Type: sand over reef
Direction: peak – right & left
Length of wave: 60 – 150m
Offshore: SE-NE
Wave size: 1 – 6ft
Tide: medium
Skill level: beginner – expert
Comments: This fun wave sits inside a beautiful bay, and gets very crowded over the summer months. The right usually can hold more swell than the left, both can throw nice barrels.
Type: reef
Direction: left, short right
Length of wave: 40 – 100m
Offshore: N
Wave size: 2 – 8ft
Tide: low – medium
Skill level: expert
Comments: The Ledge is a thick barreling wave, one of the best inside Innes N.P. Can get busy on weekends and attracts some very good surfers – bring your “A” game.
Type: sand over rock
Direction: right, left
Length of wave: 10 – 40m
Offshore: NE-NW
Wave size: 2 – 8ft
Tide: medium
Skill level: intermediate – expert
Comments: A heavy shorebreak with a second and third outer reef that come into play as swell increases. This beach has some of the highest spinal injury rates in the country.
Type: reef
Direction: right
Length of wave: 40 – 80m
Offshore: N-WSW
Wave size: 2 – 10ft
Tide: medium
Skill level: beginner – experienced
Comments: When strong W-SW winds destroy 4 – 6′ waves along the Middleton – Goolwa stretch over winter, you’ll often find a crowd here. The numbers thin considerably once it gets over 4 – 5′, and becomes thicker and heavier.
Type: beack breaks – sand over rock
Direction: right, sometimes left
Length of wave: 40 – 100m
Offshore: E-NE
Wave size: 2 – 6ft
Tide: medium – high
Skill level: advanced
Comments: Perfect sand placement can create a heavy, good quality right hander at the Western end of the beach. More often Petrel’s is just a closeout, notorious for the number of people who have drowned there.
Type: point
Direction: left
Length of wave: 40 – 100m
Offshore: N-NW
Wave size: 6 – 12ft+
Tide: medium – high
Skill level: advanced
Comments: A heavy, scary, lonely spot that dishes up thick barrels in solid winter swells. You’ll probably need a boat to get to it unless you fancy a spooky paddle across a sharky channel from King’s beach.
