The name of the spot would be suitable for Oregon. [Oregon has Cape Foulweather; this is Cape Foulwind.  Both were named by Capt. Cook, the one who found Hawai'i.]

 

 

Nearby.  [Westport; jetty is to the left]

Edited: 05/10/2016 at 06:25 AM by ww

MAN if this is the cape, WE NEED TO START LIKE A MASSIVE PETITION TO MAKE THIS SURFABLE!! Has anyone ever tried anything like this before?

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Wavy shore.

 

New Zealand Cape foulwind

Yup.  West coast, South Island.  There's a cement plant just out of sight.  

here is a pic

Doesn't look very accessible.  One road labeled private, another one that looks like it's deliberately kept full of weeds.  

Edited: 05/15/2016 at 04:38 PM by ww

They get waves , it's between 9 mile beach and Westport breakwater which is double overhead with light wind ,forecast to go 6-8 times overhead . I'll have to ask my friend who lives in Auckland if he has ever surfed there . Looks like farm country , more sheep than people .

My second photo is Westport breakwater (north side).  Substantial swell for them Thurs-Sun, whopping for Piha and the other Auckland Tasman beaches.  

They get a lot of good surf , crowds don't seem to much of a problem either. I see a bit of it as my buddy posts regularly on facebook.

Westport seems between tourist magnets, the fjords of Milford and Doubtful Sounds to the south and the amazing sounds up around Picton, where the mountainous landscape is sinking into the sea for tectonic reasons.  

 

 

I want to take the Family there , but I'm still a couple years out from it. This Spring's trip to San Francisco and Yosemite was only a 1/3 the plane ride and my kids aren't quite there. I want to go for a full month if possible , otherwise 3 weeks.

Should be in the Greymouth area for a day, fairly soon.  Nikau palms and tree ferns.  Opposite direction, mouth of small river.

 

Edited: 05/10/2016 at 08:44 AM by ww

Looks super section-y/ closed out....

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Surfline is showing lots of surf now, flat (both Tasman and Pacific sides of the South Island) at the end of May...

Of course their model doesn't go out that far.  For today, they think 63º water at Westport, 59º at Taylors Mistake.  

Surf-Forecast is a bit cooler, 61º water, 10' waves, 14 sec, cross/onshore wind, 10 mph.  

Piha, in the Auckland area, is 66º with apparently 55º air.  

Amazing the details the government-funded weather contractor provides.    20ºC water?  Spring suit.

Edited: 05/15/2016 at 04:40 PM by ww

Looks promising for the end of next week, except my right arm is still semi-worthless, poor range of motion.  Swimming, I can do a fakey backstroke, that's about all.  I'm getting more impressed by those water photogs who haul pretty big cameras behind them.  

All sorts of wave-making going on in the late southern hemisphere fall.  Surf-Forecast for Rapahoe, on the South Island's west coast north of Greymouth.  NZ MetService, same general area (gale warnings today).

Edited: 05/22/2016 at 08:26 AM by ww

Rapahoe, 3 pm, wind calm, Sky just cleared, no wind but surf is a big mess, maybe 3 m.  Should be a structural rip somewhere.  Also high tide, and no beach to walk on.

I can't upload photos, but liked the local inlet. On the inside of the jetty, several people were selecting driftwood.  Atop the jetty, along with a road and parking, a sign dedicating a native plant garden, New Zealand "flax" and shrubs.  No one, understandably, in the water.

The supermarkets here sell real cream, not the ultrapasteurized stuff.

DP, surf maybe 6', offshore breeze, pretty clean.  For a summer Floridian, the air, at 5 C, is too cold.  Even if snow yesterday was fun.

The likes of photog Chris Burkard and Brett Barley would like it.  Now for Nikau palms and poldocarps.

That's podocarps, as in podocarpus hedges.