Foam

The swell is coming from the wrong angle for Molhe Leste to wrap in cleanly, but the 9-second period is long enough to bend around the peninsula and deliver punchy peeling rights off the east jetty, and offshore northerly wind is shaping the faces nicely. You're looking at thigh to stomach high waves on a falling tide, which means the mellow sand-bottom character of this spot stays forgiving for the next few hours. The groundswell dominance and light offshore wind make it worth the dawn patrol call.

By mid-afternoon the swell shrinks to ankle to thigh and the wind swings northwest while strengthening to around 19 kilometres per hour, so the session winds down fast. If you're out now, make the most of the next few hours before it fades.

Tomorrow morning looks genuinely good, with knee to stomach high waves and the best window early before any wind swing. The swell angle should track better by then and give Molhe Leste the west to northwest angle it favours, though the forecast still carries the usual model uncertainty a day out. If it comes together as predicted, it will outshine today.