Today — sit it out — wave, wind and surge pounding.
Sources & confidence
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine · How it works →
The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.
Our own model
Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.
Safety gates
It all folds into a single 0–10 score and one verdict: go or stay.
A forecast, not a guarantee — the sea has the last word.
Where to get in, where to hunt
Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
The day is picked above, in the hero. Here are that day's windows, the hour-by-hour map and the trends. Tap a window to break down the conditions.
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Bunbury, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
Every covered town has its own live forecast, cameras and entry points. Choose where you're diving.
What's missing? Tell us what you'd like to see — new spots, species, data or features. We read everything.
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
spearo.app folds wind, wave, swell period, visibility, tides, water temperature and risk into a single verdict — go to the spot or not. It computes 7 days ahead from open marine models (Open-Meteo, IPMA), with no sign-up and no accounts. Built for solo spearfishing off the rocks, where any mistake costs dearly.
Now live: 1391 spots across 205 stretches of coast — mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
See all spotsRelief and bottom type, tides, and the depths of each spot.
The models set the window. Whether you go in is read only at the water: count the sets, watch the surge on the entry. If in doubt, you don't get in.
Scouted entries, coloured by today. The colour is the sea state at the spot, not a guarantee: the wash and a slippery entry you judge on site.
Open the seafloor mapState-deployed recreational reef in 17 m of water, roughly 3 km off Bunbury: thirty concrete boxes of three metres in six clusters, with ninety smaller modules added in 2019. Boat only. No Western Australian marine park reaches these waters — the nearest is over 30 km south.
Google MapsPurpose-scuttled dive wreck of December 2003, sunk in 17 m about three nautical miles off Back Beach and well outside the port. The museum record lists her as not federally protected, so no heritage exclusion applies; the position matches the museum and the wreck guide to four decimals.
Google MapsThe ocean end of Bunbury's Back Beach strip, taken 85 m off the shoreline. This frontage is dead straight — the seaward normal holds 285–288° over 1.5, 3 and 5 km — so anything from the west quarter lands on it unfiltered and there is no corner to hide in. Sand with rock at the ends; a small, clean day only.
Google MapsSOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Check the cam BEFORE you leave. Foam, brown/green murk, or waves washing the entry rocks = No-go. At night/in fog the cam is useless — treat it as «unknown», NOT «green».
Bunbury has rock entry points such as Mindalong Beach, Bunbury Artificial Reef and Lena. Two coasts in one town: Koombana Bay and the Leschenault Inlet face north behind the port, while the Back Beach strip faces 289° straight into the Indian Ocean swell. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Autumn (Mar–May) — warm Leeuwin, less swell; summer afternoon sea breeze.
Summer 20–23 °C — 3 mm suit; winter 18–19 °C — 5 mm. Warm Leeuwin.
Easy–moderate: clear Leeuwin water; afternoon sea breeze.
Bunbury is in WA. No licence from the shore in Western Australia — but fishing from a boat needs the RFBL, and the WA dhufish sits under a demersal closure to spring 2027. Spearfishing on scuba is banned everywhere, rock lobster may never be speared, and marine-park sanctuary/green zones are no-take. See the guide for the state-by-state detail.
SpainRules change and vary BY STATE. Before heading out, check with your state's fisheries (NSW DPI, Fisheries QLD, VFA, DPIRD WA, PIRSA, NRE Tas, NT Fisheries) and the marine-park zoning map.
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