Cabarita

Surf Guide

Cabarita is a long, sectiony right breaking at various points along the two headlands. It's highly dependent on sand placement; while it can be a bit of a burger, it can also come to resemble Burleigh Heads on its better days, with a long, fast, hollow section running right across the front of the smaller outcrop and peeling further down the bay. Off the bigger point, the wave tends to be superficially attractive, but inclined to mush out a bit unless it's big or the sand is right on target. Both these sections are sheltered from the classic fall/winter southerly wind, and nicely offshore in a southwesterly to westerly. On the other side of the headland is a classic 'back beach' -- a less-frequented beach behind a well-known pointbreak - a clean, curving beach that runs for a couple miles down to the next headland, Hastings Point. There's usually good beachbreak peaks scattered up and down the stretch, especially close in to this northern headland, where the waves are protected from the near-permanent summertime NE seabreeze.