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Caves Beach / Swansea Heads Rock Platform

Wed 09 Sep 2026 · Australia/Sydney

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📍 Caves Beach / Swansea Heads Rock Platform
waning crescent · 8%
Weather: Cloudy Wind: SE 139° · 16 km/h Swell: 0.7 m @ 6 s SE Water: 19.3 °C Pressure: 1021.4 hPa → steady
★★★☆☆
Medium Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 6:00 pm
Solunar 0 out of 100 Between windows
Time of day 94 out of 100 Dusk
Tide 100 out of 100 Turning
Wind 35 out of 100 S 29 km/h
Moon 0 out of 100 waning crescent all day
Water temp 89 out of 100 19.3 °C all day
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Activity Forecast
HIGH 70+ MED 50 LOW 30 4a 8a 12p 4p 8p
Day timeline
Major Minor Tide Twilight
First light 5:36 am Last light 6:05 pm
Low 12:10 am High 6:09 am Low 11:49 am High 6:13 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
5:30 pm → 7:00 pm
57
1h 30m
Good
5:00 am → 7:00 am
55
2h
Good
9:30 am → 11:00 am
49
1h 30m
First light
5:36 am
Last light
6:05 pm
Sunrise
6:01 am
Sunset
5:41 pm
Moonrise
4:44 am
Moonset
3:35 pm
Low tide
12:10 am
High tide
6:09 am
Low tide
11:49 am
High tide
6:13 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
11°
↖︎
NW
304°
6 km/h
1am
☀️
11°
↖︎
NW
312°
5 km/h
2am
☀️
11°
↖︎
NW
305°
5 km/h
3am
☁️
10°
↖︎
NW
295°
5 km/h
4am
☁️
10°
←︎
W
291°
6 km/h
5am
☁️
10°
←︎
W
288°
4 km/h
6am
☁️
10°
↖︎
NW
307°
4 km/h
7am
☁️
11°
↖︎
NW
327°
7 km/h
8am
☁️
13°
↑︎
N
346°
7 km/h
9am
☀️
17°
↑︎
N
339°
5 km/h
10am
☀️
19°
↑︎
N
339°
2 km/h
11am
☀️
20°
↘︎
SE
149°
4 km/h
12pm
☁️
20°
↘︎
SE
139°
16 km/h
1pm
☁️
18°
↓︎
S
162°
27 km/h
2pm
☁️
17°
↓︎
S
179°
30 km/h
3pm
🌧️
17°
↓︎
S
176°
31 km/h
4pm
☁️
17°
↓︎
S
176°
31 km/h
5pm
☁️
16°
↓︎
S
178°
30 km/h
6pm
☁️
16°
↓︎
S
176°
29 km/h
7pm
☀️
16°
↓︎
S
175°
28 km/h
8pm
☀️
15°
↓︎
S
181°
28 km/h
9pm
☀️
15°
↓︎
S
182°
30 km/h
10pm
☁️
15°
↓︎
S
179°
27 km/h
11pm
☁️
15°
↓︎
S
182°
27 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~1.4 m SE
12am
1.2 m
@ 7 s
↘︎
SE
Moderate
chop
1am
1.2 m
@ 7 s
↘︎
SE
Moderate
chop
2am
1.2 m
@ 7 s
↘︎
SE
Moderate
chop
3am
1.2 m
@ 7 s
↘︎
SE
Moderate
chop
4am
1.2 m
@ 7 s
↘︎
SE
Moderate
chop
5am
1.1 m
@ 7 s
↘︎
SE
Moderate
chop
6am
1.1 m
@ 7 s
↘︎
SE
Moderate
chop
7am
1.0 m
@ 7 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
8am
0.9 m
@ 6 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
9am
0.8 m
@ 6 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
10am
0.7 m
@ 6 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
11am
0.7 m
@ 6 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
12pm
0.7 m
@ 6 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
1pm
0.7 m
@ 6 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
2pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
3pm
0.6 m
@ 7 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
4pm
0.5 m
@ 7 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
5pm
0.6 m
@ 7 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
6pm
0.6 m
@ 7 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
7pm
0.7 m
@ 7 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
8pm
0.8 m
@ 8 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
9pm
0.9 m
@ 8 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
10pm
1.0 m
@ 9 s
↘︎
SE
Moderate
11pm
1.4 m
@ 9 s
↘︎
SE
Moderate
Water Temp (°C)
→ steady around 19.3°
Sun
6 Sep
19.0°
Mon
7 Sep
19.2°
Tue
8 Sep
19.1°
Wed
9 Sep
19.3°
Thu
10 Sep
19.2°
Fri
11 Sep
19.3°
Sat
12 Sep
19.4°
Sun
13 Sep
19.3°
Mon
14 Sep
19.4°
Tue
15 Sep
19.4°
Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 16 km/h SE (139°).

Wind map data: ECMWF HRES (operational), updated every 6 hours. Not for navigation.