Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Circa 1980

Welcome,

This is all new for me so I will try my best to keep you informed on what is happening with the surf in Buxton and on Hatteras Island. If you’re looking for a daily report, check out SwellInfo.com.  I will be doing a daily morning report on their site and I will still do the daily report on 252-995-4646.

I used to do a monthly report for the Surfer Magazine publication “The Surf Report”. I found it somewhat interesting to compare other locations and see how the surf compared to here during the same time. Hopefully some of you will like to compare in the same way. I will try to post weekly info and maybe even more frequent if conditions exist for a change. Wave height and quality are always viewed differently through different eyes but I hope you enjoy the posts. Lately we have not been in a very good pattern for surf.  Lots of fronts with NW winds and they just aren’t generating much swell.

The NW winds have been cold and the water temps have been cold (low 40’s) so I don’t have a whole lot to write about. We finally got a couple of warm days and yesterday even though the surf was really small the day was so nice I just had to paddle out. I only lasted about 45 minutes not cause of the cold but there just wasn’t enough surf.   – Scott