the periods are short, and the setup at this sandbar is just not firing.

Honestly, this stretch looks more like a kitesurfer’s window with those consistent cross-off winds, because the paddle surfing is a write-off. For the rest of the time, it’s flat. A long, blank run like this is pretty normal for Damp when it’s this inconsistent.

Rusty.

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