One Mile Beach Military Zone

One Mile Beach Port Stephens has been officially declared a military zone. All three Forces have fortified their positions on the beach and Charlie SUPs are excluded from the adjacent surf zone.


Oh, good thing is that even without the heavy artillery the whole beach is just one big nasty closeout. Anyone entering the waves is bound to get blasted anyway you look at it.

i so thought they were laying out the red carpet for us and and throwing flowers in front of our feet as we walk down the beach and enter the surf

Righto you lot, outta the pool

I checked it a few days back at low tide with a big southerly swell and it was one long closeout. Absolutely nothing breaking off the phantom point. It did not look good for the military who are holding a combined forces comp there this week. There were a couple of SUP right up the beach on what could have been the odd right between some nasty dumpers. It looked that tragic to me that I gave it a miss and went around Fingal Bay and surfed the tiny left in the corner.

My guess is the "banks" might be better in smaller conditions. Strangely, some of th beaches have been looking better at high tide. This is definetly true for Boxy and Fingal.

As Birubi works best in winds NW-NE and is exposed to a SW, moving the surfing there this time of year is a hard call. Again, I would be more hoping One Mile gets better in the smaller early winter groundswells we could be in for.

Just looking at the long range forcast it looks like we might be in for an early week NE. The good thing is the acompanying E swell gets into One Mile at a good angle and could help settle what banks there are.