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Tavarua.
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· updated 13 hours agoSSW swell at 14-15 seconds fades from 1.8m Friday dawn to 1.2m Saturday evening under moderate to light ESE wind. Sunday marks the week’s peak with SSW swell at 15 seconds topping out at 1.1m at dawn under glassy W→ESE wind before easing to 0.8m by evening. Mid-week sees a slight build as SSW/SE swell at 13-18 seconds rises to 1.1m Wednesday under light SSE wind, then to 1.4m Thursday under moderate SE wind with heavy wind-sea chopping the lineup. The pattern intensifies Friday through Sunday with SSW to SW swell building from 1.5m to 1.9m at 15-19 seconds under blown-out SE→ESE wind, peaking Sunday evening before dropping to 1.5m Monday under continued blown-out conditions. Tuesday shows
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About Tavarua
Tavarua is a heart-shaped, 29-acre coral island in Fiji’s Mamanuca archipelago, off the western edge of Viti Levu. The headline is Cloudbreak, a long left over a shallow reef pass roughly 1.6 km south of the island, the eastern edge of an open coral pass that takes Southern Hemisphere swell head-on. Restaurants fires off the resort beach and runs about half the size of Cloudbreak. Tavarua Rights, Swimming Pools, Wilkes Pass, and Namotu Lefts all sit within a short boat ride. One of the most concentrated lineups of world-class waves in the South Pacific.
Peak runs April through October, the Fijian winter, when storms in the Southern Ocean south of Australia send long-period south to south-west swell uninterrupted at the reef. Cloudbreak likes it best at period 17 s and up, classic swell territory. Restaurants holds up on shorter, more westerly mid-period angles. Heights run from chest-high on a soft day to 4 m+ on the days locals call XXL. Dominant wind is the east to south-east trade, offshore at Cloudbreak and Restaurants. Dawn is glass; the trade builds through the morning.
Water sits at 26 to 28 °C year-round. Boardies and a rashie. The reef is the hazard. Cloudbreak runs over a sharp coral ledge that goes near-dry at low tide; Restaurants is even shallower and almost dries through the inside. Both demand a confident overhead paddle. Boat access only, from Nadi marina or the resort dock. On a soft day, run Wilkes Pass or Swimming Pools.