Snapper Rocks Surf Report & Forecast
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Current Surf Conditions
Condition Rating
Surf Height
4-6FT
Chest to overhead
Swell
Wind
4KTSSSW
5kts gusts, Offshore
Tide
Temperature
68°F
2mm wetsuit
Gold Coast Forecast
Max Stanley-Jones •Today
Punchy E swell and light SSW for the AM. Drop in size and winds open up options out of shelters.
The swell trains moved east, it's another good day of waves! Tops of the points are still getting overhead to well OH sets at dawn and looking like heaps of fun. Best get out there with the morning low if you're chasing size, once the tide fills in for the arvo we'll see a drop into the head highish zone.
Southerly winds are hanging about but they'll be the calmest they've been in days. If you don't mind a bit of lump and bump there are some solid options along the Northern stretches.
Snapper Rocks Surf Forecast
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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