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
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Hopetoun, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
What's missing? Tell us what you'd like to see — new spots, species, data or features. We read everything.
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.
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: 3016 spots across 406 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 mapMary Ann Haven faces south, yet a shallow reef system 2 km wide cuts the waves to under 0.5 m. Seaward the bottom is shallow reef, sand and seagrass. The old jetty is gone; a rock groyne on the foreshore is now the fishing platform.
Google MapsShallow reefs shelter Whale Bay, which has a sandy floor and rock outcrops towards its western end. The larger reef off this coast lies about 13 km out from Twelve Mile Beach and is reached by boat.
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Rules as of now — 25.10.2026 13:26 (Australia/Perth)
SOLO 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.
Rules 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.
Hopetoun has rock entry points such as Mary Ann Haven reefs and Whale Bay. Hopetoun faces south and is open from the east-south-east round to the west-south-west, yet both marks are sheltered shore entries. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Summer (Dec–Mar) — brief calms between Southern-Ocean swells; cold.
15–20 °C — 5–7 mm suit; cold Southern Ocean.
Hard: Southern-Ocean swell, cold — for the experienced.
Hopetoun 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.
