Foam

The swell angle is right and the groundswell is clean, but size is marginal and a cross-shore wind from the north is flattening the faces. You'll find waist to stomach waves with hollow sections if you time it around mid-tide, but the wrapping right-hander that makes Coxos famous needs more push and offshore wind to really shine. Dawn patrol works because conditions are at their cleanest now before the wind picks up, though don't expect the barrel-to-barrel magic this break can deliver.

By mid-afternoon the northwesterly wind will swing onshore and strengthen to nearly 20 kilometres per hour, which will close off any shape the swell still has. Today's window shuts.

Tomorrow morning looks properly good, with the swell filling in and a better angle feeding the point. The forecast reads a solid rating for the dawn hours before wind influence kicks in again, though the Atlantic keeps its secrets and the model may not have the exact shape locked yet.